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UTURE development of cow test-

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And if these men

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would not sign up for another year,

surely their neighbors wouldn’t either.

For one farmer will believe what an-

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By Morris Place





One of the best ways to get a man

interested is to get him to keep a

daily milk record sheet. Before long

he will begin to see where one cow

that he didn’t think much of is holding

up longer than some of his supposedly





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and will soon be quite interested in

his cows.



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adverse conditions they have to over-'

come. But when the man gets to think-

ing that his cows are better than they

really are, just take a. little conceit out

of him by telling him of the cows that

are doing better than his cows. Make -

the contrast the right strength to pro-

duce the desired results.



More ways of getting men interested

in cows are to get them to read the

dairy papers and see what other dairy-

men and dairy cows are doing, and

take them to see some of the more

modern dairies of the locality. The

aforementioned items are only general

rules and cannot be applied in every

case, for every member presents a dif-

ferent situation and they all require

individual treatment. It being up to

the tester to determine how to handle

each case.





Besides creating interest among the

farmers in their cows it is also neces-

sary to win their confidence. This is

another item that requires individual

attention. But there are a few things

that come in handy in all cases. One

of the most important of these is, don’t

tell the men more than you know. For

they will soon find this out and treat

the tester with mistrust and ill-feeling.



(Continued on page 296).





The Grandfather Farm





OME years ago, on a mid-summer



day, I was driving over a country



road on my way to a farmers’ pic-

nic. I expected to meet an assemblage

I had often faced ‘ before, and as I

drove I tried to thing of something

new to talk about. My thoughts shift-

ed from the speech to the audience

that would be made up mostly of old-

time acquaintances and friends and to

the appointed place of meeting under

the trees clustering around a southern

Michigan farm home. Before my mind

rose a picture of the old place. An

old-time farm house, mansion-like in

its proportions, standing on the edge

of one of Michigan’s little prairies,

with a background of broad fields and

burr-oaks. The farm had been owned

and tilled by four generations of one

family. The pioneer, the son who had

succeeded him, and the grandson, had

all been men, men of standing and

consequence. The fourth, a fine young

man, well schooled, mentally keen, up—

right and honest, excelling as a farm-

er, active and influential in the public

affairs of his neighborhood and his,

country; an ideal citizen.





The thought came to me that there

would be others like him in the audi-

ence, men and women with the same

traditions and ideals; for there were

other farms in the neighborhood owned

and lived on. by descendants of the

pioneers who had settled 'on them

some ninety years before.





As I thought of these things, my

subject was made plain to me, and I

talked that afternoon on “The Grand-

father Farm.” The ideas that cluster-

ed round the central thought seemed

to strike a responsive chord. Occa-

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Help; farming





By Jason Woodman





larger audience, I write about it.



In Michigan are many thousands of

farms that have passed from father to

son. This is a common occurrence. In

the older portions of the state there

are hundreds now in the hands of the

third generation, and in these southern

counties, settled almost a century ago,

we see here and there a farm still “in

the family,” owned and lived upon by

a great grandson of the pioneer who

transformed the wilderness into a

home.



It is worth while to inquire into some

of the reasons why these old family

places have not been sold, rented to

strangers or squandered, and to con-

sider whether these men, any of them,

have made a mistake by remaining in

the country. Is the community and

the state better off? These are inter-

esting topics for discussion.



I have known many of these farm-

ers, and something of their family his-

tory. I have noticed that they possess

in common certain traits of character.

They have good business judgment.

They are prudent and thrifty. They

are good workersand they love their

work. These are fundamental qualities.

Unless they are present in every gen- ‘

eration, the grandfather farm, as such,

ceases to exist. While it is true that

to a certain extent these characteris—

tics may be inherited, in the main they

are acquired by training and example.

The man who has succeeded his father

and, as often is the case, has paid off

other heirs and supported his parents

in their old age, was brought up to

work, and work steadily. Work is a.

habit and like most habits is formed,





if formed at all, while a boy is in his





teens. I have never known a man to

succeed 011 a farm or elsewhere for

that matter, who spent his youth in

idleness when out of school.





Hand in hand with the habit of

steady industry come the other cardi-

nal virtues, prudence, thrift and a

sense of responsibility, qualities that

almost entirely are the results of early

training. When a farmer who has

made good says, “My father and grand-

father owned and tilled this farm be-

fore me,” one may know without being

told how that man was brought up.





To many men a farm is solely a bus-

iness proposition, to be improved, on

1iched or skinned, moved onto or off

from, bought, sold, traded or rented,

according to the dictates of cold—blood-

ed business principles. But to the man

who has always lived 011 the acres he

tills, who was born, it may be, in the

very house in which he lives, who

takes his noonday rest beneath the

ample shade of trees his father plant-

ed, there exists an enduring love for

the land that is his. A love that. enters

into his daily labors and is a potent

inducement to keep his home attrac-

tive and his acres fertile. That love

for home and the land that is a perma-

nent abiding place is the foundation of

the truest and finest type of patriotism.





The man on the Grandfather Farm,

who is planning for a son to succeed

him, is not one of those “who have

yearnings for an equal division of un-

equal earnings.” He believes profound-

ly in “The sacred right to the owner-

ship of private property.” He is a con-

servative. He cannot be anything else.

He is for stability in government and





 





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fourth or fifth generation,” as the case





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experiments and dangerous innova-

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Theodore, Roosevelt has eulogized





“that pro- eminently typical American,

the farmer who owns his own farm ”

and has said, “In exery great crisis in

the past a peculiar dependence has had

to be placed on the farming popula-

tion, and this dependence has been jus~

tified ” If that can be said of our

iarmeis as a class, it may be repeated

with especial emphasis of the man

anchored to the soil that has been the

home of his family for generations.



Among the farmers I know are men

who have shown in the management of

their own affairs and in public matters.

an ability equal to that of the most

successful professional and business

men. \i'ondtn is sometimes expressed

why such men stay in the country.

I‘hey stay because they me what Eug-

one Davenpmt terms “country mind-





e(.” They deliberately prefer the

country and what it. gives, to human

ant—hills.





But you ask, “Would you have the

farmer's son of exceptional ability

bury himself on a farm?” If he has

ability and stability, if he has energy

and is mentally well trained, if he Ts

public spi1ited and has ambition, he

will not be buried. Look over the men

who flock to the agricultural college

“Fa1mers’ Week,” and others like

them. Are these men buried? I think

not.



And so the Michigan farmer of to-

day, if he is the right sort, can say to

“Become the second or' third or





may be, “to live on and own the fam-





ily homestead,” and say it without

feeling that he is asking a sacrifice.
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28, 1925





VOLUME CLXIV





DETROIT, FEB.

CURRENT COMMENT





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Cruel of the federal

child labor amend-



Farm ment to the constitu-

Parents? tion giving congress





authority over the

youth of the land until eighteen years

of age, has brought some interesting

criticism and comment. From this, one

would judge, that the commercialistic

‘ attitude of the farmer toward his chil-

dren is pronounced.



\Ve would guess that these people

have the idea that farm parents do

not love their children as do other

classes—that all the reason for a farm-

er rearing a family is to have some

one to milk cows, feed the hogs, or

weed beets.



But do we show our affection for a

thing when we deliberately give it

away?

that precious things do not get out of

our control.





No class can show greater loyalty to



educational programs than can the

farming classes. This is substantiated

by the records of our higher educa-

tional institutions where the attend-

ance of farm boys and girls have been

out of proportion to their numbers.

_ No, without doubt, the very opposite

‘is the case. The very reason for the

farmers opposing this amendment is

that they do love their children. They

would rather trust the care of their

children to themselves than to con

gress.





HE radio is the



Radio marvel of the

A (1 ages. It seems as if

n. it was the ultimate in

Reading the distribution of





knowledge and infor-

mation. It is a great step toward a

fuller brotherhood of man, for as we

interchange thoughts we come to know

each other better. And knowing each

,other better, we come. to like each

' other better.



The radio puts knowledge in the air,

free to everybody. All we have to do

is to tune in and pick out what we

want. But being in the air, it is eth-

ereal like the air. There is nothing of

permanency to it.



While the radio serves a very great

purpose, civilization would be in a. bad

situation if it was the only means of

record, for it is no record at all. It

was the carving on the stones, made

. thousands of years ago, which bring

'to light now the wonderful things



which happened then. It 'was the use





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is the invention of the printing press

which has made knowledge available

in permanent form. to a larger num-

ber of people.



It. is the permanency of the records

of the things which have happened

that have helped us. It is the perma.





nency of the records of things now

happening that will help future gener—‘





ations.



Furthermore,

standpoint, it is the repeated consider-

ation of good thoughts that makes

them valuable to us. The thinkers

have repeatedly thumbed the pages of

good books in delving into the very

depths of the thoughts expressed by

other great men.



The radio has not changed the

means of education, it has just helped

it a bit. To learn, still means to study,

and to study means to work, to read.

So if you wish to make wholesome, in-

spirational knowledge yours, thus ad-

ding to the richness of your life, we

hope you will not become a radio bug

to such an extent that you will neglect

your reading.



One man has wisely said, “Don’t let

your radio kill your reading, or you

will soon be a dead one.” On the oth-_

er hand, if you will have your radio

supplement your reading, it will make

your reading all the more valuable.





HE people of the





Burton’s state of Michigan

Death have been smitten

with exceeding sorrow



Mourned through the untimely





death of her illustrious

educator, Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton,

president of the University of Michi-

gan, at his Ann Arbor home a. week

ago Wednesday.



Dr. Burton was taken in his fifty-

first year. He had been ill since last

October, when, at a public gathering

at Hill Auditorium, he was stricken.



His remarkable record of building

at both the universities of Michigan

and Minnesota, was only surpassed by

his still more remarkable record as

an executive, teacher, friend and char-

acter builder in the institutions and

states where he served.



His loss is America’s loss. Believ-

ing that education dominated by high

ideals, was the hope as well as the

defence of our civilization, he put all

the energy of his brilliant mind to the

task. So deeply did he lay the foun-

dation of his work, and so well did he

build, that his policies will undoubted-

ly be projected far into the future, and

his influence reach out to coming gen-

erations.





T is safe to say that





Don’t the European Corn

Borer is going to be



Forget with us for a long

The Borer time. For this reason

it should not be for-



gotten. The economic influence of this





insect should be constantly in mind.



The damage that the insect can do

will not be felt the first year that he

reaches a community. Nor will this

damage attain its maximum the second

and third years. But all the time, un-

less checked, it will be laying the foun-

dation for completely putting the grow-

ing of corn to the bad. Such, at least,

has been the sad experiences of farm-

ers in territory infected for a number

of seasons.



But community effort will stay the

damage. It is possible to so disturb

the natural changes during propagation

that the increase of the pest will be

slow. Some are of the opinion that

where this work is well done the loss

will be almost negligible. The big

point is, however, that the work must

be well done.



It is a community job. No individual

can cope with it alone. His individual

w01k will help; but it will be only

half effective where neighbors are neg-

ligent.



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stone to better things socially.

hope that this might be true. But, if





the fight for our crops does not bring





these secondary values, we must fight

the bugs regardless.





HAT is a nut?



Just That is the ques-

tion. (With apologies



About to Shakespeare). But,

Nut: in anti~Shakespearian





language, a. nut is gne

who has gone bugs on a. subject. In

other words, a nut is one who has

spent more profound thought on a. cer-

tain subject than the average individ-

ual, and therefore, being ultra average,

qualifies one to the title of nut, really

a. modern title of distinction.





There are a few nut nuts‘inthis' coun-

try. They are strong advocates of a

more prevalent production of. that

sweet morsel of food which nature cov-

ers with a hard outer covering. It

seems that monkeys and squirrels have

realized the value of nuts more than

human beings. The squirrels, at least,

are taking such good careof our nat-

ural crop that we have to import about

$50,000,000 worth of nuts from other

countries to take carerof our even

moderate use of them.





Such a heavy importation ought to

awaken interest in nut growing, which

is just in its infancy. There are real

opportunities along this line, for there

are varieties in every section of the

country which can be developed into

good commercial sorts. “Our state

horticultural experts have found some

very promising kinds in this state

which are werthy of attention by the

laity.





Some have doubts that nut growing

can be developed to a. commercially

profitable basis. But we have a few

in this . state now who are growing

nuts successfully. One man, we know

of, produced thirty-four bushels of wal-

nuts from twenty-seven twelve-year-old

trees, which he sold at $9.00 a bushel.

An income of $300 from about an acre

of land is not had, most anyone would

admit, especially when the cost of pro-

duction is low.





We are nuts enough on the subject

to thing that it' has a good future. And

we feel that a man would leave his

children a good heritage if he would

plant a. nice grove of nut trees. Even

he might reap a reward from them. It

is our thought that it will be'profit-

able for a. farmer to be a. nut nut.





AD the Pied Pip-





A New er of Hameln

A . It walked the streets of

g r lcu ur' Ionia last Thursday





al Force and fluted as in times

of yore he would have

believed as thoroughly as ever, in the

bewitching power of his music. Men,

women and children came by the hun-

drcds from every direction, but they

came not to their destruction, as did

the rats and children of Hameln, but

rather to their edification.





It was the annual mid-winter festival

of the farm folks of that county. A

big program had been arranged, and

thoroughly advertised. Albert B. Cook,

J12, who heads the agricultural work

in the Ionia High School, was in

charge. The chief speakers of the oc-

casion were Aaron Sapiro, marketing

expert; Dr. Kenyon L. Butterfield, the

president of the Michigan Agricultural

College, and Dean Alfred Vivian, of

the Department of Agriculture of the

Ohio State University. The program

was carried out on schedule, with over

a thousand people enjoying the ad-

dresses.



Only a few weeks ago it was our

pleasure to be present at another

somewhat similar round-up in Barry

county. Among those who took the

leading part, was Mr. Townsend, agri-'

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a new agricultural educational force in

our midst. This force'has been devel-

oped quietly, but nevertheless, it has

already become a. real factor. '

We speak? of the Smith-Lever High

Schools. In the state there are now

were hundred of these. Already their

influence is being distinctly felt in the

farming communities where located.

Not only do they reach the boys and

rls who attend the high schools and

ake ,regular class work related to the





business of farming, but as at these





big meetings, they serve also to reach

the adults.



Seven years ago these schools were

started, but they have already attained

commanding stature. We can expect

larger things to come from them in

the future.



May we not see here the be-

ginning of that universal agricultural

education and culture, destined to put

the great business of farming not only

alongside of other businesses, but ac-

tually where it should be, in the van-

guard.





 





Put (m ’ Tate





AYBE you remember the game



what was called Put an' Take,

where you spin a top and it would say

“put three,” “take two,” or etc. It

ain’t one 0’ them games what you play

in sewin’ circuls, so maybe you men

don’t know nothin’ about it.



Well, anyhow, it was kinda interest-

in’, ’cause it’s so much like life. Even

if luck’s with "you so you could take

a lot, there’s times when you’d have

ta put, too. We can’t take somethin'

out ’a life all the time, without puttin’

somethin’ into it sometimes.



And the way it looks ta me we

sometimes gotta put somethin' into it

fer awhile before

we take anythin'

out. For inst, Jed

Jefferies put wild

oats inta his’n and

is now takin’ wild

oats out. And Sad-

ie Osborne put

the scorn 0' man

inta her’s and she

is takin’ the scorn

0’ man out now ’cause she is still Sadie

Osborne. Alice Summers put love inta

her life and there’s a dozen men what

wants ta love her.



But me not bein’ a preacher, will just

leave this for a suggeshun for some

preacher ta use fer helpin’ folkses

along in’their Sunday A. M. naps.



But me bein’ a farmer of no repute

kin say somethin’ about farmin’. Fer

inst, in farmin’ it’s just like Jed Jet's

feries. If you sow wild oats, you get

’em. I never yet seet a Sweedt potato

turn out ta. be 3. Irish one.



There’s lots 0' farmers like Tom VVil-

son, what don’t play the game fair.

They wanta take all the time, until

what’s ta be taken is all tooken- They

work harder’n the devil ta keep on

takin’. But they ain’t wise; they’re

just foolish.



Now I’m lazy but I think oncet in

a while—~when Sofie lets me. And I

figure it out this way. If I fed the

soil well, it’ll grow good crops fer me

at no more work than it’ll grow poor

ones. It’s just like this: two acres

well fed will give me as much as four

starved, and I don’t have ta work near

so hard on the two as on" the four. I

get Old Fert I. Lizer ta do lots 0’ the

work fer me.



I got a. friend what says when he

went ta high school he wasn't very.

bright and the Perfessor says ta, him,

“You better get a job as clerk on a

manure cart.” Seems ta. me the Per-

fessor was doin’ him a honor and

didn’t know it. ’Cause I think a-man

what is a good distributor o’ manure

is a public benefactor and he is think-

in’ once or twice fer hmiself, too.-



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' last fall. While it is too late now to



~ increase the wheat acreage; it is not



. too late to get more bushels There

is a way to make the average, wheat



- crop produce from five to ten bushels

more per acre. The cost of producing

thirty-bushel wheat is ,but little more

than that of producing, ten or fifteen-

bushel wheat. '



‘ The vaIUe of winter manuring for

improving the condition of wheat has

long been- recognized and practiced.

Applications of as little as four to. six

tons per acre are often very beneficial.

Where plenty of manure is available

it would certainly be good practice this

year to top-dress all winter wheat as

far as practicable. , 7«



An advantage in top-dressing with

manure is that it can be done almost

any time during the winter or early

spring, while the ground is frozen. In

fact, if the application is delayed until



, the ground thaws out, it will be found





clover, and do much to insure _a good

In many cases, the effect on

the clover 'will more than pay for the

fertilizer. Furthermore, if all of the

phosphoric acid and potash is not used





by the wheat crop there will be no '





loss, as a residual effect will be notic—

ed in the succeeding crops.



At the Ohio Experiment Station at

Wooster, spring top—dressing with

nitrogen on a silt loam soil gave a net

increase in value (over the cost of the

fertilizer), of $4.10 per acre, as an av-

erage for twenty-three years. In the

twenty-three—year period, ten years

were What could be called good wheat

years, and thirteen were poor wheat

years. 'In the good years, the average

increase for top—dressing was six bush-

els per acre; in the other‘years it was

8.4 bushels. Tests in threp other parts

of the state did not show quite such

good results, but in all cases except in

the bad wheat years in one test, wheat

at $1.50 a bushel more than returned

the cost of treatment. In these tests

the wheat had been liberally fertilized

at seeding time with phosphoric acid





 





 





very difficult to haul a spreader or

wagon over the field. There need be

no fear of loss of plant food from ma-

nure applied on Wheat during the win-

ter months. Most of the plant food, if

,leached out, will be retained by the

5 soil and become available to the plant

as soon as early growth starts.



Unfortunately, there is not always

enough manure to both top-dress

wheat and to plow under for the spring

crops. With a limited manure supply

most authorities agree that it pays to

plow under the manure for corn rath-

er than to apply it on wheat, for corn

is a heavy feeder on ammonia and pot-

ash, which plant foods are advantage-

ously supplied in manure.



Wheat, on the other hand, needs a

larger proportion of phosphoric acid.

On the average farm it will be profit-

able, therefore, to supplement manure

with fertilizers. Where it has been

impractical to apply the full amount

of fertilizer on wheat at seeding time

in the fall, there is an excellent oppor-

tunity to improve the wheat in both

yields and quality by spring applica-

tions of fertilizers. _



Usually only nitrogen or ammonia

fertilizers are thought of in connection

with spring top—dressing, and under



,some conditions, possibly on':'- the

nitrogen is needed. Under other con-

i (litions, however, both phosphoric acul

and potash, either alone or with am-

monia, will pay in a spring application,

although applying, these fertilizers at

seeding time may be the better prac-

tice. Certainly the soils. that are in

need of phosphoric acid and potash

should give a response to a spring ap-

plication of these fertilizing constitu-





, ents. ‘ ..

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‘pllcation of a. good grade of fertilizer





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and potash, and, therefore, these fertil-

izers were not applied in the spring

top-dressing.



Michigan experiments have not

shown quite such good results from

top-dressing the heavier soils with

nitrogen. On the lighter soils, how-

ever, top-dressing has been profitable.

Twenty—four trials on the lighter soils

of Michigan resulted in an average in-

crease of 5.34 bushels of wheat at a

cost of about $1.80 per acre for the

fertilizer. On Wheat that was not fer-

tilized in the fall it would no doubt be

profitable to apply a fertilizer contain-

ing both nitrogen and-phosphoric acid,

and under some conditions potash,

omitting the nitrogen on the heavier

soils.



Top-dressing applications should be

made early in the spring, just as soon

as the growth starts. On Michigan

wheat this will generally be about the

first to the tenth of April. There is

no hard or fast rule about the time of

application. It is only important to

get the fertilizer on before the new

growth is four to six inches high in

order to get the full ”benefit of the

plant food in the period of early

growth.



Application can be made most suc-

cessfully and most uniformly with a.

fertilizer grain drill, letting the hoes

or discs barely touch the ground. If

the tillering or stooling has not yet

started, the discs may be set to cut

into the ground one—half to three-quar—

ters of an inch without materially in~

juring the wheat.



Broadcast applications are entirely

practical if a grain drill is not avail-

able. Some end-gate seeders and lime

distributors can be adjusted to distrib-

ute 200 pounds per acre. Hand appli-

cation is,.of course, better than-none,





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1TH galleries and lines packed

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’ spectators, the house at noon

Ilfli'iday, February 20, by a sixty-one to

' enty-four vote, passed Representa-

e Culver’s resolution rejecting the

”posed federal child labor amend-

:ment. The final action was preceded

by more than an hour and a half of

debate and parliamentary maneuvers.

Speeches in opposition to the resolu-

than were made by Representatives

‘3 are Dykstra, of Grand Rapids; John

Crutchfield, of Saginaw, and Charles F.

, Height, of Lansing. Those supporting

' the resolution for the rejection of the

0‘ amendment included Representatives

VVlilliam J. Thomas, of Cannonsburg;

John P. Espie, of Eagle; John Holland,

, of Bessemer, and Gus A. Braun, of



Elkton.

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‘ N the eve of the final considera-



tion of the child labor amendment



in the house, a joint public hearing

was held in the senate chamber. For

more than three hours the battle rag-

ed merrily, the larger portion of the

time being absorbed by the friends of

the amendment. Passage of the pro-

posed amendment was urged by repre-

sentatives of such organizations as the

Michigan Congress of Parent-Teacher

Associations, The Michigan Sunday

School Council of Religious Education,

State Federation of VVomen’s Clubs,

Michigan Federation of Labor, League

of Women Voters and American Asso-

ciation of University Women. Many

of those testifying in favor of the

amendment did not state whom they

represented, but the feeling was prev-

alent that they were retained by some

organization. Leading attorneys and

jurists were numbered among this lat-

ter group. These people all declared

that child labor conditions in Michigan

were very good, but that this amend-

ment was needed to allow congress to

clean up the situations in more back-

ward states. They maintained that

child labor was a national problem and





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should be dealt with on a national

basis. They bitterly denounced those

opposed to the amendment, declaring

that they were ignorant and misled by

malicious propaganda. The whole ques-

tion of the ratification or rejection of

the proposed amendment was said to

be a question of the rich man’s dollar

against the poor man’s child.

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THE only voice raised against the



ratification of this so-called federal

child labor amendment was from the

representatives of the Michigan State

Farm Bureau and the Michigan State

Grange. Speaking for the first organ-

ization, Vice-president M. B. McPher-

son, of Lowell, declared we already

had about all the amendments that

could be enforced. He declared that

if‘this amendment were so drafted that

it would compel every boy and girl to

have some kind of useful employment,

he would give it his hearty support.

He pointed out that great care should

be exercised in administering remedies

for unsatisfactory conditions. Declar-

ing that the citizens of Michigan were

far from being unanimous in support‘

of this proposed, amendment, he point-

ed out that he not only represented

the Michigan State Farm Bureau, but

also the Kent County Board of Super-

visors and the State Association of

Supervisors, and that all of these or-

ganizations had gone on record with

strong resolutions in favor of rejecting

the federal amendment. Discussing

the value of useful employment as a

means in the development of charac-

ter, he contrasted the lives of three

boys who had worked hard while still

in the teen age, with three other young

men who had grown up in idleness.

The three men whom he held up as

examples of youthful industry were

President Calvin Coolidge, Governor

Alex J. Groesbeck, and Lieutenant-Gov-

ernor George \V. Welsh, while the

three who had grown up in idleness

were Harry K. Thaw, Loeb and Leo-

pold. Mr. McPherson maintained that





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this amendment was not drafted to fit

some state thousands of - miles away,

but that the one state aimed at agri-

culturally was Michigan, which had

been held up to the world as the worst

example of child labor employment on

the farms. '

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PEAKING out of an intimate con-

tact with farm people and rural

conditions, Mrs. Dora. Stockman, lec-

turer of the Michigan State Grange,

made a strong plea for the rejection

of the amendment. She declared that

the grange charges its officers to.“see

that children are not overworked or

abused and that the grange had jeal-

ously guarded the welfare of childhood

before many of the other organizations

represented at the hearing had been

thought of. She pointed out that she

had never seen a child injured with a

beet knife and urged the strict en-

forcement of school attendance laws

for the remedy of any evils that might

exist. Mrs. Stockman brought pro-

longed applause from the senators and

representatives when she said, “For

every boy and girl injured in Michigan

through overwork, there are two going

down to perdition through idleness.”

C. H. Bramble, of the executive com-

mittee of the State Grange, appeared

as an example of what resulted from

working on the farm at an early age.

He stated he had lived to be over

sixty years of age and didn’t think

«hard labor had ever hurt him. Resent-

ing the inferencethat the opponents

of the amendment were misled by

propaganda, Mr. Bramble stated that

in his observation many supporters of

the amendment had not thoroughly in-

vestigated the situation. He declared

he was in favor of limiting the em-

ployment of children, but said that

those back of this present amendment

had intended it to apply to farm chil-

dren and substantiated his statement

by showing that in the United States

Senate every amendment which had

been proposed to exempt the labor of





children on the farms and in the hem





had been voted down. ’

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BILLS seeking to bring about more

equitable tax conditions in Michi.

gan are being introduced in quantities.

To promote economy and efficiency it

is now suggested that _‘the present

three-man state tax commission be re

placed by a one-man commission. *

Representative Charles Evans, of

Tipton, has introduced a bill to

providerfor closer scrutiny of real es-

tate belonging to religious and benev-

olent societies before to): exemption

is allowed. He declares that now real

estate to the total value of $516,000,.

000 is being exempt from taxes, al-

though a considerable portibn of this

property is operated for actual com-

mercial profit.

Representative John Espie, of Eagle,

proposed that the stock of invest

rment companies be placed on the tax





roll.

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OTHER interesting bills to make



their appearance were as follows:

By Senator Frank Young, of Lansing,

a measure to provide for a better ob~

servance of Sunday by requiring the

closing of practically all retail stores

on that day; by Representative Frank

McKenzie, of Concord, 3. bill to give

quail permanent protection; by Sen-

ator George M. Condon, of Detroit, a

very strict anti-firearm bill intended





to reduce hold-ups and other crimes.

II! it *





IN an eiiort to check advance of the

. European Corn Borer in Michigan,

Representative Joseph Warner, of Yp-

silanti, has proposed a bill to give the

State Commissioner of Agriculture au-

thority to prepare and enforce regula-

tions for the control of this pest. The

.bill provides for an appropriation of

$25,000 to defray the state’s share of

the expense. If this bill is passed, a

considerable amount of federal funds

will become available to aid in the

control and eradication campaigns.





 





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LATE AGRICULTURAL NEWS





 





 





 





THE WILLIAMS-CAPPER BILL.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





HE Williams-Capper bill was re-



vised five or six times before the

committees concluded their hearings,

and the last edition is known as the

Haugen-Capper bill. It eliminates the

secretary of commerce from the Fe-

eral Marketing Board.



In making application for registra-

tion, the cooperative must show that

its financial standing and business

"methods are sound. It must use all

standards for agricultural products es-

tablished under the United States

warehouse act. All disputes must be

submitted to the federal board for ar-

bitration. It must permit the exami-

nation of its accounts and submit to

the heard not oftener than twice a.

year a sworn statement of its financial

condition.





McNARY-HAUGEN BILL ADVO-

CATED.





 





THE revised McNary Haugen bill

creating a farmers’ export corpora-

tion, was advocated by several farm

organization representatives. George

N. Peek, representing the American

Council of Agriculture, favored a spe-

cial session if necessary, to enact the

farm export corporation measure. He

also asked for a congressional investi-

. gation of the activities of Secretary

.613 Commerce Hoover in agricultural

affairs. He declared that the recom-





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mendations of the President’s agricul-

tural conference contained nothing

which had not already been advocated

by Mr. Hoover. Farm leaders do not

favor Mr. Hoover’s Views canoerning

agriculture, and will protest against

the domination of the department of

agriculture by him.





 





CROP MARKETING ACT AMENDED.





 





THE federal cooperative marketing



act of 1922 is amended so that the

marketing agencies composed of mid-

dlemen or processors cannot escape

the provisions of the Sherman and

Clayton acts to protect trade and com—

merce against unlawful restraints and

monopolies.





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SATISFIED WITH JARDINE’S AP-

POINTMENT.





 





M OST of the farm organization rep-

resentatives in Washington en

press satisfaction with the appoint-

ment of Dr. William M. Jardine, pres~

ident of the Kansas State Agricultural

College, to be secretary of agriculture.

The names of 180 men were present-

ed to the President as qualified for the

post, but the contest had narrowed

down to two, John Fields, of Okla-

homa, and Dr. Jardine. When the Kan-

sas delegation in congress united their

efforts upon Dr. Jardine his appoint~

ment was assured.





 





Dr. Jardine is a native of Idaho.

During his boyhood days he worked

on his father’s farm. After graduating

from the Utah Agricultural College,

he became manager of a large farming

company in Utah. He was made pres-

ident of the Kansas Agricultural Col‘

lege when Arthur Capper was gover—

nor, and has made an exceptionally

fine record as the head of that insti-

tution.



The name of R. WI Dunlap, an Ohio

farmer and breeder, has been present-

ed for the appointment to the post of

assistant secretary of agriculture.





 





TRUTH-IN-FABRICS LEGISLATION.





 





ASSURANCES come from Senator



Capper that the senate sub-com-

mittee considering truth-in—fabrics leg-

islation will report to the main com-

mittee a textile branding bill which

will require the manufacturers of wool-

en goods that contain shoddy to mark

them as to their true contents. The

bill would not require the branding of

goods made from all new wool. Sen-

ator Capper says the bill may not pass

during the session, but it will be in

position to be rather easily passed in

the next session.





MID-WINTER HORT PROGRAM.





 





THE Michigan State Horticultural

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March 11-12, 1925.

follows:





The program is as





Forenoon, March 11.

Address of welcome, James T. Milli-

ken, Mayor of Traverse City.

Response, George Friday, President

Michigan State Hort. Society.

Asparagus Growing, George Starr.

Fire Blight Control, H. A. Cardinell.

Afternoon.





Growing the Sour Cherry,



Cultural Practices and Pruning, A.

J. Rogers. .



Spraying and Harvesting the Crop,

W. P. Gray.



The Sour Cherry Outlook, W. A.

McCooI. , -



The Profitable Utilization of Sound

Under—grade Fruit, E. J. Holland, of

Chicago, Ill.



Evening.



. The Desirability of Combining Fruit

Growing with Dairying, E. O. Ladd.



Thinking Nationally Concerning

Sour Cherries, Moulton B. Goff, Sturg—

eon Bay, Wis.



Orchard Fertilization, (a motion pic-

ture). ‘



Morning, March 12.





Question Box.



,Direct Sales of Sweet Cherries, J.

W. Chapin. , .



The Sweet Cherry Discussion, Our

F.ppclilrtunity in Sweet Cherries, A. L.

inc . w





The Possibilities of Packing Sweet

Cherries, G. L. Burnham.



Control of Apple and Cherry Aphids,

L. G. Gentner.

o - Afternoon.



Certain Aspects of Winter Injury, F.

C. Bradford. " ‘ ‘ ' " ‘



Power, Sprayers—emeirf'mses “(and

Abuses, J. W. Freeman. ' ' ' '



The Spray Calendar for 19.25. .W. C.

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one require any special mathematical

ability to 'arrive‘at the correct conclu-

sion that the ninety—one ewes in a. 'sin-

gle year swelled Mr. Stuart’s cash on

hand by the not insignificant item of

$1,358.84. '



The, figures above are not isolated

instances of. success from live stock

operations in Northeastern Michigan.

They are perhaps typical, at least in

Gladwin county, which ships more live

stock than all other points on the

Mackinaw division of the Michigan

Central ' Railroad. -



Echopenhauer’s philosophical obser-

vation that pain is remembered long

after pleasure is forgotten, and that

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the, accounts to some, extent for the

prevalence in some quarters of the

conviction that thisland is not adapted

to live stock operations.



The case of one man who knew noth-

ing of the game purchasing 4,000

sheep, putting them on a rented tract

of land and hiring a manager at $5,000

a. year and expens’es——an enterprise

that was doomed to failure before 'it

started—illustrates the disastrous ‘ef-

fects which inevitably accompany a

lack of knowledge and the consequent

harrowing reports which have donerir-





reparable damage to the reputation of





Northeastern Michigan.



Mr. Stuart’s experiences and that of

many others accent the fact that a

man who understands his buSiness, se-

lects the right pasture, and is at all

skillful in buying and selling, can make

a pretty profit with either cattle or

sheep in Northeastern Michigan, the

calamity tales of sensationalists to the

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SELLING RADIO SETS.





 





A friend wishes me to build him a

radio set. I cannot afford to do this

for nothing. How can I lawfully sell

him a homemade one?—~B. E.





We are not aware of any legal re-

strictions as to the sale of such in-

struments.—Rood.





SELLING ESTATE.





 





If a man has the deed to a farm, and

the man dies, also his wife dies, can

the administrator sell the farm, if

there is a debt or mortgage, without

the heirs signing off?—A. J. T.



The real estate owned by the de—

ceased can be sold for his debts if,

and only if, there is not sufficient per-

sonal property to pay them, and then

only by order of the probate court.—

Rood.





YIELD OF BUTTER FROM CREAM.





 





How can I get butter out of cream?

Last winter I had ten pounds of but-

ter, often more, and from the same

amount of cream, and now only get

around seven pounds, and the butter-

milk looks very rich. Stir creamoften

and do not churn until cream is thick





and sour, butter comes in about one- .





half hour—B. H. H. .



There might be several reasons for

the cream not yielding so much butter

this winter as it did last. If you have

a different cow the cream may not

raise and form as solid at mass as it

did with the other cow, you have a

thinner cream.



Again, if the cream is not evenly

ripened it will not all churn out to—

gether because it takes longer to churn

sweet cream than it does sour or rip—

ened cream. This might be the reason

for the buttermilk looking rich. Only

the fat in the ripened cream being

gathered into masses.



Painstaking care must be exercised

where one makes butter from a single

cow and the small batches of cream

have to be accumulated for a churning.

The last batch of cream must be rip-

ened as well as the first, and of the

same temperature if you want to get

exhaustive churning. The cream should

be kept in a cool place and every time

a new batch of cream is accumulated.

it should be thoroughly mixed with the

old. The last batch of cream before

churning should be thoroughly mixed

with all the rest and left to stand for

a day before attempting to ripen the

whole mass. Then bring the cream





 





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jar to a warm room, set it in a tub of

warm water and stir it frequently until

the whole mass is at about seventy

degrees temperature. Now leave it

with an occasional stirring, for twenty

four hours. The whole mass ought to

be fairly evenly ripened. Now cool to

sixty degrees and churn. The butter

ought to come in about half an hour

and you should have a fairly exhaus-

tive churning.





DETERMINING VALUE AND

WEIGHT. ‘





 





I have two silos on the farm which

I worked the past year. Now I have

given up the farm to the landlord and

I would like to know what the ensilage

is worth per ton, which he wants to





 





buy, also how to measure the contents

of said silos. One is 10x36 feet, which





I haven’t opened, the other is 10x30.





feet, which I have fed down about six

or seven feet. Therefore, if I have

the rule to measure ensilage I think

we can work it out, but the price is

what I want to know, and how it is

based—A. G.





There is practically no established

price for silage and no market for it.

We must get its comparative value by

comparing it with some well-known

food. Timothy hay is the same kind

of a food as silage, that is, it is very

similar in analysis and contains the

essential food nutrients in much the

same proportion. Analysis seems to

show that timothy, pound for pound,

is worth twice as much as silage, or

silage is worth half as much as tim-





 





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is $10 per ton in your barn, then you

should get $5.00 per ton for your

silage.





To determine the weight of your sil-

age first get the cubical contents of

the silo in cubic feet. To do this find

the area of the surface by multiplying

the square of the diameter by 3.1416

and multiply this area by the depth of

silage in feet, which gives the cubic

feet of silage in the silo. Multiply

this by thirty—five, the average number

of pounds in a cubic foot of silage.

Now divide this by 2,000, the number

of pounds in a ton, reducing it to tons.

The number of tons, of course, multi-

plied by the price per ton gives the

value.





The only speculative thing about this

is the weight of a cubic foot of silage.

It is very evident that the weight of

silage will vary with its depth. The

lower portion of the silage will be

more compressed by the weight from

above and hence of greater weight.

The silage will be lightest on top and

gradually increase in weight as you go

to the bottom.



The Iowa Experiment Station has

actually weighed the silage at different

depths and ascertained its correct

weight, but instead of figuring the ac-

tual weights at different depths it will

be approximately correct to figure the

average weight for a thirty-foot silo,

which is thirty-five pounds.





A HAY DISPUTE.





 





A. lets B. have two fields of hay to

put up. B. is to put up A.’s field of

hay first and then put up his field. B.

put up A’s field and neglected to put

up his field until the last of September.

Is there any way that B. can claim

part of A.’s hay, A. having forbid B.

putting up his field at the right time

of year. Is there any time tame hay

should be put up?~Subscriber.





If there was a definite understanding

as to how the hay crop was to be

divided before cut, B. would have no

claim on A.’s share.



There, no doubt, is a proper time of

year to harvest hay, and due to com—

mon practice, one would assume that

this time would be within certain defi-

nite and reasonable limits. If B. at-

tempted to cut the hay out of Season

and A. could show that the meadow

would be damaged by so doing, he

would have a right to enter complaint.

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products show in Pennsylvania. Nev-

er, to our knewledge, have so many

devices been brought together on a

farm. and set to work. ‘The house,

barn, sheds, yard, dairy, workshop,

garage, pump house, were all equipped.

In the house was every known elec-

trical convenience and equipment for

the kitchen, dining room, living room,

bedroom, bathroom and laundry.



There was no thought that any farm-

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venient to equip his farm as complete-

ly as shown on this occasion. The

idea was to bring under the roofs of

one farmstead the outstanding electri-

cal achievements of practical signifi-

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ACCIDENTAL LESSONS.





 





UCH new knowledge comes to us



by accident. It was no plan of

Sidney Smith, an average of the good

farmers of Gratiot county, that. his

team should run away with a few

bags of fertilizer on the wagon. But

they did; and as they raced across the

unfenced oat field of neighbor Jim

Warner, this fertilizer was scattered

in the wake of the wagon.



Over the course where the team ran,



the oats grew somewhat higher, show-

ed stronger stalk, had larger, better

filled heads, and neighbors estimated

that it would yield fifty per cent more

than the grain where no fertilizer fell.

Warner is now sold on the idea that

fertilizer is good for crops, at least,

under some conditions; a position he

would not admit before this happened.

-—R. Digger.





WHAT MADE OUR BIG CORN CROP.





 





I HAVE just discovered the probable



reason for one side of our corn field

yielding so big a corn crop last year,

while the other did only fairly well.

Unfortunately we did not measure the

yields of the two parts to learn the

average per acre; but on a conserva-

tive estimate, I judge, it went twenty

bushels more per acre on the better

half of the field.



In looking over some reports from

the Ohio station, I find that it requires

about 150 pounds of nitrogen to grow a

corn crop. And, according to the same

source of information, turning under a

good stand of sweet clover early in

the spring puts in the soil about 175

pounds of this peppy element. I, un-

consciously, did this very thing on the

portion of the field that yielded heavy.

Right to the row you could see where

the sweet clover had grown. In turn-

ing the clover down we added ample

nitrogen to keep the corn coming. I

want, therefore, to put in my testi-

mony in favor of this crop for pepping

up the soil for corn, and, no doubt,

almost any other crop that is produced

here in Michigan.——D. Dinwiddie.





SEED CORN TESTS ARE DISAP-

POINTING.





 





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to be for us. This is rightly true when

it comes to the matter of sorting out

the seed corn. Apprehension regarding

the quality of available seed corn in

this locality is all too true. It is poor

stuff, speaking generally; testing from

nothing up to fifty per cent in many of

the early tests made. Should we learn

right away that the corn We are de-

pending upon for seed is no good, the

opportunity is still open to secure

some elsewhere. But, if we do not

know until planting time, or even lat-

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“The cost of material for dusting is about twice as great as for liquid

spraying, but the cost of making an application of dust is much less than

for one of spray. In general, the total cost per tree is about the same.

Such a, statement, however, does not take into consideration the time and

labor saved, nor that the orchard may receive a complete treatment at

a critical period."





Ordinarily the grower thinks of his material and his labor as the two

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spray. But when he sprays, he pays for 6 or 7 times as much gasoline

and oil. Much more interest and depreciation on his investment and

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Then remember dusting gives the highest finish to apples.





N. Y. Experiment Station





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unexcelled by the fruit from any of the other treated plots. Jour, Econ.

Ent. Vol. 17, No. 2.”





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Most of these culls were caused by aphis.

These insects are very destructive. They

not only stunt and deform the fruit, but

also retard tree growth and help spread scab

and blight.



Damage/b a his can be prevented by

spraying with lBlall’s Nicotine Sulphate.

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Being a vegetable extract, it does not

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By H. A. Cardinell





NASMUCH as the spraying program

in Michigan in 1924 netted'less than

fifty per cent control of apple scab

for a state average, the subject of

spraying dominates the plans for 1925.



Following such test years many

growers are tempted to question the

reliability of the brand that was used.

Rarely is a standard brand at fault

and whenever a grower finds a neigh-

bor that had good success with the

same brand, he next turns to question

whether or not the college spraying

calendar was adequate for the condi-

tions of such a season. Usually the

recommended calendar was not at

fault, but the interpretation of the cal-

endar was too loosely managed.



Spray Calendar Help.



The state spraying calendar has not

been definite in stating the time or

condition when each application should

be completed. The 1925 spraying bul-

letin corrects this weakness. For ex-

ample: the pink application within a

radius of two miles in a. single county

varied. nearly three weeks in 1924. In

addition to that fact, many growers

were applying the pink application

when the writer was making the calyx

application in a demonstration or-

chard, and this delayed schedule was

carried through the season until the

definite date was announced by the

department of entomology when the

second brood codling moth appeared

in the cages of that county.



This brings us to the most important

point in spraying management—time-

liness of application. All the remain-

ing points that will be discussed in

this paper are secondary considera-

tions and remain of minor importance

unless proper timing of each applica-

tion has been accurate. If the schedule

is correct then other features may be

of economic value.



Second only to timeliness is the

quantity of material applied to each

tree. What is the proper quantity that

should be applied to each tree? Tables

have often been presented showing the

range of the average number of gal-

lons that should be used for different

ages of average trees of each fruit.

There is nothing definite in such ta-

bles although they have been useful to

beginners. The proper quantity should

be the number of gallons applied to

trees that will guarantee adequate

coverage or protection during test sea-

sons that are favorable for the devel-

opment of pests. When the age of the

tree is divided by two the resulting

figure is nearly correct to represent

the number of gallons that a tree

should receive as an average for each

application for the entire season.



Pressure.



If the spraying schedule used is ac«

curately timed and the quantity of ma~

terial applied to each tree throughout

the season is suflicient to guarantee

protection, of what value is increased

pressure? Hitherto unpublished data

from the spraying demonstration con-

ducted in the orchard owned by Joseph

Smeltzer & Sons in Benzie county,

Michigan, in 1923 throws some light

on this subject.



In this test three different pressures

were used, viz.: 190 lbs, 250 and 350

lbs. The average amount of spray

used in each case was 14.2 gallons. The

190 lbs. pressure showed 86 per cent

control; 250 lbs., 92 per cent, and 350

lbs, 95 per cent. Which indicates that

the higher pressure was best.



In 1924, five methods of application

were tried in the Trevor Nichols or-

chard in Allegan county.



Methods Used.



Row one was sprayed by two oper-

ators, one from the top of the tank

facing the. wind, but always on the

east side of the trees, and the other

from the ground spraying the inside

as well as the outside of the tree, and





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completing it at one operation. This

method resulted in sixty-three percent

of the tree-run crop of fruit classified

as free from scab, worms, sting, aphids

injury and all other insect blemishes.



Row two. was sprayed by tank and

ground operators as in the case of

row one, except that no inside spray-

ing was done. This method resulted

in sixty-six per centof the crop free

of injuries from the above mentioned

causes.





Row three was sprayed by one op

erator standing on tank. The trees

were completed by driving on one side

and back on the other. This method

gave sixty-three per cent clean fruit.



Row four, sprayed by one operator

from the ground and spraying the in-

side as well as the outside portions of

the tree, gave sixty-five per cent clea

fruit. '



Methods Equal in Results.



Row five was sprayed by tank and

ground operators, spraying the inside

and the outside of the tree, but with

the wind,,thus leaving the opposite

side of the tree to be sprayed when

the wind changed. Often, however, if

the wind did not change, or subside

within three or five days the other side

was sprayed, notwithstanding. This

method resulted in sixty-seven per cent

of the tree-run crop free of pest blem-

ishes.





For the sake of comparison it can

be said that the percentage of clean

fruit resulting from all of the methods

was equal, since it ranged from sixty-

three to sixty-seven per cent, well with-

in experimental error in gathering rec-

ords from 75,000 apples that were ex-

amined to get these records.



If the control was about the same,

what is to be said for or against each

method.





Differences in Methods.



Row three, tank only operator, tied

with row two, outside only, two oper-

ators, for the lowest time requirement

in spraying each of the trees; but the

tank only (standing atop the tank)

method required six gallons less mate-

rial than in the case of two operators,

even though only the outside of the

tree was sprayed in row two.



Row four, ground only—inside, and

outside spraying—one man, was sec-

ond lowest in the quantity of material

applied but required an average of one

more minute of time for each tree.



Row two (previously compared with

row three) tank and ground outside

only, was third in quantity require(

ment and tied for honors for time.



Row one, tank and ground inside and

outside spraying, was the highest in

time of any of the above four methods,

but required fifteen gallons more than

did the lowest quantity, row three,

sprayed from the tank by one oper-

ator, and required two minutes more

time per tree. '



Procedure Must Be Determined.



Row five, tank and ground; inside

and outside; with the wind, is in a

class by itself because it was the only

method requiring that portions of the

tree remain exposed for several days

hoping for the wind to change. It was

tied for the highest time requirement,

and required nearly as much material

to spray one side of the row as the

same two operators used in row two

spraying the entire outside of the tree.



Any two application methods of

spraying is apt to result in overlapping

and with an almost unconscious knowl-

edge that the remainder of the tree

will have no protection from that ap-

plication the tree is sprayed from

every possible point of vantage and

as a result the trees under this method

received two-thirds covering from each

side, which undoubtedly accounts for

the extreme and uneconomical quan-

tity that resulted from this method.
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HE Mehominee County Agricultur-



‘ al SchOol’is serving farmers by



- testing their seed. The service is free.

Three Menominee county farmers have

raised certified Wolveriné‘oats, this

past year. Their crop is being taken

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T VVENTY Hermansville women have

organized a class in 'art fiber weav-

ing. County Agricultural Agent Karl

Knaus is the instructor. The agent is

prepared to organize similar classes in

other communities of the county, he

announces,'should there be a demand

for them. The work is connected with

the rural schools.

WILL BUILD U_P GRANGE MEMBER-



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T the recent meeting of. the Mich-

igan State Grange, A. I. Thomp-

son, of Iron Mountain, was made

deputy state master for the Upper Pe-

ninsula. Mr. Thompson is developing

a program for rejuvenating grange

,. work in the peninsula and has several

workers on the job for this purpose.





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crates were shipped from that point

alone and that the returns for the

whole peninsula amounted to about

one-half million dollars. The express

rate to Chicago was $2.25 per cwt.,

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hay were also shipped from this point.

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well balanced. The local bank is now

reported to be cashing creamery

checks amounting to $200 daily and

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should be removed and the carbon

thoroughly cleaned out. This can be

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od is scraping. A narrow putty knife

or a stout screw-driver or a regular

bearing scraper will make excellent

tools for this work. Spark plugs should

be removed and carbon deposits clean-

ed from them also.





Valve springs should be taken out,

dipped in a can of kerosene and wiped

clean. The valves should then be care

fully ground to a good seat, for on

them depends, to a large extent, good

compression.





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adjustments have been made.



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clogged radiator, a loose fan belt or a

faulty pump for the cause. Every trac-

tor operator should have a spare fan

belt on hand.





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them well in gasoline or kerosene. Af-

ter wiping them with a clean rag, they

should be well smeared with a good

grade of grease and replaced and

drawn up 31:11eg at the same time. A

front wheel with a loose roller or ball

bearing will soon be ruined, especially

if it should be the wheel which runs

in the furrow. It is always a good plan

to inspect the furrow heel of any trac-

tor after every day’s run in the field.



The cannon bearings or outer bear-

ings of the rear axle should be well

supplied with fresh grease. Some trac-

tors are now equipped with pressure

lubricating devices which enable the

operator to force the lubrication td the

most remote portion of the bearing.



Another item for inspection is the

frame. All nuts and bolts should be

given a. turn or two with a wrench to

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Wheel lugs should be tightened in the

same way. Should a wheel lug be un-

duly bent or broken it is best to re-

move it and either have it straight-

ened or replaced with a new one.



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RADIO A BOON TO FARMERS'

FAMILY.





 





WHEN we bought our radio we in<

tended it more for our own use

than for the children. However, it has

helped us all so much more than we

could possibly have anticipated. We

now have no trouble Whatever in keep-

ing our older children home at nights

and a good many of the neighbor chil-

dren, too, spend their evenings at our

house, enjoying the radio with us.

Another phase of the benefits deriv-

ed is the way the little tots hurry into





their nighties to sit on Daddy’s knees.





while the bedtime stories are coming

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For myself I find that the darning

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and without knowing I have been

working, I find myself at the bottom

while enjoying the music from all over

our United States.





One thing that has worried us in liv-

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religious life of our children. Now we

all enjoy several sermons every Sun«

day, and we visit around at all differ-

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I would say that the radio is a boon

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Stambaugh, Mich.





 





The great fault with our marketing

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price below what conditions wa 1.ar1ted



The radio is changing this situation.

Through it the farmer not only se-

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one of our local dairymen who till I was past thirty. .

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comes back with: “Homer was the

guy Babe Ruth made famous.” That’s

a good one, and I’ll say this for the

cow-guardian: he wasn’t no ace when

it come to the classics but it looked

to me like he knew his sport sheet

and, it’s my opinion that the little old

sport sheet is one of the best and

cheapest elixirs of youth we can buy.

As Grantland Rice says: “Sport is

. youth, and youth’s eternal.”



There’s lots of us buzzards that’s

getting too old and stiff to draw much

applause from the howling mob if we

were to try our hand at polevaulting

or hockey, and the only chance we got

of keeping in the running and finding

out Who’s who in the sport realm is by

reading the athletic column. We

shouldn’t devote all our reading to do-

ings of the grange. We should read

something about the achievements of

a much better known Grange, namely,

“Red,” versatile half-back of the Uni-

versity of Illinois. ,No, I don’t know

the gentleman, nor I’ve never had the

privilege of watching him in action,

but I get a big kick out of reading the

papers after one of his performances

and I imagine myself as a young buck,

between the ages of fifteen and eight-

een, playing left tackle on our little

high school team. Young again? You

bet, and it’s a great tonic.



But this ain’t supposed to be a lec-





ture; it’s a lyric poem. If you remem—,





her a short while ago I put you to sleep





by relating a few cold facts about our‘





Northern Michigan winters, and this

evening, if the editor is willing, I will

lull you with a travesty on how some

of us boys, who are lucky enough to

own farms bordering a. lake, put in the

few idle hours of Winter. So behave,

for a few minutes, and we’ll introduce

our atheltic director, Mr. Jack Frost.

Step out, Jack, and meet the bunch.



I gets a letter the other day from a

friend down in Peoria, Illinois, and

among other flattering compliments he

says: “What in the world do you do

for entertainment up there in Snow

Man’s Land in the winter?” Some of

those old roosters make me tired, hon-

estly. They think we’re grizzlys and

hibernate after November 1. This baby

who wrote that query is a doctor and

he thinks the only thing ice is for is

to reduce a swelling. It will also pro-

duce a. swelilng if you hit it head-on,

like I done the first time I shook hands

with a pair of skates. Ain’t they a

wicked little thing for a rookie to get

mixed up with? Where I come from,

the only place we ever saw ice was in





bucks gliding along without no effort

whatever and, if they wanted to give

her a little more gas, why, they’d just

rig up a. sail out of an old shawl or a

horse blanket, hold that outfit up so

the wind would hit it good and, be-

lieve me, they’d step right out. This

is the first thing I did, or didn’t. I

hadn’t gone ten yards before I collied-

ed with a congealed piece of the lake

and' right away I heard ’em sing.

They’ll tell you, these astronomers,

that stars are billions of miles away

and that it takes whole years for them

to get down to where me and you are.

They’re wrong. There was a couple

hundred planets within a few feet of

my observatory ten seconds after I

done my dive. If I’d only known, I

could have rigged up in a football out-

fit; but to go out there with nothing

on your head, or in it, and with just a

thin pair of trousers on, why, you’re

just flirting with a nurse, that’s all.

No, sir, I’m too old for such toys and

the only skates I’ll get on again will

be horses. In that case you’ve at least

got soft ground to fall on.



I never yet took a tumble in the

dark where nobody could see me.

They’ve always been. public events

and, on this occasion, one of the hy-

enas present managed to quit laughing

long enough to suggest that I trade

them for a pair of snowshoes. Now,

snowshoes can hardly be classed as a

winter sport. It’s almost a necessity.

A snowshoe has the same relative sig-

nificance to our mode of travel as gas-

oline has to the people in Akron. The

first time I ever saw a pair of snow-

shoes I started looking for the tennis

balls. Say, couldn’t a guy play a

peach of a net game with one of them?

You could reach all over the court.

Anyway, they’re a good, clever insti-

tution and I’ll bet the fellow who in-

vented them has made enough so as he

can be wearing patent leather pumps

in southern California. .



But really, as I said before, this hard-

ly falls under the caption of “sports.”

The only sport there is to it is watch-

ing the other fellow learn. One thing

that’s fond of our winters is chillblains

and to prevent them from getting too

much of a foot-hold (laughter) we wear

two or three pair of wool sox, a pair

of felts with arctics on top of them.

It’s quite a feet to carry all that and

then you go to work and add a yard of

two or snowshoe and it makes each

one of your dogs too heavy for third

zone parcel post. But a little half-mile



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jaunt would seem like a trip around

the world if you had to wallow through

a couple or three feet of snow, so

here’s more power to the snowshoe

manufacturer. They ought to get their

heads together, though, and try and

invent some kind of a rig for horses.

If you want to take a shot at it some

time, pick out some place where the

snow ain’t very deep, because if your

snowshoes should ever get foul of each

other in a big drift it would take more

than coaxing to get you out.



\Vell, that’s that.



Now, take a look at the picture show-

ing the little houses on the ice. When





,you get 100 of them all within a radi-

us of a mile, you’ve got the capital of .





Iceland right at your front door. It’s

the winter residence of our male popu-

lation—the Pglm Beach of our county.

Inhospitable looking little igloos, ain’t

they? And all built alike. If you were

to go up to Jones’ farm and ask for

Mr. Jones and his wife would tell you

he was down in his shanty, wouldn’t

you have a sweet time locating him?

There are no streets, not even a alley,

and none of the houses are numbered.

I don’t see how even the owner can

distinguish his own, and lots of them

can’t, either. They have to tie cans

or pieces of different colored strings

to the doors as a means of identifica-

tion. With town houses, it’s different.

One will be built of brick, another of

logs; one is a colonial type or a Sibel“

ian bungalow; there’s an ash tree in

one yard and an ash can in another;

one house boasts an Airdale, another

a, goat, and so on. But these shacks

are all designed by the same firm of

architects, Messrs. Hook & Sinker,

and it almost takes a bloodhound to

locate the one you want.



It don’t require a carpenter to build

one; a guy wants to be a paper hang-

er. They are made of pasteboard box-

es which are flattened out and tacked

on a wooden framework. The wheel-

base of these one-story apartments is

4X6 feet, with a hole cut in the floor

to let the fish come in. They are

made light in weight but dark in color,





‘and are built on runners so as you

‘can run down to the other end of the





lake in a hurry if you hear the fish

are biting down there. In each kennel

is a little stove, usually constructed of

a five-gallon cream can, with cave

spoting for the chimney.



I’ve attempted to give you the low

down on what our fish shanties look

like, and if you’ll stay with me a little

while longer I’ll tell you how the fish

are caught. But remember; once a

fisherman, always a liar.



If you’re going to fish, slide your

shanty out in deep water, say about

fifty to 100 feet. Cut a hole in the ice

and set the shanty over the hole. Bait

the hook, 101 it down to within a foot

of the bottom and keep it moving up

and down. The kind of fish we go

after is the lake trout and they are

the wisest, the reason being, so they

say, because they’re always found in

schools. You can generally tell a

trout’s bite—wtwo longs and a short“

and when you get that signal you want

to give him the hook. Nine times out

of ten you’ll miss him, as it takes prac-

tice, but I’ve seen some fine catches

made in a. single afternoon.



If you’d rather try your hand at

spearing, slide the shanty in to more

shallow water, from eight to twenty

feet deep. By having the interior of

the fish house all darkened, you can

easily see the bottom, but the fish can’t





(Continued from page 281)..





see you. ‘Spearing requires a decoy,





which is a little artificial minnow you

dnopdown the hole and keep him mov-

ing up and down. Honestly, you’d

think all fish were suckers, they're so

easily fooled. All of a sudden a' big

one will come racing in after the decoy

and all you have to do is to drop the

spear on him. Sounds easy, doesn’t it?

Try it. I’ve seen guys who can heave

a. mighty mean spear miss them time

after time.

and patience, which is something‘l

ain’t got.



Now, that’s about all there is to this

fishing deal. Henry VanDyke, or Isaac

Walton could have written a couple

of volumes on it, but I farm for a liv-

ing. Come up some week end and try

your luck, but don’t bring a bamboo

fishing pole nor a can of worms.



Don’t laugh at this one, but did you

ever see a skii jump? I think there

must be a little Scandinavian blood in

me because I can get the greatest kind

of a kick out of watching an event of

that nature. To see those snow-birds

come thundering down an iced incline,

100 feet high, all crouched down till

they reach the end of the chute, then

straighten up and shoot right out into

nothing but space and land way down

the hillside. Cold turkey! What a

thrill you get! They tell me those

babies attain a speed of a mile a min-

ute. When I move that fast I want

something under me besides a couple

of barrel staves. Some of them will

take terrific tumbles, too, and laugh

about it. I seen one fellow leave the

chute like a 44 bullet leaves its hang-

ar, turn two complete somersaults

away up in the air and light in a heap

just like he’d been dumped there by

a snow shovel. And he gets right up,

reclimbs to the top of that slippery

sluiceway and comes flashing down

again, this time maintaining his bal-

ance. .



One of those eagles, I’ve forgotten

his name, but I’d gamble it ended in

“son,” yumped 152 feet, which at that

time was a world’s record.

day one. of his countrymen hopped off

for a mere208 feet. In a few years

they can probably jump right across

from Norway. I’ll never try to break

any of their records. Not me. I

haven’t a single friend among theun-

deriaking fraternity.



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PRUNING APPLES.





HOW much to prune and in What



way to prune apples are questions

which will soon occupy the thoughts of

many l'i'uit growers. Horticultul‘ists

at the State Agricultural Experiment

Station at Geneva. have conducted

pruning experiments with apples for a.

number of years and have accumulated

information on this subject, much of

which is now available in a. station

bulletin vhich may be had free of

charge for the asking.



The pruning tests were made with

Baldwin, Boiken, Esopus, Hubbardsion,

McIntosh, Spy, Greening, Rome, and

King, all good standard varieties. The

comparison of little and much pruning

was made with trees all headed about

two feet above the ground when set

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A huge crocodile captured in the Everglades of Florida, securely

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transported him to a north ern zoo.
‘ ELINA had beenm‘arrled almost

three years When she received a

, letter from Julie Hempel, now mar--

« ried. It had been sent to the Klaas

Pool farm and Jozina had brought it

to her. Though she had not seen it

since her days at Miss Fister’s school,

Selina recognized with a little hasten-

ing heart-beat the spidery handwriting

with the shading and curleycues. Seat-

ed on 'her kitchen steps in her calico

dress she read it.



Darling Selinaz— , »



I thought it was so queer that 'you

didn’t answer my letter and now I

know you must have thought it queer

that I did not answer yours. I found

your letter to me, written long ago,

when I was going over Mother’s things

last week. It was the letter you must

have written when I was in Kansas

City. Mother had never given it to

me. I am not reproaching her. You

see, I had written you from Kansas

City, but had sent my letter to Mam~

ma to mail because I never could re-

member that funny address of yours

in the country.



Mamma died three weeks ago. Last

week I was going over her things—a

trying task, you may imagine—and

there were your two letters addressed

to me. She had never destroyed them.

Poor Mamma . . .



\i’ell, dear Selina, I suppose you

don’t even know that I am married. I

married Michael Arnold of Kansas

City. The Arnolds were in the pack-

ing business there, you know. Michael

has gone into business with Pa here in

Chicago and I suppose you have heard

of Pa’s success. Just all of a sudden

he began to make a great deal of mon-

ey after he left the butcher business

and went into the yards—the stock-

yards, you know. Poor Mamma was

so happy these last few years, and

had everything that was beautiful. I

have two children. Eugene and Pan-

line.



I am getting to be quite a society

person. You would laugh to see me.

I am on the Ladies’ Entertainment

Committee of the World’s Fair. We

are supposed to entertain all the visit.-

ing big bug3——that is the lady bugs.

There! How is that for a joke?



I suppose you know about the In-

fanta Eulalie. Of Spain, you know.

And what she did about the Potter

Palmer ball. . . .



Selina, holding the letter in her

work-stained hand, looked 3up and

across the fields and away .. where

the prairie met the sky and c osed in

on her; her world. The lnfanta Eu-

lalie of Spain. She went back

to the letter.



\Vell, she came to Chicago for the

Fair and Mrs. Potter Palmer was to

give a huge reception and ball for her.

Mrs. P. is head of the whole commit-

tee, you know, and I must say she

looks queenly with her white hair so

beautifully dressed and her diamond

dog-collar and her black velvet and all.

“'ell, at the very last minute the In-

fanta refused to attend the ball be—

cause she had just heard that Mrs. P.

was an innkeeper’s wife. Imagine! The

Palmer House, of course.



Selina, holding the

hand, imagined.



It was in the third year of Selina’s

marriage that she first went into the

fields to work. Pervus had protested

miserably, though the vegetables were

spoiling in the ground.



“Let them rot,” he said.

stuff rots in the ground.





letter in her





“Better the

DeJong wom-





en folks they never worked in the

fields. Not even in Holland. Not my

mother of my grandmother. It isn’t





women.”



Selina had regained health and vigor

after two years of wretchedness. She

felt steel—strong and even hopeful

again, sure sign of physical well-being.

Long before now she had realized that

this time must inevitably come. So

she answered briskly, “Nonsense, Per-

vus. Working in the field's no harder

than washing or ironing or scrubbing

or standing over a hot stove in August.

“'omen’s work! Housework’s the hard-

est work in the world. That’s why

men won’t do it.”



She would often take the boy Dirk

with her into the fields, placing him

on a heap of empty sacks in the shade.

He invariably crawled off this lowly

throne to dig and burrow in the warm

black dirt. He even made as though

to help his mother, pulling at the root-

ed things with futile fingers, and sit-

ting back With a bump when a shallow

root unexpectedly yielded.





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“Look! He’s a. farmer already,” Per-

vus would say.



But within Selina something would

cry, “No!’ No!”



During May, June, and July Pervus

worked not only from morning until

night, but by moonlight as well, and

Selina worked with him. Often their

sleep was a matter of three hours

only, or four.



So two years went—three years—

four. In the fourth year of Selina’s

marriage she suffered the loss of her

one woman friend in all High Prairie.

Maartje Pool died in childbirth, as was

so often the case in this region where

a Gampish midwife acted as obstetri-

cian. The child, too, had not lived.

Death had not been kind to Maartje





his shirts, take pride in the, great rud-

dy childlike giant? ‘ ,

Klass answered these questions just

nine months later by marrying the'

Widow Paarlenberg. High Prairie was

rocked with surprise. They had gone

to Niagara Falls on a wedding trip;

Pool’s place was going to have this’

improvement and that; no, they were





.going to move to the Widow Paarlen-





berg’s large farmhouse (they would

always call her that); no, Pool was

putting in a. bathroom with a bathtub

and running water; no, they were go-

ing to buy the Stikker place between

Pool’s and Paarlenberg’s and make

one farm of it, the largest in all High

Prairie, Low Prairie, or New Haarlem.

Well, no fool like an old fool.





 





 





A MORNING’S LESSON

Ida M. Budd





Brisk toiling in the morning sun,

Her silken web a spider Spun

Deftly from tree to tree;

Made fast each thread with



care,

And as l watched her, spinning there,

I wondered much to see.





patient





Across the intervening space



The gauzy fabric grew apace,

United at length it hung.



A thing of beauty, lace-like, fair,



Soft shimmering in the summer air

By breezes gently swung.





When lo! a hungry robin sped,

Intent upon his “daily bread,”

And by his heedless wing

.mThe fairy web was ruined quite,

"alts remnant fluttering in the light,

A wrecked and broken thing.





To work, at once, the spider went,

Without a sign of discontent

The mischief to repair,





And soon, across the torn web's space,

Another trembled in its place,

As delicately fair.





But now, alack! a careless hand,

Upraising high a leafy wand,



The new creation spoiled.

Undaunted still the spinner true

Took up, with zeal, her task anew,



And still as bravely toiled.





OH, heart of mine! can’st thou not see



The lesson Heaven hath sent to thee

In this most humble scene?



Tho’ treasures all be swept away,



And life left cheerless, dull and gray,

As if they had not been.





Still must thou hope and courage take,

And, for the blessed Master’s sake,

With patient toil pursue

The task His love hath set for thee,

And know that, in some glad morn,

He

Will crown thy life anew.





 





 





Pool. It had brought neither peace

nor youth to her face, as it so often

does. Selina, looking down at the

strangely still figure that had been so

active, so bustling, realized that for

the first time in the years she had

known her she was seeing Maartje

Pool at rest. It seemed incredible that

she could lie there, the infant in her

arms, while the house was filled with

people and there were chairs to be

handed, space to be cleared, food to be

cooked and served. Sitting there with

the other High Prairie women Selina

had a hideous feeling that Maartje

would suddenly rise up and take things

in charge; rub and scratch with cap-

able fingers the spatters of dried mud

on Klaas Pool‘s black trousers (he had

been in the yard to see to the horses);

quiet the loud wailing of Gr-ertje and

Jozina; pass her gnarled hand over

Roelf’s wide-staring tearless eyes;

wipe the film of dust from the parlor

table that had never known a speck

during her regime.



“You can’t run far enough,” Maartje

had said. “Except you stop living you

can’t run away from life.”



Well, she had run far enough this

time.



Roelf was sixteen now, Geertje

twelve, Jozina eleven. What would

this household do now, Selina wonder-

ed, without the woman who had been

so faithful a slave to it? Who would

keep the pigtails~—no longer giggling-—

in clean ginghams and decent square-

toed shoes? Vl'ho, when Klaas broke

out in rumbling Dutch wrath against

what he termed Roelf’s “dumb” ways,

would say, “0g, Pool, leave the boy

alone once. He does nothing.” Who

would keep Klaas himself in order;

cook his meals, wash his clothes, iron





So insatiable was High Prairie’s cur-

iosity that every scrap of fresh news

was swallowed at a gulp. When the

word went round of Roelf’s flight from

the farm, no one knew where, it serv-

ed only as sauce to the great dish of

gossip.



Selina had known. Pervus was away

at the market when Roelf had knock-

ed at the. farmhouse door one night at

eight; had turned the knob and en-

tered, as Usual. But there was noth‘

ing of the usual about his appearance.

He wore, his best suitewhis first suit of

store clothes, bought at the time of his

mother’s funeral. It never had fitted

him; now was grotesquely small for

him. He. had shot up amazingly in the

last eight, or nine months. Yet there

was nothing of the ridiculous about

him as he stood before her now, tall,

lean, dark. He put down his cheap

yellow suitcase.



“I am going away.



She nodded. “\Nhere?”



“Away. Chicago maybe.” He was

terribly moved, so he made his tone

casual. “They came home last night.

I have got some books that belong to





I couldn’t stay.”





you.” He made as though to open the

suitcase.

“No, no! Keep them.”





“Good-bye.”





“Good-bye, Roelf.” She took the boy’s

dark head in her two hands and, stand-

ing on tiptoe, kissed him. He turned

to go. “Wait a minute. Wait a min-

ute.” She had a few dollars——in quar-

ters, dimes, half dollars~perhaps ten

dollars in all—hidden away in a can-

ister on the shelf. She reached for it.





But when she came back with the box



in Qher hand he was, gone. .

Dirk was eight; little Sobig De-



Jong, in a suit made of bean sack~





 





 





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ing served together-by his mother. It

brown blond boy with mosquito bites

on his legs and his legs never still.

Nothing of the dreamer about this lad.

The one-room schoolhouse of Selina’s

day had been replaced by a two-story

brick structure, very fine, of which

High Prairie was vastly proud. The,

rusty iron stove had been dethroned

by a central heater. Dirk went to

school from October-until June. Per—

vus protested that this was foolish.

The boy could be of‘great help in the

fields from the beginning of Awril to

the first of November, but Selina

fought savagely for his schooling. and

won.



“Reading and writing and figgering

is what a farmer is got to know,” Per—

vus argued. “The rest is all foolish-

ness. Constantinople is the capital of

Turkey he studies,last night and uses

good oil in the lamp. What good does

it do a truck farmer when he knows

Constantinople is the capital of Tur-

gey? That don’t help him raise tur—

nips.” .



“Sobig isn’t a truck farmer.”



“Well, he will be pretty soon. Time

I was fifteen I was running our place."



Verbally Selina did not doubt this.

But Within her every force was gather—

ing to fight it when the time should

come. Her Sobig a truck farmer, a

slave to the soil, bent by it, beaten by

it, blasted by it, so that he, in time,

like the other men of High Prairie,

would take on the very look of the

rocks and earth among which they

toiled!



Dirk, at eight, was a none too hand-





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mother—or his father and mother as

they had been. He had, though, a “dif-

ferent” look. His eyelashes were too

long for a boy. Wasted, Selina said

as she touched them with a fond fore-

finger, when a girl would have been

so glad of them. He had developed.

too, a. slightly aquiline nose, probably

a long—jump inheritance from some

Cromwellion rapscall'ion of the Eng-

lish Peakes of a past century. It was

not until he was seventeen or eighteen

that he was to metamorphose sudden-

ly into a graceful and aristocratic

youngster with an indefinable look

about him of distinction and actual ele-

gance. It was when Dirk was thirty

that Peter Peel the English tailor (of

Michigan Avenue north) said he was

the only man in Chicago who could

wear English clothes without having

them look like Halsted Street. Dirk

probably appeared a little startled at

that, as well he might, West Halsted

Street having loomed up so large in

his background.



Selina was a farm woman now, near-

ing thirty. The work rode her as it

had ridden Maartje Pool. In the De«

Jong yard there was always a dado of

washing identical with the one that

had greeted Selina’s eye when first

she drove into the Pool yard years be

fore. Faded overalls, a shirt, socks,

a boy’s drawers grotesquely patched

and mended, towels of rough sacking.

She, too, rose at four, snatched up

shapeless garments, invested herself

with them, seized her great coil of fine

cloudy hair, twisted it into a utilitar-

ian knob and skewered it with a hair-

pin from which the varnish had long

departed, leaving it a dull gray; thrust

her slim feet into shapeless shoes, dab~

bed her face with cold water, hurried

to the kitchen stove. The work was

always at her heels, its breath hot on

her neck. Baskets of mending piled

up, threatened to overwhelm her. Over-

alls, woollen shirts, drawers, socks.

Socks! They lay coiled and twisted

in an old market basket. Sometimes

as she sat late at night mending them,

in and out, in and out, with quick

fierce stabs of the needle in her work-

scarred hand, they seemed to writhe

and squirm and wriggle horribly, like

snakes. One of her bad dreams was

that in which she saw herself over~

whelmed, drowned, swallowed up by a.

huge welter and boiling of undarned,

unmended nightshirts, drawers, socks,

aprons, overalls.



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BETTER. RUBBER. PRODUCTS SINCE [896
thoughtthat the Selina Peake off-the

winered cashmere, the fun-loving dis-

position, the high-spirited courage, had

departed forever. But these things

still persisted. For that matter, even

the wine-red cashmere clung to exist-

ence. So hopelessly old-fashioned now

as to be almost picturesque, it hung in

Selina’s closet like a rocy memory.

Sometimes when she came upon it in

an orgy of cleaning she would pass her

rough hands over its soft folds and by

that magic process Mrs. Pervus De-

Jong vanished in a pouf and in her

place was Selina Peake perched a-tip-

toe on a soap—box in Adam Ooms’s hall

while all High Prairie, open-mouthed,

looked on as the impecunious Pervus

DeJong threw ten hard—earned dollars

at her feet. In thrifty moments she

had often thought of cutting the wine-

red cashmere into rag—rug strips; of

dyeing it a sedate brown or black and

remodeling it for a much-needed best

dress; of.fashioning it into shirts for

Dirk. But she never did.,





It would be gratifying to be able to

record that in these eight or nine

years Selina had been able to work

wonders on the DeJong farm; that the

house glittered, the crops thrived rich—

ly, the barn housed sleek cattle. But

it cOuld not be truthfully said. True,

she had achieved some changes, but

at the cost of terrific effort. A less

indomitable woman would have sunk

into apathy years before. The house

had a coat of paint—lead-gray, because

it was cheapest. “There were two hors-

es~—the second a broken-down old

mare, blind in one eye, that they had

picked up for five dollars after it had

been turned out to pasture for future

sale as horse—carcass. Piet Pon, the

mare’s owner who drove a milk route,

had hoped to get three dollars for the

animal, dead. A month of rest and

pasturage restored the mare to useful-

ness. Selina had made the bargain,

and Pervus had scolded her roundly

for it. Now he drove the mare to mar~

ket, saw that she pulled more. sturdily

than the other horse, but had never

retracted. It was no quality of mean-

ness in him. Pervus merely was like

that.



But the west sixteen! That had

been Selina’s most heroic achievement.

Her plan, spoken of to Pervus in the

first month of her marriage, had taken

years to mature; even now was but a

partial triumph. She had even de-

scended to nagging. '



““‘hy don’t we put in asparagus?”



“Asparagus!” considered something

of a luxury, and rarely included in the

High Prairie truck farmer’s products.

“And wait three years for a crop!”



“Yes, but then we’d have its/(And a

plantation’s good for ten years, once

it's started.”



“Plantation! What is that? An as—

paragus plantation? Asparagus I’ve

always heard of in beds.”



“That’s'the old idea. I’ve been read-

ing up on it. The new way is to plant

asparagus in rows. the way you would

rhubarb or corn. Plant six feet apart,

and four acres anyway."



He was not. even sufllcieutly inter-

ested to be amused. “Yeh, tour acres

where? In the clay land, maybe.” He

did laugh then, it‘ the short bitter

sound he made could be construed as

indicating mirth. “Out of a book."



“In the clay land,” Selina urged,

crisply. “And out of a book. Every

farmer in High Prairie raises cabbage,

turnips, carrots, beets, beans, onions,

and they’re better quality than ours.

That west sixteen isn’t bringing you

anything, so what differenCe does it

make if I am wrong! Let me put, my

own money into it, I’ve thought, it all

out, Pervus. Please. \Ve’ll underdrain

the clay soil. Just five or six acres,

to start. We’ll manure it heavily—as

much as we can afford—and then for

two years we’ll plant potatoes there.

We’ll put in our asparagus plants the

third spring——one-year-old seedlings.

I’ll promise to keep it weeded——Dirk





’ and I. He’ll be a big boy by that time.





“How much manure?"





“0h, twenty to forty tons to the

acre—”



He shook his head in slow Dutch op-

position.



“—but if you’ll let me use humus I

won’t need that much. Let me try it,

Pervus. Let me try.”



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and partly because he was, in his un-

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a pin prick. Year in, year out, he

maintained his slow-plodding gait, con-

tent to do as his father had done be-

fore him; content to let the rest of

High Prairie pass him on the road. He

rarely shoWed temper. Selina. often

wished he would. Sometimes, in a sort

of hysteria of hopelessness, she would

rush at him, ruffle up his thick coarse

hair, now beginning to be threaded

with gray; shake his great impassive

shoulders. '



"Pervusl Pervust if you’d only get

mad——real mad! Fly into a rage. Break

things! Beat me! Sell the farm! Run

away!" She didn‘t, mean it, of course.

It was the vital and constructive force

in her resenting his apathy, his accept-

ance of things as they were.





“\Vhat is that for dumb talk?” He

would regard her solemnly through a

haze of smoke, his pipe making a. mad-

dening putt-putt of sleepy content.



Though she work as hard as any

woman in High Prairie, had as little,

dressed as badly, he still regarded her

as a luxury; an exquisite toy which, in

a moment of madness, he had taken

for himself. “Little Lina”—tolerantly,

fondly. You would have thought that

he spoiled her, pampered her. Perhaps

he even thought, he. did.





\Vhen she spoke of modern farming,

ot’ books on vegetable gardening, he

came very near to angry impatience,

though his amusement at, the idea sav-

ed him from it. College agricultural

courses he designated as foolishness.

()l' Linnaeus he had never heard. Bur-

bank was, for him, non—existent, and

he thought lwad-lettuce a silly fad.

Selina sometimes talked of. raising this

last named green as a salad, with mar-

keting value.



He said. too, she spoiled the boy.

Back of this may have been a lurking

jealousy. "Always the boy; always the

boy," he Would mutter when Selina

planned for the child; shielded him;

took his part: (sometimes unjustly).

“You will make a softy of him with

your always babying." So from time

to time he undertook to harden Dirk.

The result was usually disastrous. In

one case the process terminated in-

What was perilously near to tragedy.

It was during the midsummer vaca-

tion. Dirk was eight. The woody slopes

about High Prairie and the sand hills

beyond were covered with the rich

blue of huckleberries. They were dead

ripe. One shower would spoil them.

Geertje and Jozina Pool were going

huckleberrying and had consented to

take Dirk——a concession, for he was

only eight and considered, at their ad-

vanced age. a tagger. But the last of

help. To Dirk's, “Can I go berrying?

The huckleberries are ripe. Geert and

Jozina are going.” his father shook a.





 





 





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ASSETS

Real Estate Mortgages ............... . .............. $7,585,192.64

Stock Loans ...................................... 8,912.30

Real Estate ........................................ 56,118.26

Real Estate Sold on Contracts ................. . . . . . 23,528.71

Home Office Building ............................... 150,500.00

Furniture and Fixtures ........................ . . . 8,026.00

Due from Members (secured) ........ a ........... . . . 71,509.31

Unexpired Taxes .................................. 3,922.53

Accounts Receivable ............................... 2,987.18

Liberty Bonds ................................. . . . 102,615467

Cash on Hand and in Banks ....................... 186,731.17

$8,200,043.77

LIABILITIES

Class “F” Semi-Annual Dividend Stock.$5,716,180.00

Class “F” Cumulative Stock ............ 498,220.00

Class “F” Installment Stock ........... 21,141.00

Class “H” Pass-book Stock .............. 190,414.34

Brrrowers’ Stock ...................... 1,328,021.80

————————— $7,753,977.14

DIVIDENDS CREDITED:

Class “F” Cumulative Stock ........ 55 36,758.30

Class “F” Installment Stock .......... 2,464.56

Borrowers’ Stock .................... 260,083.10

~———-—$ 299,305.96

Adv. Dues and Int. and Prem ........ $ 3,556.57

Due Borrowers Incomplete Loans ..... 2,300.34

Due Agents and Stockholders on Par-

tial Payments on Loans .......... 3,182.69

Undivided Profits .................. 43,985.72





Reserve ............................. 93,735.35

————$ 146,760.67





$8,200,043.77

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF ASSETS





January 15, 1920 ................... $4,338,710.70

January 15, 1921... . . . ......... 4,738,820.00

January 15, 1922 .................... 4,986,644.29

January 15, 1923 ................... 6,116,580.77

January 15, 1924 ................... 7,079,684.27

January 15, 1925 ................... 8,200,043.77





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He trial did not go well. The wit-



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finally bought by his own place.





The next step was to take the ac-

cused to Pilate. The Romans would

not permit the Jews to exercise the

death penalty. Hence the sanhedrin

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point by popular pressure, and sweep

the governor’s better judgment by the

clamor of many voices. In this they

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weapon of threat, they shouted to Pil-

ate that he was no friend of the em-

peror, if he permitted any one to claim

that he was a king. These shrieked

thrusts went to the mark. Pilate was

moved, intimidated, overcome. He ad-

mitted that the accused was a just

man, and went through the silly per-

formance of washing his hands, as if

that would exonerate him from. the

crime of imposing the death penalty

on an innocent man. His wife had a.

dream and sent a warning note.

But politics first! Jesus was handed

over for death.





P ILATE was governor of Judea for



about ten years. Charges were

then brought against him' at Rome,

that he was cruel to the Samaritans,

and on other grounds, and he was dis-

missed from office. It is said that he

died miserably.



When brought to face the point,

Christ did not deny that He was a

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silence amazed the governor. When

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rabble, He made no answer. What

was the use? To ignore them was the





most fitting attitude to take. To deny _





what they said would have only. elicit-

ed more railing and accusation. He

was sent forth to be scourged. This

ordeal frequently ended in death. But





when, arrayed as a mock king, He was





brought forth, there was no voice rous-

ed in pity. Pilate tried once more to

save Him. “Behold the Man!” he





cried. But they screamed, “Crucify,





crucify!” It was done as they de-





manded. The King went away to

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throne. The die had been cast, the de-

cision given. Henceforth the one was

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other to be a synonym for cowardice

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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

MARCH 1.





 





SUBJECT:——Christ Before Pilate. Mat-





thew 27.11 to 31.





GOLDEN TEXTz—He was wounded





for our transgressions, .He was

wounded, bruised for our iniquitles.

Isaiah 53.5. ,





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DON’T want my porridge,” said the

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HE clothes problem is a problem

that has been handed down to

us by Mother Eve, and the prob

lem-of clothing a farm family in these

days of quick changing styles and

high-priced textiles is not a simple one.



If all farm families were in a posi-

tion to budget their incomes, the

clothes problem would be much simp-

ler, as most farmers and their good

wives try to live within their income.

If, in addition to her other work Mrs.

Farmwife can do her own sewing,

there is the possibility of cutting down

clothing expenses and, also, the chance

to buy a better grade of materials;

materials that will hold their colors

better, give better and longer service,

hold their shape better, and will be

better made. Materials purchased by

the piece or yard and, with all “find-

ings,” made up at home will cost con-

siderably less than when purchasai

ready made.



Plan Family Wardrobe Ahead.



There is nothing so inflexible as fact,

and “fact,” or the state of one’s bank

account, income or source of income

must be taken into consideration when

we sit down to plan the wardrobe for

our family. There are several ways

in which we may make the money go

farther, and every farm-wife usually

knows, to a penny, how much she oan

spend on clothing. Watch the sales

is a good slogan. Out-of—season buy-

ing of textiles is another.



To wait a few weeks longer for a

pair of shoes, a coat, a hat or dress,

or the material to make coats or dress-

es or underthings, and then, to be able





 





RAY hair is beautiful in it-



self, and so softening to the

complexion and so picturesque

in its effect that many a woman

who has been plain in her youth

is, by its beneficent influence,

transformed into a handsome

woman. Miss Oakey.





 





 





 





 





to purchase these things around half

price is a saving that is, to say the

least, decidedly worth while.



Shoes and rubbers, everyday necessi-

ties, are one of our greatest problems

unless we learn to watch the sales, for

ever-changing styles are constantly

throwing extremely good wearing and

good looking shoes on the bargain

counter. It is within the realm of pos—

sibilities to keep the feet of the whole

family, father included, well shod at

moderate cost, and all because of the

bargain counter. Good rubbers for

mother and the girls may be purchased

around Seventy—eight cents per pair;

the smaller size will cost less. Fath-

er’s rubbers will average around $1.35

per pair and brother’s the same. Small

boys’ rubbers, good, tough grade, may

be purchased for ninety-eight cents per

pair.



Overcoats for father and the boys,

if purchased at the annual mid—winter

mark-down sale, are a considerable

saving and serve, for best, three win-





ters. The same may be said for good

suits, union suits, rain coats and

sweaters.





Saving in Doing Men’s Sewing.



Sweaters are usually homemade

these days, and cost merely the price

of the yarn that “goes into them. The

housewife may, if handy with the

needle, make the shirts for her hus-





.. cm. .





band and sons. The saving is about

one-half of what a ready-made shirt

would cost. ‘



There is a saving on cotton plisse

or crepe, cretonne, unbleached muslin,

cambrics, chintz, plain ginghams and

chambrays if purchased by the bolt.

The unbleached muslin will make the

daintiest and most serviceable house

dresses imaginable. Cut in one-piece





‘ Clothing





times fade prematurely and the fash-

ions change so quickly that it is ex-

travagant for folk in moderate cir-

cumstances to purchase them to any

great extent. Dresses for the little

girls, made very plain, hand—trimmed

or, in the case of wash dresses such as

plain percales, chambrays and muslins,

the pipings, bias bands and appliqued

flowers, fruits, animals, etc., may be





 





Clothing a Family Like This One is a Real Problem, But the Solution Would

be Enjoyable.





style with neck and short sleeve bind-

ings of flowered Chintz or cretonne or

plain or checked ginghams With pock-

et and girdle to match, they are a

“thing of beauty and joy forever.”

These dresses launder well and wear

beautifully and one always has such a

neat “ready—for-company” appearance.

The crepe should be utilized in making

night gowns and’underthings for moth—

er and the girls and a whole bolt will

cost less than what we would pay for

two good, ready-made nightgowns.

This is the home needle—woman’s

day. Dainty crochet, rick-rack, or scal—

loped edgings, bead-work, wool, silk or

sansilk flowers, knots, outlines and mo-

tifs may be applied to our dainty un-





 





TRENGTH is natural, but



grace is the growth of habit.

This charming quality requires

practice if it is to become last-

ing.—Joubert.





 





 





dies that adds a distinctive touch that

every daughter of Eve will and does

appreciate.



Two Old Dresses Make One Good One.



Combination dresses are now in high

favor and this enables us to make over

our old wardrobe and utilize all good

material in these becoming combina-

tions. Wool fabrics may be combined

with silk and we, quite frequently, are

able to pick up striking, worthwhile

remnants and lo, and behold! we have

material for a becoming and stylish

dress.



Some of the newer fabrics have

large flowered designs. These should

be used sparingly by the woman who

must be, constantly, on the alert, that

her clothing bill does not grow out of

bounds. The flowered fabrics some-





 





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made from scraps of new material sal-

vages from the scrapbag.



A good grade satine for winter, and

light grade satine, (light colors), or

plain or flowered crepe (never silk)

for summer make good bloomers for

mother and the grils. The above ma-

terial will wash and wear well.



Hats for the feminine part of the

household may be home-made. if you

are clever along this line. Never try

to make the frame. Purchase a be-

coming shape and window shop along

Broadway some day. Notice the pre—

vailing fashion in trimmings and go

home while the ideas are new and

evolve your own “creation.” You will

find that, from three to seven dollars

may be saved on each hat.





I, in fact, evolved, for $3.68 the exact

duplicate of a hat that was priced, in

a milliner’s window at $16.75. The

saving, you see, was well worth while.



When farm women come to'realize

that it is possible to get a most attrac-

tive hat, housedress, apron or frock for

approximately half-price if it is fash-

ioned at home, or that it will be pos-

sible to possess the loveliest of dress

accessories if some work and thought

are given to them, more of them will

begin to think of plying the needle,

using the easy, new patterns, the dye

pots, their own individual ideas for

trimmings as a way to create beauti-

ful, useful things, and to save money

or stretch that sadly over-worked dol-

lar. Then learn to eliminate and, if

possible, “start a budget.”





 





SHORT CUTS lN COOKING.





 





HEN making apple dumplings,

wash the apples before peeling,

and put peelings and cores into a.





Costs





saucepan to cook ten minutes. When

making the dumplings pour this water

over them instead of clear water. It

gives them a more delicious flavor.‘



Wet the knife with cold water when

cutting a meringue pie and the mer-

ingue will not stick.



Heat a small quantity of vinegar in

a dish and all odor of onions or fish is

removed.



In the course of the “scriptural span

of life (three score and ten) it has

been estimated that man spends fully

three years in eating.





 





A SICK ROOM JOY.





 





MINISTER of the writer’s ac-



quaintance recently suffered from

a broken hip, caused by slipping on a.

waxed floor, while playing basket ball

with a group of his young people. The

accident caused him to be confined to

his bed for many weeks. At his direc—

tion, the following

small piece of fur-

niture was quick-

ly made by a

\i . handy young chap.



The worker took a stout box, obtain-

ed at a grocery store. It had one open

end. The box was cut in two, so as

to leave a top, two ends and a bottom

just like the top. This bottom board

was removed, leaving a bench—shaped

article of the following dimensions:

The top was thirty-six inches long, and

twenty inches wide. The ends were

sixteen inches deep and twenty inches

wide. From the bottom board which

had been removed, two cleats were cut

and the edges smoothed. Each cleat

was an inch and a half wide.



These pieces of wood were nailed

firmly to either edge of the top and

sides of the improvised table. These

cleats served as a brace, or what is

called a “box” on a chair. The top of

the table was neatly covered with oil

cloth, and the ends were painted white.



When the invalid was ready for a

meal, the bed-table was a real joy. It

was roomy enough without being

clumsy. When the invalid wished to

write a letter, the table was at hand.

If he desired to read and consult rath-

er heavy books, it was especially help-

ful.



Later, when a child in the family

was confined to bed for a few days,

the bed-table came into play to hold

paints and pictures to color, and books

and toys. At this time, an improve-

ment was added, by fastening a mould~

ing around the back and two ends of

the top of the table. Small Wire nails

held the moulding in place. This pre-

vented pencils and small articles from

slipping off—E. M. G.





 





 





 





 





Codfish is delicious cooked in the

following manner: Freshen and sim-

med in clear water until tender. Drain.

Make a saucepan of plain milk gravy,

pour the codfish (shredded) into the

gravy and boil five minutes. Season

with salt and pepper to taste. Stir in

one minced mango pepper and one ta-

blespoon of chili sauce. Serve on tri-

angles of crisp toast. Sprinkle chop-

ped hard-boiled eggs on top. This is

a tasty and satisfying luncheon (or

supper) dish.





 





Uncle Si says he likes to have com-

pany for meals well enough, but he

does hate to keep passing things, and

they never seem to ask for what-they,

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HE little month of February is,

' brim full-of birthday cakes, ice

cream and what-not for boys and

‘St. Valentine and the red can-

dies so dear to every child; George

Washington and his hatchet; Abraham

Lincoln and his shovel-slate have al-

ways stood in the high-lights of child-

consciousness when thinking of Feb—

ruary.



And now all over the world, espe-

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verséry to celebrate which includes all

who love the child in home, church,

school and state.



Years agortwenty—eight to be exact,





 





Picture C antes!





HEN John Howard Payne



wrote, “Be it ever so hum-

ble, there’s no place like home,”

he expressed the sentiment of a

great nation. The scenes about

the home are always interest-

ing.



So for this week we will have

a picture contest. Send in your

pictures, taken in and around

your home. The pictures will be

returned if a stamp accompanies

them.



For the five best pictures we

will give our handy rubber kitch-

en aprons. Address your pictures

to Martha. Cole, Michigan Farm-

er, Detroit, before March 6.





 





 





 





a group of earnest mothers and teach-

ers responded to the call of one beau-

tiful woman whose ViSiOll embraced

the childhood of the world. Alice. Mc-

Lellan Biltney held a vision of the pow-

er of healing and of inspiration for the

motherhood of the nation, and she was

never disobedient to that heavenly vis-

ion, but gave unceasingly to the pro-

mulgation of the gospel of motherhood

and childhood as exemplified by her

own beautiful life.





She felt the power of banded ill,





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But felt that love was stronger still,

And organized for common good

The world’s united Motherhood.





As a result of that conference when

the National Congress of Mothers was

created at Washington, D. C., we now

have the National Congress of Parents

and Teachers. We are new of an age

when all manhood and womanhood

functions most capably.



Parent—Teachers’ Associations form

the bridge that connects the home and

school, the clearing house for the mis-

understandings and unbelief that

creeps into the home atmosphere

where teacher and parent are strang—

ers. Today will never come again, let

our first impulse in ”the early hours

direct us to hearing and seeing the

viewpoint of the child.



No community, unorganized, can ev-

er hope to reap the benefits of com-

munity improvements in the same

measure that unified and federated

forces will bring. To create a. healthy

public opinion toward the policy of

community cooperation is one of the





high functions given to Parent-Teach-l





ers’ Associations.



In the words of our reporters from

many affiliated associations in our

state—-and our 45,000 nicinbcrsficome

the glad news of such accomplish-

ments as those:



Swinging bond issues for new school

houses, purchasing playground equip-

ment, neighborhood “boos" for grading

grounds, gymnasiums, libraries, lunch

rooms, rest, rooms with “first aid”

equipment, dental and medical inspec-

tion, better ventilation, better lighting,

school buildings made into “Commu-

nity Centers,” “Knowing Your School

Programs" and how your boy and girl

works in school, school orchestras, bet-

ter (but entertaining) films, clean rec-

reational activities,

for mothers and pro-school children,

delightful and tactful chaperonagc of

junior and senior students‘ affairs so-

cial and child labor controlled.



If your community needs direction

toward organizing a P. T. A. we shall

be pleased to help you in this great

commie-Mrs. L. C. Vl'hitlark,





 





 





Household Service





Use this department to help solve

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HOW TO PACK BUTTER.





\Vould you please tell me a good

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If butter is to be packed away {or

future use it. should be made from

Scht cream after the usual process.

The usual amount of salt is added and

may be pacle solid in stone jars or

made into pound bricks, wrapped in

parchment paper, and thou packed in

jars. The jars should be thoroughly

scaldcd and free from taint 01‘ odor.

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Make the first layer by arranging

white dough around edge of pan. Then

yellow, finally brown in the center.

The second layer is made in this order,

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Bake in moderate men. Put layers

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Hold up the feeding of the baby

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the chicks will eat in about fifteen

minutes. Scatter the feed on newspa—

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A good starter can be made of equal

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per cent charcoal. The college has

stopped recommending the use of raw

egg in the starter as it might spread

white diarrhea.



The fine commercial chick scratch

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membered that his .mother had good.





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fed largely on yellow corn meal. So he

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following ration, which has given goOd

satisfaction. It consists of , eighty

parts yellow corn meal and twenty

parts standard middlings to which is

added five parts of ground bone, five

parts of pure limestone and one part

salt. This is mixed dry for the young

chicks and fed from the start. They

are given plenty of milk but no scratch

feed. A bulletin entitled, “New Chick

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Experiment Station at Madison, which

gives considerable information on their

new methods of feeding chicks.



You must have pure sunshine with

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In your issue of January 3, 1925,

you printed an article about an Ohio

poultry man whose hens were infected

with worms, and that he used concen-

trated lye for tapeworms. My hens

have tapeworms and the flock is near-

ly ruined. I have a valuable flock of

hens, as I have been culling the hens

for about four years, and they were

our main support. We have had lots

of eggs from them other winters, but

none this winter. Could you tell me

how to use the concentrated lye treat-

ment, as you did not give any direc-

tions how to use it. Would greatly ap-

preciate any help you could give me

on treatment for tapeworms. W'ould

it be safe to raise chickens on the

same ground where I had chickens

last year. and if not, where would it

be safe?—W. A. S.



Two pounds of tobacco dust contain-

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can be added to 100 pounds of the lay-

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every other week the flock can be

given epsom salts at the rate of one

pound for each 100 birds. It is given

in the drinking water in the morning

when the hens are thirsty.



The Storrs, Conn, Experiment Sta—

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give epsom salts. Often a lot of the

worms can be removed from the drop-

ping boards the next morning.



I have had no experience with the

concentrated lye treatment for worms;

and do not know the source of the arti-

cle in the January 3 issue.



It is advisable to raise young chick-

ens on Clean soil if the range has

been infested with worms. I believe

that weeks of zero winter weather

must be a fine help in cleaning up a

poultry range and making it safe for

the new stock. But if the range has

been in bad condition it will help to

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forage crop. This turns under the

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place is very frosty so that the litter

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enough of the windows so that the out“:

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rather cold at times. I have noted

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I have sixty-five Barred Rock pullelts

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Dear Uncle Frank:



I have been very quiet all summer

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er than boys or not.” I have worked

in the house and out doors, so I ought

to know something about this question.



What T. Hurd said seems true to

boys who have not worked in the

house, but I have worked in the house

and know what it is. Now, this is the

way I had my experience.



My mother fell sick and as there

was nobody around our place that

wanted to work at that time, I had to

do the housework.



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‘was over I had to wash the dishes and

gthe milk cans, of which there were

ifour. After I had done» this I had to

{straighten up the house. By the time

‘I had done this, it was generally time

to start dinner. After dinner I washed

the dishes and straightened up the

house. This did not take so long, so

most always I had a little time in the

afternoon.



After I had prepared supper and it

had been eaten, I would wash the

dishes, and after doing a few other

things I was glad to go to bed. Now





Who Works the Hardest?





A Fair Dircuuzon of #2:: Subject





I will tell about my experience out

doors. ' '



In the morning I would get up, so

out and help milk and feed the cattle

and horses. After this, I came up and

ate breakfast. After breakfast, I went

out and helped water up the stock.

After this we hitched the team on the

wagon and went out to the field to

draw hay. Of course, we did not do

this every day last summer, but I am

telling about those days because I had

to work hardest then. We stopped

work at noon for dinner. Before I

went to the house I helped feed the

horses and water the cows. After din-

ner we came out and watered and

hitched up the team, then went out to

the field again. \Ve generally quit

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supper we milked, and then came up

to the house to read or do something

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Now, after having worked inside and

outside, I have decided that I like to

work outside far better than inside. I

havenot said this to try to prove that

girls work more than boys, but to try

to make some boys see that they do

not do so much more work'than the

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Dear Uncle Frank:



I wrote you a letter about two years

ago and it was printed. About two

days after it was printed I received

several letters from readers of the

Merry Circle page. It was so funny,

too. Every one, (just eleven), were

girls. Not one boy. I’ll bet the boys

all write to the girls. I answered all

the letters, but one alone answered. I

get at least a letter from her once a.

week, and last week I got two. That’s

going some, I’ll say. Especially in

view of the fact that she has never

seen me.



You remember I wrote you about

the Sacred cattle. The calf was lost

in the swamp, but we have another

one now. The other was yellow, and

this one is grey and ever so much

different—George Conway, Manistee,

Mich.



Your correspondence experienceris

interesting. I remember the sacred

cow and your past reference to only





girls writing.





Dear Uncle Frank:



As the M. C. has made progress Why

not have it make more progress? My

idea. is that, to have some fun and ex—

citement, we should vote for a presi-

dent, treasurer, and law-maker. I mean





 





Emily Usborne, Girls’ Chairman, Ag-

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when I say law—maker, that we should“





have a person who is supposed to

make laws and send them to you to

see if they are good.



If you have any other offices to fill

will you name them? We would like

you to tell what each one is to do. We

should have a primary election to de-

cide for which one to vote.



There should be parties and each

one should have a name, such as, Re-

public, Democrat, Federalist and Whig.

The M. C.’s should write on a piece of

paper, their name, and age, and also

of what party they want to belong.



Good—bye, with best wishes from

your nephew, Clinton Van Dwine, R. 1,

Dorr, Mich.



Here’s an idea. Let’s have some

opinions on it. It’s not new, but is a

little different than some others ex-

pressed.





Dear Uncle Frank:





I suggest that We have a discussion

or contest, on, “What do we get from

the dictionary?” For we surely get

many things from it. Our grammar is

bettered by just the simple dictionary.

Things that we couldn’t understand

are explained. But still people won-

der what good it is to anyone.



I am very glad I am a Merry Circle

member, as I have secured many

friends, some with which I have cor-

responded over a year.



Well, good-bye Uncle Frank. Hope

someone gets good from this—Your

niece, Geneva Kohlenberger, 309 Sher—

idan Avenue, Big Rapids, Mich.





Yes, the dictionary is more uSeful

than most of us think. I have found





' it really more interesting to ramble





through, for in it I have found words

which were like nuggets of gold. I am

glad you have found good friends

through the Merry Circle.





Dear Uncle Frank:



Perhaps you have forgotten me, as

I haven’t written for so long, but I

haven't forgotten you nor the M. C. In

fact, have missed but very few letters

in our department. It is laughable to

see so many take our discussions so

seriously. When I read some of them

I just say, “It is to laugh!”



have read recently, Pollyanna,



Prudence of the Parsonage, Pilgrim’s

Progress, and have started Just David,

besides some books in the school lib—

rary.





I:





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My main pastime is drawing pictures ‘

and playing piano. Some combination,

eh! I don’t read stories very much.

The reason is, I am too much occupied

with other things. '



I have just finished my portrait with

my pen. My face isn’t as natural as

it might be, but anyway, my legs are

just about natural, also my feet.



I must also apologize for not writing

before. Am a sort of a slow poke.

This you can easily see by my picture.

I have to move the furniture before

I can turn my feet around. Ha!



Well, I guess I’ll shut off the draft

and go to bed—Albert Alfredson,

Whitehall, Mich.





 





 





Say, Uncle Frank, can you tell me

something to stop a girl from growing

_ I am thirteen, and five feet

five inches, and weigh 120 pounds.

Well, I must go back to school. Love

to all, Verda R. Cole, M. C., R. 7, Mt.

Pleasant, Mich.





' No, I have not forgotten you and am

glad you came back. You have read

good books. Whatever would stop your

growth would also affect your health,

so just keep a growing.





Dear Uncle Frank:



I live on a 200,-acre farm with my

parents, sisters, and brother. People

don’t know what they are missing by

not living in the country, anyway in

the summer.



Is the city better than the country?

Some people say it is, and also claim

it is more healthy in the city. They

say that the farmers “garbage” goes

in the back yard; dirty dishwater, too.

They say in the city it isn’t that way,

but is it that way in the country?

What do you say, boys and girls?



That is station M. V. S. F.——Meadow

View Stock Farm, near the vicinity of

Holland, Michigan, now signing off at

7:30 o’clock, central standard time.

Good evening, Ruth Kleinheksel, R. 5,

Holland, Mich.



Somebody has a radio. The matter

of health depends more upon one’s

care of his health than upon whether





one’lives in the country or city.





Dear Uncle Frank:



Can’t I chatter for a little while

not have to bother with W B

think Marcia Rowe’s suggestion is a.

good cue. I don’t think any boy is

manly that smokes. I have seven

brothers and none of them smoke.



Well, I guess I must close my chat-

terbox. Hope I win in the contest for

once.» Your niece, Gladys Knecht, M.

0., Cadillac, Mich.





I am glad to get your smoking ideas.

Let’s have some others. Do you like

them smoked or unsmoked, girls?





and

I





Dear Uncle Frank:



have a story about raising pigs.

Once I was at a man’s house. He had

a bunch of pigs. He had one very

small one, and he told my brother and

I that the one who caught it could

have it. I got the pig, took it home

and fed it. After six months he weigh-

ed 180 pounds and brought $11.50. I

expect to, or would like to, join the

boys’ pig or calf club.



I like to work on the farm. I would

like to get a pin. Am eleven years old

and in the seventh grade—Ferris Cas-

key, Gregory, Mich.





You areouite a. live stock farmer

already. You have an especially good

start for a boy eleven years old. Just

keep it up and you will be some

farmer. ‘
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By Mary Heath, Mesick, Michigan.



For out-door sports, I like playing

fox and geese best, for it gives plenty

of exercise and fresh air.



We are stirring all the time at that

game and we can play a long time

out of doors without getting cold. I

think the more we children are out

playing, the healthier we are, for I

know by experience that last winter

Mama wouldn’t let me play out of

doors hardly any, and I was sick a

I missed two weeks‘ of





This winter I have played out every

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and am feeling and looking good.



Vt've have great times sliding down

hill at school, and on Sunday when

the weather is fit, we get up a bunch

of us and take a little wood and kind-

ling and a little bottle of kerosene and

a few matches, and our sleds and skiis

and go to the big hill and build a fire

and just have a big time.





By Le Roy MacKellar, Decatur, Mich.



Skiing is a winter sport in the north

of Europe, Canada, and the United

States. The ski, or Scandinavian snow—

shoe, is a flat slat, usually of hard pine

or ash, somewhat wider than one’s

boot, a quarter of an inch thick, and

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turned slightly upward so as to slip

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sliding down steep places.



,And now the thrills have begun! You

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ment you have, When the snow is right

and when you get the knack of it, so

that you can take the steep slopes

without too much fear, you will be

ready to say that there is nothing

short of flying that can beat it. The

king of winter sports~—that is its name.



“'hen I say skiing is the king of

winter sports there is another kick

coming. and that is getting up hill.

The easiest: thing is to pick a course,

zig-zag. The poles are handy in hill

climbing.



Skiiers also make great jumps and

do many other tricks. Therefore, I

think the title is correct, because of

the fun and advantages on skis. Fun

can be had from skiing in addition to

the health and the self—respect that

comes from mastering grim mountains

in. zero cold.





MIXED WORD CONTEST





['R last mixed word contest which

appeared February 14, must have

been easy, as nearly every one of IIlt‘

thousand or more had it right. I just

mixed up the big pile of ansWers and

pulled out with my eyes closed, the ten

who are to receive the prizes this

week. All others who had ‘correct an—

swers and are not Merry Circlers, will

get M. C. buttons and cards.

Fountain Pens.



Mary Shoemaker, M. C., 1506 Deyo

Street, Jackson, Mich.



Leone Nixon R. 2, Standish, Mich.



Di tionaries.



Ruth G. Moline, M. C., R. 2, Manis-

tee, Mich.



Grace Cramer, (.‘omstock, Mich.



Lillian Skytta, Rumley, Mich.



Knives.





Ella Engelhard, R. 3,

Mich.





Alice Buist, M. C., Martin, Mich.





.John Cook, M. C., R. 1, Allegan,

MlCIl.





_Arlene Bohrer, M. C., R. 7, Traverse

City, Mich.





Astrid Peterson, R. 1. Hermansville,

Mich. '

The girls seem to be in the great

majority in this contest, while the boys

came stronger in cross word puzzles.

Quite a few missed out on this contest





Sebewaing,





because they spelled scythe wrong.





 





 





Some also lost a chance by not put-

ting their names and address on their

papers.





ANSWERS TO FARM WORD CON-

TEST. '





HE following are the correct words



made from the mixed up words in

the contest which appeared in our is-

sue of February 14:





1. horses 11. thresher

2; oxen 12. reaper

.3. chicken ‘ 13. scythe

4. rooster 14. sprayer

5. separator 15. windmill

6. pails 16. pigs



7. cultivator 7. tractor

8. radio 18. wire



9. wagon 19. sheep

10. automobile 20. children





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THE MERRY CIRCLE FUND.





EIE Fund is still alive and kicking,

and it is growing, even though it

has been quiet. Boys and girls are oc-

casionally sending in their nickels and

dimes, and sometimes more. 1 am





, working on a special purpose for this





fund and in a short time expect to

announce it. Then we will have to

get busy and have a regular campaign

to make things hum. In the meantime,

if you have any bits of money that you

would like to contribute toward mak-





children. please send it to the Merry

Circle Fund, Michigan Farmer, De-

troit, lVIichigan.——Uncle Frank.





Redd-mm]— lVifl





E have had quite a. few new kind

of puzzles lately,





 





 





have somewhat forgotten the old reli—

able Read-and-Win. So, for a change

we will have one this week. For those

who have not taken part in the Read—

and-Win the following suggestions are

given:



The answers to the ten questions be-

low will be found in this paper. When

you find the answer write it out as

short. as possible to make sense, and

number it the same as the question is

numbered. Do not write out the ques-

tion. \l'rite on one side of the paper

only and put your name and address

in the upper left. hand corner of the

first sheet. If you are a Merry Circler,

put M. C. after your name.



All the correct and neat papers will

be put into a basket and ten will be

pulled out for prizes. The first; two

prizes will be handy nickled fountain

pens; the next three, useful school dic-

tionaries, and the next five, handy lit-

tle pocket knives.



All sending in correct papers and

who are not Merry Circlers, will get

M. C. membership cards and pins.



This contest closes March 6, so send

your papers to Uncle Frank, Michigan

Farmer, Detroit, Michigan. before that

time.



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in yield of wheat in the good wheat

years from top-dressing?



2. What per cent of the cow testing

association cows were found unprofit-

able?



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ened?



4. What is the only way to run

away from life?



5. What did

$16.75 hat cost?



6. What will take the accumulated

grease out of a radiator?





7. Who will be next secretary of

agriculture ?



8. What did Wanamaker

$120,000?



9. How many pounds of nitrogen

does it take to grow a corn crop?



10. Who is the Dre-eminently typical

American?





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:carefulness in doing his work.





The sooner a tester learns to say, “I

don’t know, but I will find out for

you,” the sooner he will win his mem-

bers’ confldence and the better 011’ he

will be.



The tester must also make the mem-

bers feel that he is right at home with

them. He must live like they do,

enter their sports (not more than'hjs

time permits), enjoy their fun, grieve

over their sorrows, and in general

make them feel that he is just an or-

dinary person like themselves.



Another great aid, perhaps the great-

est in securing their confidence, is to

be exact and careful in the work per-

formed. In order to satisfy the men it

is necessary to make them feel that

their work is being done right. There:

fore, the tester should always show

If he

is in a hurry he must hurry in a. care-

ful way, not by banging things around.

A tester should never be in too much





of a hurry to stop and answer ques-

tions and explain things. That is what

he is there for.



Great care should be taken in writ-

ing up herd books. Many members are

pretty choice of their herd books and

a nice neat looking book makes them

feel pretty good. I carry my own ink,

using the same color and brand at all

times. It shows up well to have the

whole page filled in neatly with the

same colored ink.



After the tester has gotten the mem-

bers really interested in their cows,

and has their full confidence he can go

ahead with a very constructive pro-

gram. Among his first items will be

rearranging of feeding practices, bal-

ancing rations, etc, weeding out the

poor cows, recommending the use of

silos and the growing of alfalfa, urg-

ing the Use of better pure-bred sires,

pushing the tuberculosis eradication,

and many other items that are now re—

ceiving much discussion and should re

ceive earnest attention, both now and

in the future.



But in the future I think the tester

can branch into other fields. He can

help the dairyman with his other prob—

lems. He can aid in planning improve-

ments in the dairy barn and yards. By

going from One farm to another many

ideas are picked up. These ideas and

the help from M. A. C. that is available

would make the tester a real help in

dairy barn construction, arrangement,

ventilation, etc.



He can also make the farmer a more

competent judge of dairy cattle. The

farmer, by having judging thoroughly

demonstrated to him, can go out and

buy cattle more intelligently. And

thus make fewer poor buys.



Again, the tester can explain the

laws of breeding to the farmer and aid

him in practicing them. Make him

more familiar with the better strains

of his breed of cattle, and help him in

buying a bull best su ted for his strain

of cattle.



Herd managem is another prob-

lem in which the tester can help the

dairyman. He can make out handy

breeding record charts to be tacked

up in the barn, reducing greatly the





 





 





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trouble of keeping a. breeding record

book. He can advise as to the best

time for the herd to freshen. He can

help in the treatment of sterile cows,

take blood samples for contagious

abortion, and act as a. first aid man in





general around the barns in which he





travels.



Another important duty he should

perform is giving suggestions for farm'

management. It is quite often hard

for the farmer dairyman to know just

what rotation to use, to know how

large to make each rotation, how much

hay and grain he will need this year

and how much pasture he wiil need

next year. The well-trained tester in

the future will be able to aid him in

these difficulties.



Marketing, the greatest, of all farm

difficulties, will be studied for the

twenty-five or thirty farmers collective-

ly by one man, the cow tester. With





. the aid from the M. A. C. marketing





 





The Cow Testers of Michigan.





experts, the tester will be able to give

expert advice on marketing to the var-

ious members of his cow testing as-

sociation.



As the boys and girls on a dairy

farm are brought up under quite a

strong dairy environment, it will be

easy for the tester to organize calf

clubs or at least aid in their organiza-

tion. But he need not confine himself

to calf clubs. He may be active in

various other boys’ and girls’ club

work, according to the need.



No one is better situated than the

tester of a cow testing association to

advance the opportunities for further

education among farm boys and girls.

This I consider is one of the greatest

opportunities for the tester to be of

real service to mankind at large. Too

many farm boys and girls quite school

when they finish the eighth grade and

go to work on the farm, with no high-

er ideals or no special training for

their work. . They are just farm help.

And it is a pity, but we are overstock-

ed With that kind of help.



The tester can put before these

young people the advantages of proper

training and in doing their life’s work.

And if, as we said previously, the test-

er has the full confidence of his pa-

trons, then these young men and wom-

en will listen to him more than they

would to some others and he will be

able to induce them to continue their

training. They won’t all respond to

the extent that they will be college

graduates. Many will go to high

school and part of them will graduate.

Possibly a few will finish college. Oth-

ers will be scattered among the vari—

ous business schools, normals, short

courses offered at this institution, etc.

Some will take a business or short;

course Without the high school course.

But it matters not what particular

training these rural young people take,

or what walk in life they plan to fol-

low, the cow tester can do his mite

and start them in the pathways that

will lead them to learn that they mus

get fitted'for their job in life. '



There are remaining two of the

greatest possibilities fer betterment

by cow testers, namely, improvement
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of the social and livingl conditions in

his territory. There are many things





'that lcan be done by the tester to en-





lighten the drudgery of the farm fam-

ilies’ home life. He can interest them

in good books, papers and magazines.

He can help fix small conveniences

around the house. He can distribute

bulletins on packing lunches, the latest

canning methods, remodeling and re-

decorating homes and many others as

the occasion demands it. In short, he

can be a handy Johnny around the

house.



In community social work the tester

should take an active part. He should

support and advance any project that

is good for the community as a whole.

He should always be alert to 'do his

bit, whether it is for the association

members or not. He should always be

on hand to help in any good cause to

the extreme extent of his ability. Peo-

ple enjoy having a pleasant sociable

sort of a fellow around. And it will

help to induce more men to join the

cow testing association if they know

that all testers are real live wires.



, We have outlined many improve-

ments for the cow testing association,

and now all we need is testers able to





carry out such a program. The judges .





will probably think this is all bunk and

heave it into the waste basket the first

thing. But what is life without things

beyond our reach, or if you wish, with-

out higher ideals? And as we approach

our ideals must we not move them

ahead? For if we reached our goal

what would be the use of living any

more? Our work would be accomp-

lished and we would have nothing

more to do. We would merely be in

the way of progress. I think it is bet-

ter to always have something for which

to strive. Though we do not 'reach it,

yet we can at least say “I have tried.

I failed because my ability was not

equal to the task.”



So, as service was the opening word,

so shall it be the closing thought.

Good, wholehearted, energetic service

has made success for the cow testing

association in the past and will make

greater success for it in the future.





CREAMERY HAS BIG SEASON.





 





THE Crystal Falls Creamery Com-



pany a. farmers’ cooperative con-

cern—manufactured, last year, 99,704

pounds of butter, which was a thirty-

four per cent increase over the year

before. This increase was mainly in

the Winter months which was advan-

tageous both for the creamery and the

farmers. It is expected that larger

quarters will become necessary, if the

present rate of progress continues.





 





Electricity has replaced steam for pow-

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MICHIGAN COW TESTING WORK

FOR 1924.





1.——30.506 cows in 2,641 herds under

test in 105 cow testing associations in

Michigan.



2.—3.79 per cent butter-fat cows in

Michigan in cow testing association

work—highest in United States.



3.—14.3 per cent of the cows in

Genesee county in nine cow testing

associations, highest per cent of cows

in any one county in the United Stat as

under test.



4.~Forty new cow testing associa-

tions organized December 1, 1923, to

December 1, 1924—growth fifty—eight

per cent.



5.—Sixty-five cow testing associa-

tions—ninety-six per cent—reorganized

for another year’s work.



6.——Average Michigan Cow Testing

Association cow produced 7,201 pounds

of milk and 277.3 pounds of butter-fat

during 1924.



7.——Average Michigan cow produces

3,700 pounds of milk and 160 pounds

of butter-fat.



8.—-8.5 per cent of cow testing asso-

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1924—-or ninety carloads sent to the

block.



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pure-bred sires purchased by cow test—

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10.~—Record of Performance institut-

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714 entries received by January 1,

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Following is a list of the high cows of the various classes in the Michi<

gall cow testmg associations for the month of December:

Ten High Cows—Three-year Class.

(2111101111, Lakewood ................................ Rg H 11—11142 ' 9 '

limit-South, Harper & Son ......................... PB H Ill—29¢: lgég if $333

(nllmun, Lakewood ................................ Pg 11 1015-24 2130 3'7 79'0xx

Iilvlllgston no. 3, A. ll._ Donaldson ........... rn J 1389 5'3 73's

(lenesce N0. 7, w. 11. .llofl‘ ..... . ............. rn 11 11—10—24 1950 3'0 70'2xx

0111mm, Lakewood .......................... Rg ll 11- 1-24 2167 32 69'3xx

l\t’lll~SOlllll, Joe “tumor .......................... r13 11 1027-24 1071 0'4 (‘8'5

Geneseo No. 3, 1). l). Aitkcn .................... 1’13 11 1011.21 158? 41 Grill“

Tun-(nu No. 2, .1. v. Keluzttll ..................... Hg ll 12— 1-21 1304 4'7 (53"1

Mill‘qllette~Algel', J. n. Duetsvh .................... PB 0. 12-17-21 1202 5:0 03'0“

Ten High Cows—Four-year Class.

Comp. Ottawa, Sam Ilymel‘ ....................... PB J 10—22-24 11

('lilllOlln, Lakewood ................................ Kg 11 11—18-21 2113;9 452' 31?:

[Al'lllgston N0, 1, M. .1. Mr-l’herson.. ....... 1115 H 11-00—00 2431; 3'0 871‘ x

sunilac No. 2, Glen Clarkson ............... Gr D 10-00-24 1984 3'7 73'4'

baton—North. J. B. Strange ................. Rg H Ill-2134 1434 5'0 70"!

Ingllaln—Lwl‘le, Campbell & Shaw ................... Gr II 11—182; 1438 4'9 704

Ll_Vlngst0n No. 3, Sheldon Latourett ............... PB J 394 6'0 69'?

Ilillsaule No. 1, B. McVate ....................... H 10-10—24 1727 4'0 (:9'1

halamazoo No. 1, Kalamazoo State 1105mm ........ G:- H 9-30-24 1810.4 3'3 08'8x

St. Clair No. 2, Alb. Richtu ..................... PBH 1425 417 6720

Ten High Cows—Under Five-year Classs.

Clmton-Slliawassee, J. F. Bowlby ................... PB H ........ ‘” ‘

('linmn-Shiawassee, R. Mentor ..................... Gr 11 fall] (452 i323“

Sanllac No. 2, Glen Clarkson ........... Gr D 10— -24 2458 4'2 103";x

Clinton-Shlawassee. J. F. Bowlby ........... PB II ........ 2531; 46 101';x

Livingston 1‘40. 1, M, J. McPherson... ........... PB II 11-15‘24 2529.1 3'7 93'0xx

Livingston No. 1, M. J. McPherson ................ PB 11 ........ 24301: 3'0 877in

Ionla-Beldlng. Ionia. sum, Hospital ................. PB 11 11-20-24 2223' 3'11 813'}

chana. Joseph 0cobock ............................ Gr J 11- 8-24 1475.6 5'7 343'

lxalnlnazoo No. 1. T. L. Rea ........................ Gr G 12- 1-24 1531.4 5'4 327

Sunllac 1w. 2. Edward Coupa ...................... as J 10- -24 1327 621 ads

Ten High Cows—Over Five-year Class.

Calhoun, Lakewood .............. Rs II 11-10-24 299

Livingston No. 1. M. s. Sanitarium .......... PB H 12-43—21 23964.3 3'? 1.932%

Lll'lngston No. 1. M. J. McPherson ........... . PB H 11-15-24 2529.1 3'7 93'0“

Genesee No. :3, Taylor a Son ............ . Gr J 11—10-21 1758 5'3 031:

Clinton-Shiawnssee. J. F. Bowlby .......... PB H ........ 1894 4's 90'9

Clinton-Shlal’assee. 'A; v. Ba.l.lentine..... ...... PB H ........ 2195 4'0 87'8;x

Kalamazoo. No. .1. W. E. Balch ....... .. PB H 11- 8-24 1714.4 5'1 87'l‘

cunwmsmzlwasseej 111.3 Mfinm'fi”"' ..... ...... . PB 2052 4'2 su'éx

M . nette- 'gerh . . ,uetsc‘ ........ PB 1; 10-29—24 154“ ' '

515331.11 No, 3, Charles Radtord................... Gr H 11- 2-24 197i 2:3 3218;“

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er have not been particularly en-

couraging during recent years, the

many meetings held by live stock or-

ganizations during Farmers’ Week at

the Michigan Agricultural College,

were well attended and the keen inter-

est shown indicates that the live stock

men are confidently looking for better

times in the near future.



The Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of

the Michigan Improved Live Stock

Breeders’ and Feeders’ Association

was held Tuesday afternoon when the

following addresses were given: “M.

A. C.’s” New President,” by L Whit—

ney Watkins. Address, President K.

L. Butterfield. “The Dairy Situation

from a Statistical Standpoint,” by T.

R. Pirtle, Bureau of Agricultural Eco—

nomics, United States Department of

Agriculture, W'ashington, D. C. “Sell-

ing the Public,” by John M. Kelly, for-

merly with the National Holstein As-

sociation.



The officers elected for the coming

year are: President, Jacob DeGues,





Bad Axe; secretary, G. A. Brown, East

Lansing; assistant secretary, W. E. J.

Edwards, East Lansing; treasurer, H.

F. Probert, Jackson; executive com-

mittee, J. Lessiter, Orion; W. E. Liv-

ingston, Parma; H. W. Norton, Jr.,

Lansing; H. W. VVigman, Jr., Lansing.

Want Milking Shorthorns Recognized.



About seventy breeders were present

at the Michigan Shorthorn Breeders’

Association meeting. A movement was

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milking Shorthorns offered at the

Michigan State Fair. The following

officers were elected for the year:





President, S. H. Pangborn, Bad Axe;

vice—president, H. W. Hayes, Chelsea;

secretary-treasurer, W. E. J. Edwards,

East Lansing; directors, Jay Smith,

Ann Arbor; W. B. Mcquillan, Howell;

F. A. Clark, Ypsilanti; James Kirk,

Vassar; George Hoxie, Ionia.





Voted for Tour.



There was a. good attendance at the

Hereford Breeders’ Meeting. Those

present endorsed the Detroit Fat Stock

Show held in December, and decided

to conduct an auto otur among the

Hereford breeders of the Thumb Dis-

trict next summer. Officers elected for

the year are: President, James Camp-

bell, St. Johns; vicopresidents, E. C.

McCarty, Bad Axe; Dan Miller, Swartz

Creek; Harold Harwood, lonia; secre-

tary-treasurer, V. A. Freeman, of East

Lansing.



Will Support Detroit Show.



The Aberdeen-Angus Breeders held

an enthusiastic meeting and were in

favor of giving more liberal support

to the December Fat Stock Show in

Detroit—Their motto was, “An Angus

Herd at Every Michigan Fair.” The

officers for 1925 are: President, Sidney

Smith, Wildwood Farms, Orion; vice—

president, Avery Martin, Port Huron;

secretary-treasurer, James Curry, of

Mariette.





Red Polled Breeders' Select Officers.

The Red Polled breeders were not

out in large numbers, but showed con-

siderable enthusiasm. The officers for

the year are: President, N. C. Herbi—

son, Birmingham; secretary, M. R.

Westbrook, Ionia.





Ton Litter Winners Get Rewards.



A large crowd was in attendance at

the Michigan Swine Breeders’ Associ-

ation meeting. Of particular interest

was the presentation of gold medals

by Professor G. A. Brown to the win-

ners in the Ton Litter Contest, and the

talks by J. R. Pfander, secretary of

National Duroc Jersey Association, of

Peoria, Illinois, on “How Can we In-

crease the Demand for Pure-bred

Swine?” and Professor W. W. Smith,

Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana,

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ensuing year are: President, F. E.

Haynes, Hillsdale; vice-president,

John Nbon, Jackson; secretary, Virgil

Davis, Loeb Farms, Charlevoix.





Want Advanced Registry.



The Poland China. breeders at their

meeting discussed plans for an Ad-

vanced Registry for Michigan Poland

Chinas, based on a. weight scale for

different ages. The officers'for 1925

are: President, W. E. Livingston, of

Parma; vice-president, F. E. Haynes,

Hillsdale; secretary-treasurer, A; E.

Feldkamp, Manchester.





U rge Better Breeds.





The attendance at the Duroc Jersey

Breeders meeting was larger than has

been seen in recent years. J. R. Pfand-

er, of the National Duroc Jersey Asso-

ciation, stated that owing to the unfair

ratio between hogs and corn that had

existed for some time, many breeding

herds had been badly depleted While

many others had been‘dispersed. He

emphasized the importance of improv-

ing the quality of our herds now by

weeding out the inferior animals, prop—

er feeding, and by the addition of

choice individuals when they can be

purchased at comparatively low prices.

Mr. Pfander’s advice was, that in this

way breeders will be in a. position to

reap the full reward of advancing pric-

es which are somewhat apparent at

present, and which must go consider-

ably higher, owing to the scarcity

which will follow the period of liquida-

tion we have just passed through. Pro-

fessor W. E. J. Edwards, in his talk on

swine types brought out the point that

the experimental evidence at present

available is not sufficient to settle this

much discussed question and that

more work must be done before it can

be said that any one type is superior

to all others. The Duroc Jersey offi-

cers are: President, 0. F. Foster, of

Clarkston; secretary, F. J. Shaffer, of

Detroit.



Discuss Several Issues.



Pig club work, better feeding meth-

ods and other questions of interest

were discussed at the Chester White

Breeders’ meeting. Following are the

officers elected: President, John C.

Wilk, St. Louis; vice—president, Dan C.

Miller, Swartz Creek; secretary-treas-

urer, Frederick H. Knox, Portland.





0. l. C. Breeders Choose Officers.‘

The O. I. C. breeders discussed sev—

eral matters of interest and re—elected

the following officers: President, Ed-

ward A. Smith, Saline; secretary, E. R.

Morrish, Flint.

Plan For Drectory.





The Spotted Poland China Associa-

tion showed considerable activity con-

sidering that it is the youngest of the

State Swine Associations. Plans were

discussed for the publication of a

breeders’ directory and it was decided

to continue backing pig clubs. Officers:

President, G. S. Coffman, Goldwater;

secretary, C. L. Nash, Cassopolis.



The Hampshire Swine breeders met

and elected the following: President,

Lloyd Aseltine, \Villiamston; secre-

tary, Clarence L. Campbell, Parma.





Advanced Registry For Sheep.





Although the Michigan Fine Wool

Breeders’ Association was organized

but one year ago, sixty fine wool breed-

ers were present at their meeting. The

breeders were very enthusiastic and

confident that the wool market will

continue strong for some time. A com-

plete, program was outlined and adopt—

ed for the advanced registry of fine

wool sheep based on wool production.

The officers for 1925 are: President,

E. M. Moore, Mason; secretary-treas-

urer, R. J. Noon, Jackson.



Lamb Feeders Happy.



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to wear them. no buckle bole: to weaken them. Anselm

lace \ stands in use in every state.

Costs Less—Wears Longer

Saves repairs. Walsh special 9005:”) test leather, which

is explained in big free book. Easily adjusted to fit

any size bone. Made in ailstyles: back pad.side backer

breecblnzless. etc. :5 me. so a.” trial—balance i. '

paid monthly. Return to me if not nthlac-

tory. Write today f or my big free book. prices.

my terms. Sold direct to you by mail only.

I. M. WALSH. Pres.

WALSH _. HARNESS co. - ,

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Vwere fortunate in putting in ‘a large

number 'of feeder lambs early in the





season were particularly happy and





will no doubt show a good balance on

the right side of the ledger. The offi-

cers for the ensuing year are: Presi-

dent, Charles Burtless, Manchester;

secretary, V. A. Freeman, East Lan-

sing. .



Horse Breeders Discuss Pulling Con-



' tests.



Several questions of interest were

disicussed at the Michigan Horse

Breeders’ Association meeting. The

value of horse pulling contests in ad-

Vertising horses at our leading shows

was dealt with at length. Officers for

the year are: President, L. C. Hunt,

Eaton Rapids; vice-president, Sidney

Smith, Crion; secretary-treasurer, R.

S. Hudson, East Lansing.





 





SHEEP AT CHATHAM.





EPORTING on the results obtained



. from the flock of sheep of the

Michigan Agricultural College Experi-

ment Station at Chatham, Upper Pe-

ninsula, Mr. G. W. Putnam, the direct~

or of the station, states that the flock

consists of 236 ewes, thirty-one year-

lings, and fourteen rams. These sheep

are either pure-breds or cross-breeds

from the Hampshires, Shropshires and

Rambouillet breeds.



Last year the last lamb of the flock

was born on May 12. “We sent to pas-

ture 236 lambs from the 236 ewes, says

Mr. Putnam, which is regarded as a

very satisfactbry lamb crop. The first

income from the flock came from the

wool clip, which Was light, averaging



.25 pounds per fleece. Wool prices

were good, however, and the flock net-

ted from wool $630.48.



The flock went to pasture on May 10.

These pastures are typical cut—over

land pasture and comprised 250 acres,

fenced with woven wire fencing and

having running water. Reed was

abundant. The pasture is broken up

into three lots and the sheep are ro—

tated from one lot to another, thus

keeping free from parasites. Also old

pastures renew themselves in a few

weeks. Up to shipping time—October

27~-seventeen lambs were lost out of

the 236 sent to pasture in the spring.



In the fall the surplus stock for

which there was no winter feed was

turned off and sold on the Chicago

market. The returns on 220 lambs

thus sold, aggregating 16,060 pounds,

were $1,895.25. The shipping expense

was $160.57, leaving net returns of

$1,734.68. The total returns from the

flock for the season were $2,365.16,

available for outlay for pasture, labor,

winter feed and overhead.



The station wintered 225 ewes, twen-

ty-five ewe lambs to replace culls that

were sold, and thirteen rams. Last

summer there were put in storage fifty

tons of clover hay and about twenty

tons of peas and oats to carry the flock

well through the winter to a time

about six weeks before breeding sea-

son, when there will be fed daily about

a half-pound of oats to each ewe along

with a small dose of potassium iodide

to prevent goiter. Mr. Putnam asserts

that sheep are well adapted to thgcut-

over country and when properly hand-

led will afford a nice profit one year

with another.





 





 





START LAMBS EARLY.





USUALLY the lambs put on the ear-



ly summer market in prime condi-

tion bring the biggest price. We have

secured as much as two to three dol-

lars more per hundredweight than

could be had a month or more later.

In order to get lambs, on the market

early and in the best condition, it is

necessary to start them on feed as

soon in the spring as they will begin





to eat. They usually show a desire for





some feed within two weeks after they

are born, when they begin to nibble

at their mother’s feed in the racks.



,At this time it is a good plan to





' 5 - . . - that has large litters of pigs.

prov1de a. creep on one Side of the shed last litter was nineteen, and as

can only raise twelve of them, I should





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and arrange suitable boxes to put feed





 





 





Icgan lbe done albaout it.

rec enridge, ich.~Waste no valu-il .

able time or money, is my advice to ’ ROHLFS’ Amn' MM“

you. -



Weak Sheep—I have a flock of i D I s p e r S a I

sheep, heavy with lamb, have lost two,

and two more are sick. At first the

animal acts as if weak,

two go blind, refuse to

three or four days die.

erinary

worms.

any liver worms.

Mich.——If your sheep suffer from liver-

fluke they are“ incurable.

they may have some other variety of

intestinal parasite, or may have grub

in the head.

examination of one, then write us.





in for them. Some clover hay should

be supplied them. A good grain ration

is made up of three parts of corn by

weight, and two parts of oats; or two

parts corn, and two parts wheat bran,

and one part- oats. Linseed meal is

also excellent to use with grain mix-

tures after the lambs become three or

four weeks'old, as it is laxative and

rich in protein. By using suflicient

protein in the lambs’ feed it will be

found much easier to properly dry the

ewes off by the time, or before, the

lambs are sold. .



In order to improve the appearance

of the lambs and to make them fatten

rapidly, their tails should be docked

and all the males castrated. This work

is done most satisfactorily before the

lambs are more than two or three

weeks old. Nice, trim-appearing lambs





often sell much better than those not

properly attended to in this respect.—

J. L. Justice.





 





u i‘cs. so. N ' N R MM R





like to 'know how to start them. J.

H., Kingston, Mich—The sow’s milk

is very rich, therefore you should feed

them milk from your best cow, also

be particular about keeping the feed-

ing utensils clean.





Chronic Nasal Catarrh.-—‘We have

two good cats, but both have catarrh,

one of them has been ailing for two

years'. They are fat and both good

hunters. J. VV., Grass Lake, Mich.—

Dissolve a teaspoonful of bicarbonate

of soda in one-half pint of tepid water,





.then dip nose into this solution once





or twice a day.





Live on Cattle.—If cattle are fed a

mixture of sulphur and salt, will it

prevent them from being troubled by

lice? C. H., North Star, Mich—No, it

will not.





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for her. H. S., Millington, Mich.——Ap

ply equal parts tincture of iodine and

camphorated oil twice a day. When

bunch softens, open it.





Hip Lameness.—~I have a horse that

seems to have trouble when stepping

sideways and for some time he has

shown some lameness. A. E. K, Lud-

ington, Mich.——Apply equal parts of

turpentine, aqua ammonia, raw linseed

oil to hip and stifle daily.





Exostosis.—Have mare with a small

hard bunch on shin, which causes no

lameness. What shall I apply? J. N.

D. C., Fowler, Mic.h.——Clip off hair, ap-

ply tincture of iodine daily.



Cow Fails to Come in Heat—Cow

calved in September, 1924, since then

she has failed to come in heat. She is

a young cow and has had two calves.

F 8., Fremont, Mich—Give her one

dram of fluid extract of nux vomica

and a tablespoonful of bicarbonate of

soda in ground feed or in drinking wa—

ter twice a day.



Calves Shed Hair.—Our calves have

skin trouble and the hair is shedding,

but they are thrifty. B. R., Three Oaks,





 





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' Aberdeen-Angus. six bulls from

RegIStered eight to sixteen months. large and

growthy. Price reasonable. F. I. WILBER, CIIO. Mich.





 





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AYRSHIRE BULL iig’o’bm‘it": £18k, 4138"}..‘T‘la‘é

in 10 months. Also herd bull. Accredited Herd.

IRA EBY. Wakamla. Ind.





built into .





 

 





 





 





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n—mo





' ' Young Bulls up to 8 month-

Quallfy "Olden” of ago. Good Individuals and

Well Bred. at from $50 to 375. according to age.



I. M. SHORMAN, Fowlorville. Michp





° ' ' Our bulls of service-

Fmancval King Jerseys able m an, all sold,

but we have a few bull calves of excellent breeding.

sired by our great herd sire, Financial King Sensa-

tion. Our prices are reasonable. COLDWATER JER-

SEY FARM. Goldwater, Mich.





JERSEY BULL Dropped Mar. 2. 1924. Sire.





Fauvic’s McKay. is by a dou-

ble grandson of Fauvic’s Prince. His dam. Senator‘s

Surprise, R. of M. record 485 lbs. butter at 2. yrs. 3

mo. of age. She is a doublegranddaughter 0! Oxford

Daisy's Flying Fox. Jane A. Kline, Gladwln. Mich.





MICHIGAN JERSEY CATTLE CLUB





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

on individuals or curlonds. R. of M. an Cow Test-

ing Association records.



H. E. DENNISON, Field Man. East. Lansing. Mich





Jerseys For Sale

R. of M. dams.

n. n. m. 4.





Bulls ready for service.

also a few females. All from

Accredited herd. Smith G. Parker.





Howell. Mich.

15 Cows. 4 bulls from R. of M. Cows. Chance to





select from herd of 70. Some fresh, othm bred

for fall freshenlng. Colon C. Lillie. Cooperaville. Mich.





m. :

ELM LAWN SHORTHORNS 3“?..3’“M..§3‘2.§i "tiller;





HARRY CROSBY, Grand Blanc, Mich.





 





 





 





 





l .

1 Best of quality and breeding. Bulls,

’ Shorthoms cows and heifers for sale. BIDWELL





lsrocx FARM. Box 0, Tecumseh. Mich.





v'

Shorthorns For Sale

both sexes. Barr & Curtiss. South Bay City. Mich.





 





 





Polled Shorlhorns ifiii..z1‘i‘“ii...§.“‘“$..if:

QUACK,





R. 2. Sault Ste. Marie. Mich.





Red PoIIed Cattle £3.13;





 





cows and heifers.





 





 





 





Yorkshire Swine.

DON P. CARR. Homer. Mich.

HOGS



for sale. Type and anal-





 





‘o. I. C’s





Dunno JERSEY SWINE ity our aim. Write your





wants. W. E. BARTLEY. Alma. Mich.





 





Duroc Sows and Gilts





Choice sows and gilts bred to Michigan’s Grand Cham<

pion Boar for March and April furrow. Also a few

swine boars. LAKEFIELD FARM, Clarkston, Mich.





 





I last spring pigs. either sex, not skin. from

U-l-c 3 big strong stock. recorded free. OTTO B.

SCHULZE & SONS, Nashville. Mich.





 





Registered and shipped on ap-

proval. Bred gills, tried sows.

service boars. and pigs at Farmers" prices. Earle R.

Morrish. Morrish Crouing on D. U. R. Atherton





Road. Route 6. Flint. Mich.





 





O I (:9 Fall pigs, Sired by “Giant Boy” and

0 - S “Jumbo's Bell Boy._” Brown Swvss

Bulls. Milo H. Peterson, R. 2, loma. Mich.





 





0

Re vstered Guernseys

LONE Pi E RANGER our new Herd SIRE has a.

Dam with an A. R. 0. record 936 lat. When in the

market for better Guemseys. write GILMORE BROS..

Camden, Mich.: J. W. WILLIAMS. No. Adams. Mich.





 





Springing cows. bred

Rescuemseys For Sale an... Bull on...

w. w. sunnvcx. Williamston, Mich.





 





 





Reg. Guernsey Cows, Bulls and

Bull Calves. . R. Record May

JOHN EBELS, R. 2, Holland. Mich.





For Sale





R050 Breeding.





 





 





Mich—Apply one part oxide of zinc

and eight parts vaseline to bald parts

once a day. Do you groom your calves

and keep the skin clean?





Swollen Hock.—VVe have a valuable

Jersey calf with swollen hock, which

is painful. E. F., Kalkaska, Mich.—

Apply equal parts tincture of iodine

and spirits of camphor to hock three

times a week.



Soft Bunch on Udder.—I have a cow

that has soft bunch on bag and I be—

lieve it contains blood. This cow is in

fine health, bunch is not tender. She

was tuberculin-tested last summer. M.

S., Fruitport, Mich—Leave the bunch

alone.



Heifers Have Never Been in Heat.—

I have two Holstein heifers which will





 





39 LBS. AT PONTIAC





Pontiac State Hospital announces a record of

39.06 lbs. butter and 580.7 lbs. milk, just

completed by Pontiac 066499 at 4

years 7 months of age.

PONTIAC BLOOD WILL TELL



As a Sr. 2—ycar-old Pontiac Burine made. 17.‘

403.9 lbs. milk and 704.33 lbs. of butter,

showing. that she is not merely a seven—day 1

row. She is a daughter of Flint iiengnrveld

Lad. a former herd sire at Pontiac State

Hospital. and a great grandson of one of the.

sires that made the Pontiars famonseiriien-

gervcld DcKoL



DO YOU WANT A PONTIAC IN YOUR



HERD?





Barine





Write for our list of bulls from Pontiac and

other MICHIGAN §TATE HERDS.





Bureau of





Animal Industry

Dept. C





Lansing, Michigan





 





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STATE HEADS





 

 

   

 





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soon be two years old, have. never no-





 





ticed either of them in heat. Had I

better treat them? R. R. B., Fremont,

Ind—Give each heifer thirty grains of

powdered, or ground nux vomica, and

a teaspoonful of ginger at a dose in





 





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cow last summer, which was represent— lsaie.

ed to be with calf and would freshen l G





in December, but she shows no indica-

tion of being with calf. The man I





of Registered and grade Ilolsteim. Brown Swiss and

_ 1(illt‘l‘llSl‘3’5 will be sold Mun-Ii llilli at

ground feed tw1ce a day. 5 Farms stables at Grass Lake by the Grass Lake (‘ow



COW Not With Calf.—I purchased a 1 lusting AHSm'lflIiOIl.





6O HEAD





the Village





 





All animals owned by mennbersl

if this :i..~'sm-iation. and records will be given at that

Address Box 19,





rass Lake, Michigan





Asking for Catalog.





 





bought the cow from hasn’t any prop-

erty and I should like to know what

Mrs. I. E. S.,





of 15 Registered Holsteins. n. A. Hodges, Belmont, Mic





.‘nlves by same sire, at the right price. E.





' Gilts bred to son of Lengthy

CheSter Whltes Prince, Iowa grand champion.





also fall and summer pigs. C. O. I). ALBERT

DORR, Clinton, Mich.





Francisco Farm Poland Chinas





Now oll'crim.v some wonderful bred gills. granddaugh-

tors of National Grand (fhampionmnt prices you can

pay. P. P. POPE. Mt. Pleasant, Mich.





Big Type Poland Chinas

Choice gilts bred for Mar. & April farrow, for sale.

WESLEY HILE, Ionia. Mich.





 





 





 





either sex. by the great Boar, The

Wolverine. Priced reasonable. Boat

Livingston, Parma. Mich.





Fall Pigs

of dams. W. E.



Large Type Poland Chinas either

For Sale sex. Also Brown Swiss Bulls.

A. A. FELDKAMP, Manchester, Mich.





 





 





- Illt'fl spring and fall Boar's.

HampShIres For Sale (‘hliirc bred gilts. 12m year.

JOHN W. SNYDER, R. 4. St. Johns, Mich.





SHEEP

25 R"? d Si .h' E

FOR SALE To Sigilt('lliiiiibiiigog‘lidzi‘: Avril-:1





Ist. H. A. HEBBLEWHITE. Armada. Mich.





FOR SALE





20 Registered Black Top Dclnine ewes; Ton ewe

lambs. and ten owes from one to five years old. Ewes

bred to prizo winning rams. $000 takes the bunch.

W. C. HENDEE do SON, Pinckney. Mich.





20 Registered





exceptiond quality.

tablished 1890.





 





 





 





 





 





Shropshire owes 1—5 yrs‘. old. bred

for Mar. and April, to ram of

Also 20 ewe lambs. Flook es-

0. LEMEN 8. SONS. Dexter. Mich.





SHEEP FOR SALE Sgil‘l’ieuistered Hump-





Ewes. Bred to

Prize Winningr Rams. to Lamb in April. A. M.

WELCH & SON. Ionia, Mich.





Breeding Ewes

B. FURNISS, Nashville. Mich.





 





 





for sale. extra good

young Delainos. V.





 





one Reg. Holstein 10.000 Yvarlim: Ewes. Muy delivery.



F O R S A L E Bull six months am; For sale Feeding lambs contracted for October



sired by our 33.58»lb. Bull. Also some nice Bull delivery. C. H. Shurte. UDIOH SIOCK Yards. Chicago. "I.

A.





 





 





 





HORSES





 





Sale





 





1 Percheron Stallion, 3 cars old.

For Sale of The Ton Type. E.y R. Van

vollenburg. Milan. Mich.





 





in a day or

eat, then in

Our local vet-

thought they might have

I out one open, failed to find

R. E. C., St. Charles,





However,





Please make a careful





Feeding Orphan Pigs—I have a sow

This

she





 





PARMA JERSEY FARM

the leading herd in Jack





Michigan Jersey Breeders Attention.





Complete Dispersal





37—HEAD OF REGISTERED AND PURSE BRED JERSEYS—37





L. A. SEDGWICK, Owner, Parma, Mich.





MARCH 9, 192

son county cow testing associations for three years

leading with 50% of the high 10 cows for 3 yrs.

GET A CAR LOAD OF THE BES

PRISING THE 16 GRANDDAUGH

FOX BY HIS SON OUT OF SEG

COW, 923.4 lbs. butter





BULLS IN THE STATE OF MICH. Th

lbs. butter from 11,905

this choice herd, as we





PARMA, MICH.





AN OPPORTUNITY TO





T C. T. A. JERSEYS in MICH., COM-

TERS OF OXFORD DAISY’S FLYING

NAL’S VARIELLA 252717, Gold Medal

from 13,736 lbs. milk, and 11 daughters of SOPHIE’S

he herd sire, ONE OF THE BEST' BRED BUTTER





e average of his 6 nearest dams 750.5





lbs. milk. Write for catalog and learn more about

have proof that they pay at the pail.





.I. F: RUPPERT. Auctioneer, Perry, Mien.





Write M. E. Blou, Sales Manager. Vernon. Mich. for Catalog.
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‘lMARKET





GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Tuesday, February 24.





Detroit—No.- 1 red $1.91; No. 2 red

$1.98; No. 2 white $1.90; No. 2 mixed

$1.9





Chicago—July $15614 @1.56%; Sep-

tingbgr $1.43%@1.44; May $1.871/2@





Toledo—Wheat $1.89%@1.901/2.

Corn.

Detroit—No. 3 yellow $1.25; No. 4

yellow $1.20; No. 5 yellow $1.15. .

Chicago—July $1.30%; September

$1.29%; May $1.29%@1.2914.

Oats.

Detroit—No. 2 white at 550; .No. 3

white 540. -

Chicago—July 54%@54%c; Septem.

ber 53%0; May 55140. ‘

Rye.

Detroit.—-Cash N0. 2, $1.55.

Chicago—July $1.36; September at

$11914; May $1.61%.

Toledo—$1.48.

Beans.

Detroit—Immediate and

shipment $6.10@6.15 per cwt.

Chicago.——Navy, choice at $6.65; red

kidneys $10.50Q‘11.

New York.——(‘hoice pea $7.15@7.25;

red kidneys $10.25@10.75.





 





 





 





developed. These shifts may sustain

prices around the present levels, but

they are hardly extensive enough to

bring about a large advance.





HORSES





The horse market is quite firm as

there is the best demand for farm

chunks noted in several years and re-

ceipts of draft horses are not sufficient

to supply the demand. Prices for farm

chunks have advanced $15@20 a head

since the season opened several weeks

ago, although very few are selling

above $150 as that seems to be the

absolute limit with most buyers on

horses weighing 1,300 to 1,450 pounds—

Choice drafters are bringing $500 to

$550 for well-matched teams, with a.

list of waiting orders to be filled at





those figures.

‘ SEEDS





Seed prices were reduced last week.

Stocks of red clover seed, which con-

sist largely of ordinary to low quality

stuff, were being liquidated, and even

the active consumptive demand was

unable to absorb the increased offer-

ings at steady prices. Demand was

accelerated by a few days of warm

weather, but the heavy spring trade

has not started in earnest as yet.





prompt,





Barley. EE

Detroit.~—Malt‘ing $1.01; feeding 950. , F DS _

Buckwheat. Feed prices declined sharply again

Detroit—$2.25!” 223 last week. Wheat feeds have suffered

' Seeds. the most. Production of all feeds is





heavy and consumptive demand is very

light for this season of the year. Tank-

age prices have finally weakened and

prices in shipping markets were mark-

ed down to $55 a. ton.





HAY





In spite of more moderate receipts

last week, the hay market was easier

with prices lower. The few days of

mild weather restricted demand and

the effect of the colder weather fol-

lowing has not been felt as yet. An

abundance of low grade hay on the

market is hard to move, but better

grades are scarce and more desired.

The year’s bumper hay crop is being

pushed on the market faster than it

can be absorbed.





POULTRY AND EGGS





Steadily increasing receipts of fresh





Detroit.——Prime red clover cash at

$18.10; alsike $12.80; timothy $2.95.





Hay.



Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $160117;

standard and light mixed at $15@16;

No. 2 timothy at $14le15; No. 1 clo-

ver and No. 1 clover mixed $14@15;

wheat and eat, straw $10.50@11; rye

straw $12.50@l3.



Feeds.



Detroit—Bran at $32; standard

middlings at $33; fine middlings $39;

cracked corn $55; coarse cornmeal at

$54; chop $44.



Apples.



Chicago prices on apples: Northern

Spies at $8.50@9 bbl; Baldwins $6.50

@675: Jonathans $9.50 bbl; Kings at

$6.50@7; Greenings $7019.50 bbl; \Vag-

eners $5.25@5.50 bbl; Grimes $5.50@

5.75; Starks $6@6.50; Ben Davis $5@

5.50.





WHEAT





 





 

 





 





‘4 .. ~





eggs have broken prices to the lowest

levels of the year. Retail prices tum-

bled likewise and consumption has un-

doubtedly shown some response. Stor-

age eggs are practically gone so that

:the trade is almost entirely on a fresh

egg basis. With receipts increasing

so rapidly, still lower prices in the

i mediate future are probable.



hicago.—Eggs, miscellaneous 31%

@32c; dirties 30c; checks 29c; fresh

firsts 32%@33c; ordinary firsts 30@31c.

Live poultry, hens 24c; springers 26c;

roosters 180; ducks 27c; geese 19c;

turkeys 25c.



Detroit—Eggs, fresh ’candled and

graded 34%@36c. Live poultry,.heavy

springers 280; light springers 22@23c;

heavy hens 28c; light hens 22@23c;

roosters 16@17c; geese 18@200; ducks

30@32c; turkeys 35c.





BUTTER





Fresh butter prices have had a

steady advance, gaining more than

two cents a pound in the past week.

Sentiment. in the market is gradually

assuming a more confident tone. The

make of fresh butter is not increasing

very rapidly and receipts at- the four

leading markets to date are nearly

two million pounds smaller than a year

ago. The surplus is being steadily cut

down. Foreign markets are stronger.



Prices on 92-score creamery: Chica-

go 400; New York 41c; Boston 41%c;

Philadelphia 420. Detroit 37@3917éc

for No. 1 creamery in tubs.





CHEESE





The cheese market has been quiet

during the past week and prices are

slightly lower. Receipts of fresh cheese

from Wisconsin were materially larger

than in the preceding week, demand

was slow, and concessions were offered

in some instances in an effort to pre-

Vent accumulation.





BEANS





After holding around $6.20 per hun-

dred pounds for choice hand-picked

whites f. o. b. Michigan shipping

points the bean market advanced at

the close of last week to $6.25@6-30,

with $6.40 asked for March shipment.

There is some doubt as to whether the

advance will hold as there seems to be

only a moderate amount of buying by

distributors. Both canners and whole-





 





Wheat prices have recovered about

one-fourth of the loss from the ex—

treme high point of the season. The

run of wheat to primary markets at-

tracted by the $2 level has subsided.

Some indication of improved export

business have appeared. The specu-

lative situation is more healthy as a

result of the cleaning out of weak

holders. Russia is reported as a buy-

er, both in Canada and European mar-

kets. On the other hand, the heavy

world shipments for the last several

weeks have relieved the tension

abroad and some reports of reselling

have been current. it is too early in

most sections to determine how the

crop came through the winter, but no-

where is there evidence of severe win-

ter killing. Kansas reports that Wheat

is greening up in splendid fashion, but

the Pacific northwest has a poor out-

look because 01' damage last fall and

the dry area in Texas seems to be ex-

tending into Oklahoma.





RYE





The rye market is still governed

largely by the action of wheat. No

Sign has appeared that the large vis-

ible supply will be moved out during

the next few months, and there is

rather clear evidence that importing





CHICAGO





Hogs.



Receipts 32,000. Market fairly active,

steady to 10c higher; tops at $11.95;

all good and choice 190 to 340-lb. butch-

ers at $11.50@11.85; 140 to 170-lb. av-

erage, largely at $10.75@11.20; fresh

packing sows $10.60(a‘310.80; pigs most-

ly at $10@10.50.



Cattle.





Receipts 12,000. Choice fed steers

and yearlings steady, others slow and

lower; most other classes are steady;

shippers strong; bulls easy; vealers

25(0500 up; fat matured steers $11.25;

some held higher; best yearlings at

$11.50; shippers active; bulk vealers

to packers $11@12; light kind down

to $10.50, and below; shippers at $13.50

and better.





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 14,000. Fat lambs general-





countries are curtailing their pur- ly steady to strong; early bulk $17.25

chases. The large export sales report- frI‘17.75; tops $17.90; best held higher;

ed in January and early February have fat sheep strong; EOOd 118-1b- $83757]?

not yet been reflected in the clear- $9.25; fat lambs 250 higher; tops at





ances. $17.25; other sales down to $16.75.





DETROIT





Cattle.

Market steady, clos-





CORN





Corn prices have been stronger in

the last week, chiefly because of a de-

cline in the m0vement to primary mar-

kets. Receipts at present are less than

half as large as they were three weeks

ago, and are. among the smallest at

this season for the last fifteen years.





Receipts 360.

ing slow.

Good to choice yearlings



dry—fed ....... . . .$ 9.00@10.00

Best heavy steers, dry—fed 8.00@ 8.75





Demand from shippers and industries Handyweight butchers 7.00@ 8.00

has shown but little improvement, but Mixed steers and heifers 6.00@ 7.50

the lighter receipts have reduced the Handy light butchers... 550@ 6.50

amount accumulating at the terminals Light butchers ........... 4.50@ 6.00

from day to day. Export sales are out Best cows ............... 5.00@ 5.50

of the question, as prices are much Butcher cows ........... 4.0061) 4.50

above the world level. Cutters ................. 3.00@ 3.50

OATS Canners ................. 2.25@ 3.00

Choice bulls . . . . . . . . .00@ 6.00

The decline of about ten cents in Heavy bologna bulls 450@ 5.50

oats prices resulted in noticeable im- Stock bulls .............. .00617 5.50

provement in the demand and tended Feeders ............ 0061) 7.00

to shut off the movement from the Stockers . 0@ .





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country. A little export buying has Milkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.00@70.00





 





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Tuesday, February 24.





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 347. Market slow.





Best lambs .............. $17.25@17.50

Fair to good sheep ...... 7.55@ 7.75

Light to common . . . . 9.00@ 14.00

Yearlings ....... ~ ~ ........ 13.50@14.50

Fair to good sheep ....... 8.00@ 9.00

Culls and common .. 4.00@ 6.50

Buck lambs ............. 7.00@16.00





Veal Calves.

Receipts 521. Market slow, closing





500 lower.

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

Others .................. 5.00@14.00





Hogs.



Receipts 681. Market strong to 15@

25c higher.

Mixed hogs, heavy y’rkrs.$11.95@12.00

Pigs .................... 8.00@10.00

Yorkers ................. 11.50@11.75

Little yorkers ........... 1100601125

Roughs ................. 7.00@10.00

Stags .................... ‘ 6.00





BUFFALO





Hogs.



Receipts 370. Market is closing

steady. Heavy sold at $12.40@12.50

medium $12.10@12.25; light at $12@

12.40; light lights $11@11.50; pigs at

$10.25@11; packing sows and roughs

$10.50@10.75.





’





Cattle.

Receipts 1,150. The market is

steady, With steers from 1,100 lbs.

up at $7@9.75; steers 1,100 lbs.





down $6@9.75; load of yearlings at



$10.50; heifers $5.50@8; cows $2.50@6;



bulls $4@5; asking $10 for loads of



steers. '

Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 2,800. Tops $15; culls $15

$17.50@17.75; culls at $16.75 down;

yearlings at $14.50@15; wethers $10.50

@11; ewes $9@9.50.





Calves.





Receipts 2,800. Tops $15; culls $15

down.





 





 

   

 

 





sale grocers are taking beans only a!

needed from day to day and are nob

booking orders ahead. Warmer weatht

er is not far away and this affects con-

sumption of beans materially. 0n the '

other hand, deliveries from the grow-

ers are hardly up to normal for this

season of the year as many are looking:

for a much higher market. Stocks in

the hands of elevators are moderate.





WOOL





The wool market is showing more

weakness than at any time since lasfi

summer. Merino wools in Australianl

sales are quoted about 15 per cent low«

or than in’ December, and are on a‘

basis which makes imports easily pos-

sible. Domestic prices have made lit-

tle or no headway upward for twd

months. Many interests think thatl

wool has reached the top. Buyers oil

cloth since the openings on fall lines,

have operated cautiously because of

the weakness in wool prices, giving

the mills no great encouragement tot

accumulate raw material. Contracting

of new clip wools in the west: is very;





quiet.

POTATOES





Eastern potato markets have dech

ed sharply, but midwestern markets

are steady. Carlot shipments are run-

ning fully 25 per cent larger than 8.11

the same time a year ago. Prices are

15 to 35 cents per 100 pounds lower

than last year. Northern sacked round

whites, U. S. No. 1, are quoted at $1.16

to $1.20 per 100 pounds in the Chicago

carlot market.





APPLES





Apple prices are steady at practi-

cally unchanged levels. Shipments

from the three leading boxed apple

states last week totaled 290 cars, com-

pared with 1,080 cars during the cor-

responding period a pear ago. The

week’s movement from the barreled

apple'states, totaling 640 cars, was

more nearly normal. Illinois No. 2%-

inch fancy Willow Twigs are selling

at $8@8.50 at Chicago, and New York

A—21,é-inch Baldwins bring $6.75@7.





GRAND RAPIDS





Egg prices were lower in Grand Ran-

ids early this week, heavier receipts

and weaker outside markets depress-

ing values sharply. Poultry was high-

er and butter-fat climbed to 420 per

pound. All greenhouse products were

easier and lower. Prices quoted to

farmers were: Leaf lettuce 130 lb;

radishes 600 dozen bunches; rhubarb

12@15c lb; cabbage $1 bu; carrots,

parsnips, beets $1 bu; potatoes 45@,'

55c buywheat $1.68 bu; rye $1.15 buy

barleyx$l.10 bu; buckwheat $1.85 cwt;

beans $5.50 cwt; pork 14(5)]50 lb; beef

10@1lc lb; veal 14@15c lb; poultry,

heavy fowls and springers 23@250 lb;

ducks 24@250 lb; eggs 32@34c dozen;

butter—fat 31@320 1b.





DETROIT CITY MARKET?





Northern Spy apples Were in ready,

demand. Potato prices tended down‘

ward. The demand for cabbage con-

tinued slow, but carrots, parsnips and

other roots sold more briskly. Egg

prices ranged about 50 lower, and sell-

ing was only moderate. The demand

for live poultry was fairly strong, but

rather light for dressed stock. There

was little call for dressed veal and





hogs.



Prices were: Apples $1@3.50 per

bu; beets 65(71‘75c bu; cabbage 65@750

bu; carrots 65@75c bu; celery 75c@}

$1.25 dozen; horseradish $3@5.50 bu;

dry onions, No. 1, $1.50 bu; potatoes,

N0. 1, 55@65c bu; rutabages 75c bu;

squash $2 bu; turnips $1.50@2 bu;

honey $1.25 per 5—lb. pail; butter 50@}

550 lb; eggs, Wholesale 450 dozen; re-

tail 45@550 dozen; hens, wholesale 28

((7300 lb; retail 28@32c lb; springers,

wholesale 28@300 lb; retail 28@32c

lb; ducks, wholesale 350 lb; veal 18@l

190 lb; hogs 160 lb: dressed poultry,

hens 35@380 lb; springers 35@38c lb.





COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.





 





 





. Holsteins.

March 5—Musolff Bros, South Lyons,

Mich.





March 12~(Dispersal), A. R. Black &'

Sons, R. 7, Lansing, Mich.

Guernseys- _

March 25—Consignment sale, Saginaw

Fair Grounds, Geo. J. Hicks, Man-

ager, Saginaw W. S.

Jerseys. ,

March 9——Jersey Farm, Parma, ’Mlch.

Holsteins—Brown Swiss.

Mfiflil 10—Village'Farms, Grass Lake.
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feed, but high in price. . A great num-'

. ber of western- lands are being fed

throughoutthe county, some young





" cattle arc‘also on feed. There seems





to be a fair demand for. good draft.

horses. light horsesare a drug on

the market. Milch cows are bringing

from $65 to $125, according to the

time of freshening, and the value of

the animal.—-D. 'H. N.

Tuscola County.—-Not as many cattle

on feed as usual. Prices are good.

Farmers are looking for a. better sea-

son. At this time many social affairs

/are taking place among the neighbors.





 





 

 





 

 





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Write for free casein; and low prices.

“IRMA" IIPAIATOI CO.

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Lake Land Fur Exchange, Salem

Mich. We here special outlets for

Muskrats. Write for price list. Will

call for lots of over $500.





 





' vines 1 yr. No. 1 $25 per

GORGOI‘d Gl’flDO 1000. Fruit trees. small fruit

plants and Shrubbery. Send for free catalogue.

FEATHER’S NURSERIES, Baroda. Mich.





 





the first of February. live stock is;





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' We‘are an exclusive meat house

and are equipped to handle to your

advantage veal and hog shipments.



Guaranteeing best results

and prompt retinas.





M. A. 013133331: & Co.





WHOLESALE MEATS

2460 Riopelie, Detroit, Michigan'





For Best Results Ship Direct to





DETROIT BEEF CO.,

Detroit, Mich.





DRESSED CALVES

DRESSED Hoes

suchING pros

LIVE POULTRY

. DRESSED POULTRY





Write for Free Shippers’ Guide





CALVES CALVES CALVES





SHIP TO





 





 





 





Otto F. Bernstein

2478 Riopelle Street, Detroit, Mich.

largest and Oldesl Exclusive Veal Merchants in City.





We give your shipments our personal attention, get

you, BETTER PRICES and QUICKER RETURNS as

we always have an outlet for veal.



Est. 1895. Ask your Bank for References.





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FORRENT—My farm-110 Incresw F «I L‘ .

554 miles north of Fowlerville on stout}:J roam.

Collier. Fowler-ville. Mich.





 

 





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Chicks 150. ‘ Myron Mung.“ CloverdslefiuMigh.mm¢





SINGLE con 1mm Lanai Pallets for sale. se-

lected Stock. 82 each. Geo SAllsn. Box 7. Redfoni,

Mich. Phone Pennington pm.





 





 





 





EGG CRATES~Ws are in position to supply you at

all times with good second hand egg crates, including

fillers and flats. and a. one-piece cover, complete for

shipping at the following rates: Carload lots F. 0.

B, Detroit. 10c each. less than carload lots 18c each.

Wm, Spitz & Sons, 2645 Chene St.. Detroit, Mich.

1571 Mcrwln Ave. Cleveland, 0.





FARIII DITCH DIGGER—Havo you ditching to do?

Write C. G. Alden. 225 E. Tenth Street. Eric, Pi.





 





TRACTOR STARTERS FOR FORDSONS—literature

free. ('limux Tractor Starter CO., Climax. Mich.





"TANCRED" White LeEhorhs—Barred Rocks—State

Fair Winners. Buir Orplngtons. Guineas. Fenner

Bailey, Montgomery, Mich.





 





RUFF ORPINGTON hatching eggs from high class

birds. Also Buir Duck eggs. Bert Bailey. R. 11.

Holland. Mich.





S. C. R. 1. RED COCKERELS—Good color. Selected

stock. O. .E. Hewley & gen. R. 3, Ludington. Mich.





S. C. RHODE ISLAND RED cockerels. Mshood

Strain, $4. Alfred Deichmann. Pigeon. Mich.





 





 





 





BEFORE YOU BUY a gas engine. be sure to get the

facts about The Edwards Farm Engine. Sold on your

own terms. .Write for free circulars and full informa-

tion. Edwards Motor CO., 19 Main St., Spring-

field. Ohio.





 





TOBACCO





 





HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing. 5 lbs. $1.50: Ten.

$2.50. Smoking. 5 lbs.. $1.25: Ten. 82. Pay when

received. pipe and recipe free. Farmers' Union.

I‘aduceh. Ky.





 





 





SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK





FROST PROOF Cabbage Plants and Tomato Plants.

Varieties: Early Jersey and Charleston Wakefield.

Copenhagen Market, Flat Dutch and Succession. To-

mato: Greater Baltimore, Earliana and Livingston

Globe. Prices, Parcel Post Paid, 500, $1.50; 1,000,

$2.50. Express collect. $1.25. 1,000. We ship the

size of plant you wish. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Tit'ton Potato Company. Inc.. T'u‘ton. Ga.





 





 





HARDY FIELD GROWN~Chrysanthcmums sweet

wiliiam, daisies and all old-fashioned or hardy per-

ennial flowers. Iris. cannas. gladiolus, and tuberose

bulbs. Spiraeas. shrubbcry. climbing vines, roses, or-

namental trees and hedging. Strawberry plants. Rhu-

barb and asparagus roots. Thousands of satisfied cus-

tomers. Delivered prepaid prices. Send for catalogue.

Weaver Gardens. Wichita. Kansas.





 





Seed Corn and Seed Oats





My drying house is filled with Clement’s Improved

White Cap yellow dent and Duncan's yellow dent

seed corn. Fire dried on racks, ear tested, guaranteed

germination from high yielding stook. Registered .and

certified Worthy Oats. Developed by the Michigan

Agricultural College. Heavy yielders with a. still

straw. Write for prices.





 





PAUL C. CLEMENT. Britten. Michigan.





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Ardenteenie Stock Farm Dispersal

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36 Registered Holsteins





Under State and Federal Supervision





This includes Michigan’s Grand Champion hull of 1922. Capital Cream Jupiter IIcngcrvcld.

and his daughter. undefeated junior heifer calf in Mic-11.. 1924, together with 14 of her glam-3

from dams with good records and carrying 75% of the same blood lines as Detroit Creamery's





state. 10 of these heifers are bred for fall freshening to a son of College Butter Boy, a bull

of excellent type and winner of 7 firsts and 5 champions In Mich.. 1924. Sale starts at 1:00.





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This classified advertising department is establish

Small advertisements bring best results under classified endings. Try it {or want ads and for adver-

Poultry advertising will be run in this department

at classified rates. or in display columns at commercial rates.



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

Count as a. word each abbreviation, initial or number. he

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$2.40 26........$2.08 $6.24

2.64 27.... 2.16 6.48

2.88 2 2.24 6.72

3.12 29. . . I."

3.36 30. . . 7.20

3.60 31.. .. . .4 7.44

3.84 32........ 2.56 7.68

4.08 83... 2.64 7.92

4.32 3 2.72 8.16

4.56 35........ 2.80 8.40

4.80 3 2.88 8.64

5.04 2.90 8.88

5.28 38........ 3.04 9.12

5.52 ........ .12 9.36

5.70 40... ..... 3.20 9.60

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REAL ESTATE





 





CALIFORNIA STATE LAND BOARD has a. number

of desirable irrigated farms of twenty and forty acres

in San Joaquin Valley for sale to bona fide farmers

on 36% years’ time. Complete irrigation system. Price

per acre varies according to location. Five per cent

of purchase price payable when deal is made: re-

mainder in semi-annual installments extending over

period of 3615 years. with 5 per cent interest annually.

Your opportunity to acquire a. farm in winth-lcss Cal-

ifornia. All deciduous fruits profitably grown: alfalfa

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

try. ,-. Good Schools and unsurpassed roads. Fruit

associations market your crops. relieving you of mar-

keting problems. You can farm all year in California.

Splendid opportunities here for the man of moderate

means. State Board's pamphlet. also Santa, Fe Illus-

trated folder describing San Joaquin Valley. mailed

free on request. C. L. Seanaves, General Colonize.-

tion Agent. Santa Fe Rn. 912 Railway Exchange.

Chicago. Ill.





 





FOR SALE—120 acres. clay loam, all improved. good

buildings. one mile from school and church. $6.500.

easy terms. 80 acres. all improved. New buildings.

clay loam. $5.000, easy terms. 80 acres. 40 acres im—

proved. good house and fair barn, one and one-fourth

miles from School, $3.200. easy terms. First State

Savings Bank, Gladwin. Michigan.





FLORIDA—Let me tell you how to get a farm in

Suwannee River Loop—general taming, poultry. dairy-

ing. papershell pecans. Satsuma oranges. J. 13. Clark.

Land Commissioner. Box 4, Live Oak. Florida.





 





FOR REM—GOOPACBE ramp—:1 miles north of

Detroit. Live stock or general farming. Reasonable

Owners H Scherer and Compunv. 440 E. Jeflerson





 





, Ave. Detroit.





Lil-ACRE FARM ONLY $1.100-Stock Im-ludcd.

Money-maker overlooking beautiful river, line. llshing,

close depot. stores. advantages; productive fields.

spring—watered. pasture. woodland. fruit; nearly new

house. new barn, poultry, smoke houses. To settle

affairs. only $1,100, part cash. Details pg. 175 new

big Spring Catalog. Free, Strout Farm Agency,

205130 Kresge Bldg” Detroit.





WRITE FOR LIST of Minimum. stating m.» and

kind wanted. Ohio Farm Sales 00.. Box 244. Belle-

l'ontaine. Ohio.





 





FOR SALE—Three Ogemaw County Farms, 1230 acres.

80 cleared. 40 timber. improvements. Price $3,000.

80 acres. 40 cleared. 40 timber, house. Price $1.500.

100 acres pasture and brush. Price $1,000. Home

seekers‘ opportunity, Ontonagon CO., Upper Peninsula.

12,000 acres hardwood cut over, clay loam. first crop

will prove this to be the best land in Michigan.

Price $10.00 per acre. Own your farm and he inde—

pendent. , Write today. West Branch Land (‘o.. West

Branch. Michigan.





 





iMi’ROVED FARMS, Plantations and Ranches taken

under foreclosure. We own and Operate approximately

50,000 acres in tracts of 50 to 2.400 acres distributed

over 14 different states. will sell regardless of cost,

and very easy terms. Send for list. Boyer Land

(30.. 304—5 International Life Bldg, St. Louis. Mo.





 





FARM: FOR SALE—224 Acres in Carrol County.

Ohio. Two sets fine buildings. Fine location and

markets. Brick house with heater. Buildings worth

pI-icn. A bargain at’$15.000. Write John S. Mc-

(‘lcslon Mm-hauicstown. Ohio.





 





A 120-ACRE FARM located in Allrgan County. land

and buildings in fair condition. Any reasonable offer

will not be. refused. Reason for selling. house burned

down. No money to re-build. For further informa-

tion write Joseph Alficn, Moline, Mich.





 





SO-ACRE FARM FOR SALE by owncl', lvvcl clay

loam, tile drained. Modern buildings. on imprmmi

road 8 miles from Lansing. Mich. JOSl'lill J. Martin,

ii. 4. Yale. Mich.





 





WANT TO BUY A FARM? Semi for Michigan Re-

sort and Farm Service Guide. it's free. Many cxcrl-

lcnt resort and farm bargains listed in each number.

U. G. Reynolds, Gladwin, Mich.





FOR. SALE CHEAP—a small Fruit Farm, wcll locat—

ed and fertile, 1,400 trees. nearly all bearing. also a

lot. of Raspberry, Gooseberry and Currant bushes. H.

J. Heard. Croswell. Mich.





WILL SELL 0R TRADE for i’afin. my live story

modern equipped Elevator. and fine modern residence.

Address J. E. Skeoch. Coral. Mich.





Bil-ACRE FARM—Stock. crop. implements. Robin-

son Township. Ottawa CO., Edward Kuhlman, R. 3.

Box 57. Grand Haven. Mich. _





 





Write for our free list of good farms. DeCoudres,





Bloomingdale. Mich.





CABBAGE, ONION. TOMATO PLANTS shipped any-

where United States. $1.25 thousand. Descriptive list

sent free telling how to grow early vegetables. Agents

Wanted. Carlisle Produce CO., Inc.. Valdosta. Ga.





RIIUBARB-MAMMOTH VICTORIA—Lyn whole

roots. 20. 31: Giant Crimson 3—yr. divisions. 8. 81:

Asparagus Roots. 50. $1. Delivered prepaid any-

where. Weaver Gardens. Wichita. Kane.





 





 





 





FREE——NEW RED RASPBERRY—Tip Grower. Very

Hardy. Sand for Literature. Strawberries $3.00 per

1.000. All Small Fruit Plants. Dcpt. H, Helicon/s

Nurscry, Three Oaks. Mich.





FOR BIG TYPE Toulouse Geese try M. B. Noble.

Saline, Mich. ~





 





 





BABY CHICKS





:‘ILLINOIS ACCREDITED" pure—bred chicks. State-

mspocted breeding stock. Barred Roeks. Single Comb

Reds. 815-100. White Wyandottcs. Bufl’ Orpingwns.

White Rocks. 310-100. Postpaid, 100% live delivery.

Hatch every Monday, order from ad. Member Inter-

national and Illinois Chick AsSociation. Earlville

Hatchery. 30 Ottawa St, Earlvillc, Illinois.





 





BABY CHICKS from America's pioneer hatchery

have pleased over 25,000 customers. 22nd season. We

hatch twenty popular varieties. Guaranteed safe de-

livery by prepaid parcel post. Write for 40—page cata-

log and free premium offer. Miller Hatcheries. Box

759, Lancaster, Mo.





 





BABY CIIICKS~—Silver L. and mum Wyandottes.

Barred Rocks. R. I. Reds, Anconas, White and Brown

inghorns from culled and strong laying strains. Sold

from day-old to eight weeks old. Fifteenth year.

Write Shepard Poultry Farm. Litchfield. Mich.





 





 





BABY CHICKS—4350 to 300 egg strain. White Eng-

lish Leghorns. my own fleck. Years of careful breed—

Ing has made them money-makers for my customers.

Order early as my supply is limited. Durand Hatch-

ery, Fcnton Micli.. Box 404





 





STURDY CHICKS—Produced from selected pure brcds

to—lay and exhibition personally inspected flocks. Rea- .

sonable prices. Catalog free. White Leghorns, Barred

Rocks. Reds. White Wyandottes. Sunnybrook Poultry

Farm. Hillsdale, Mich.





 





OAKLAND HILLS QUALITY CHICKS—Strong. vig-

orous, true to brccd. profitable. English Leghorns.

Reds. Rooks, While Wyandottes. etc. Safe delivery

guaranteed. (.‘ircular free. Oakland Hills Poultry

Farm, Farmington. Mich.





 





 





INCREASE YOUR PROFITS with chicks from these

flacks. $108.78 was market value of eggs laid in De—

rcmber by one of our flocks of 125 pullcts. Quality

(Imclks at low prices. Boocher's Hatchery. Burr Oak.

iIl('l.





 





MILLIONS Strawberry Plants $2.95 per 1,000. Rasp-

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

trated catalogue Free. Meyers Plant Nursery, Mer—

rill. Mich.





BABY (‘I~IlCI(S~I’cdigree Sired Eng. W. Leg. Chlx,

delivered 100% alive at your door at our low prices

of $12.50 per 100; $00 per 500; $110 pcr 1000. Cir-

cular free. Modcl Poultry Farm. R. 4. chland. Mich.





 





ALFALFA SEED—00 bushels. guaranteed hardy grown

seed. $18.00 per bushel, all clean seed and about.

999570 pure. Henry Foley, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

Ii. 5. Samples on request.





BABY CHICKS—S. C. chhorns (Hollywood

Strain). Barred Rocks (Parks Strain). Semi for cat-

Mllmm-M Snowflake Poultry Farm. Route 5, Middle‘

\i e. ich.





 





CERTIFIED Wolverine Oats. Certified Robust Beans.

Postal card brings particulars. A. B. Cook. Owosso.

Mich.





 





SWEET CLOVER. Alsikc. Alfalfa. ctr. Inoeulatin

Bacteria, for bushel any lcgumc, 00c postpaid. E. E.

Basil. Letty. Ohio.





 





YELLOW DENT and white seed corn. 300 bu. lost-

(rd .98. $3.50 pct 50 lb.» W. J. Ready. Carleton.

Mich.





 





ASPARAGUS~GlanL Washington. Rust Proof and

Mary Washington. Best. varieties. (‘ircular price list

I'l'cc. .i. C. Dunham. Lawton. Mich.





 





 





 





 





'ASI'ARAGI'SirWln' not plant the largest, twink-rust





most profitable. "'i‘lu- Washington"? 100 root»; $1.25;

1000 $8.00. Prepaid. Click Swd Farm. Lancaster. Pa.





 





('I'IR’I‘H’II'II) Imprm’wl Ilulmsi lit-ans. “Wisconsin Pedi-

gree Barley. Fritz Mantcy, Fun-grove. Mich.





 





l

GRADED Tcllow Dent Sccd Corn, 98% Germination,





$4 for 50 lbs. In. R. Vim-cur, St. Johns. Mich.





 





REGISTI'IRED “'OLVERINE 0ATS~Michigan’s Best.

4‘. I). Finkheincr. Hinton. Mich.





 





1923 i‘IIOit‘E SEED CORN—250 bu. High tcst. C.

IV. Etlingl'r. Ii. 1, Donrbom, Mich.





 





WOLVI'IRINE OATS—Robust Bonus. 1“. Dqutt 8.:

Son, Wheeler. Mia.





 





' PET STOCK





THE BEST COLLIE PUI’S on earth. Trained stock

on trial. Book on the Training and Care of Collies.

fifth edition. One dollar dclixcrcd. Collie Krnnels.

Dundcc. Michigan.





 





 





THOROUGHBRED COLLIE POPS—Some natural

Healers. also grown Stork. Sable and “'him (‘ollio at

Stud. G. .l. Dunncwind. ll. 1. (‘omstm-k Park, .‘IIl'll.





 





“'III’I‘I-I (‘OLLIE AT STUD ~1‘aplain “’liitc A. K. C.

42170]. foo $12.00. “'riru for particulars. Homestead

Iicnncls, Serunac. Mich.





 





GERMAN SHEPHERD (l'nllccl pups. Ideal farm

dog. Farmers' priccs. On approval. express prepaid.

F. Chapman 8:. Son. Vandalia. Mich.





 





POULTRY





 





D

POULTRY AND FRESH EGGS WANTED—Will pay

highest prices for broilers. triers. 11,9, :2. 21-; lbs. each,

fat hens. Strictly fresh while henncry eggs. Write

fol quotation. East (‘oast Poultry (‘0.. 700 Alfred

SL. Detroit, Mich.





 





MAIU‘Y FARM AN!) IIOFFMAN'S lll'mupmlml

strain .lcl'scy Black Giants. Unrelated trim $10: $3.00

«nu-h in larger quantitics. Eggs $2.00 ]wl' m'lccn.





Also tlioi'oIIglIlIrt-(l Bronze tul'kvy eggs in scuwn. .l.

G. Illcbcl't. Middleton, Mich.





 





FOR SALE—Pure brcd Bull' Orllinglon and .lm‘scy

Black Giants, covkci‘cls, $4.00 each. Pullcls of either

breed, $2.00 eat-h. Bourbon Rod ’I‘urkry virus. in sca—

son. Ordcr now. 8. L. Vim-cm. Lapwr. Mich.





 





JERSEY BLACK GlAN’I‘S eggs and (Elili'lh' from my

Super X (Mauls. iiuu lnrgc. hcalthy birds. circular

free. A. W. lloughlon, (“oldwatelz Mich.





 





COCKERELS—Ilnltcrmau's Strain of Harm! Ply-

mouth ]iocks, strong. healthy birds. $3.00. Mrs. Glen

Arnold, Saranac. Mich.





68 VARIETIES Fine pure-bred chickens, ducks. geese.

turkeys. f‘owls, eggs, baby chicks. Catalog free.

Ziemers Hatchery. Austin. Minn.





GOLDEN WYANDOTTES and Silver Hamburgs. vig-

orous cockercls, $2 to $3 each. Earl Warner. Otscgo,

Michigan.





 





BABY (‘IIIl‘lx’SmRarron Strain White Leghorns and

Barred Rocks. Satisfaction and 100’}, live arrival

guarantcml. Semi for description and prim-s. Baker’s

Hatchery, Jamestown. Mich.





 





BABY CHICKS—Tapered, Barron White chlmrm and

Shepherd Anconas. High grade Stork. (‘hicks in-

sured for one week. Catalog l‘rcc. M. D. W} ngardcn.

Zocland, Mich.





 





BABY CHICKS from flecks blood-tested for Bacillary

While Diarrhea. All flecks tested—second test on





 





Rocks and Reds. All popular varieties. Ask for

Catalogue. Pierce Hatchery, Jerome. Michigan.





 





l\VHITI'} \VYANDO’I‘TE Hatching Eggs for Sale. Regal

Dorcas Strain. Winners at State and National Shows,

Semi for Catalogue. Gcorge B. Ilaskcll & Sou.

[\Villiamswn, Michigan.





,lIlAIIIION S. ('. \V. LI'IGIIOIIN ('IIIi‘KS—chuvy egg

producing strain, first hutch March 10HI.‘ 100% live

(lclivcry guurnnloml. “'atcrway lIatr-llciy. R. 4, Hol—

land. Mich.





 





 





BABY CHICKS of living prices. Fourteen popular

yarn-tics. lligh egg production and standard qualities

uomhim-(i. Michigan State Fair Winners. Write

for [ll'lCHm JIJ'lrlIlh-hl Ilulchcl‘y, Lllchllcld. Mich.





 





BABY (‘liil'ix’S ~pum»l)rc(l, culled and blood tested

by this M. A. (‘.. B. Rocks, White Leghorns, trap—

nustcd. Farmrange Chick Hatchery, Charlotte. Mich.





 





(‘Ilit‘KS A'I'lilllllnll Strain White Lughorus, M. A. C.

Ban-red [fucks and Rim-k Minorr-as. Circular. Hill<

side Hatchery, R. 3. Holland. Mich.





BABY CHICKS ANI) l‘IGGS~7Supcrlor Rlnglct Barred

Rocks. Rose Comb Iihode Island Reds, White Leghorns.

Wyndiialu's ideal Hatchery. Tillln. Ohio. Circular.





 





 





QUALITY CHICKS—12r- up. From strong, healthy

flocks. Rooks. Reds. Leghorns. Anronas. Mating list

l’rct‘. Shady Lawn Hatchery. R. 2. Zucland. Mich.





 





S. C. BUFF LEGIIORN CHICKS—First hatch March

3. Circular. Willard Webster, Bath. Mich.





 





 





 





 





015 at $3 each. Burt Sisson, lmlay City, llich.





RHODE ISLAND REDS R. C.—I.a.rgc fancy cooker-

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TURKEYS





TURKEY iIJGGS~MIImmotlI Bronze, Bourbon Red.

Narragansett and \‘Vhirc Holland. You should place

your ordcr curly. “'rite \Valtor Bros., Powhatan

Point. Ohio.





MAMMOTH BRONZE TUIlIx’I-IYS~FImt prize winners

Michigan State Fair last three years. Walnut Hill

Farm. Milford, Michigan.





GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS—Goldbank Strain.

Chop-c heavy birds. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mrs.

Perry Slcbluns, SaI'unm‘, Mich.





 





 





AGENTS WANTED





BIG MONEY Selling Now Household Cleaning Set.

“'usht's and dries windows. Sweeps, Scrubs, mops.

All complete only $2.05. Ovcr half profit. Write

llarpcr Brush \Vorks, 173 3rd St... Fairficld. Iowa.





\VJ PAY $200 monthly salary, furnish car and ecl—

pensos to introduce our guaranteed poultry and stock

powders. Biglcr Company X4383, Springfield, Ill.





 





 





 





HELP WANTED





WANTED—man with small family. MIN. understand

machinery and all stOck. Good yearly terms. Chance

for advancement. Farm closc to Uniycrsity, and one

hour from Detroit. C. E. VI'ecland. 1711} David Whit-

nI‘y Bldg, Detroit, Michigan.





 





 





WANTED~Marricd man, farming, l‘(‘.'ll farmer want-

ed. Eighty—five dollars per month. liousu. fuel. etc.

Permanent position. Geo. W. Campbell. 1:. l. Dealk

born. Mich. _





SITUATIONS WANTED





WANTED—By married man. 29. position as Farm

Superintendent, thoroughly expcrii‘nccd. Fruit or

Dairy. Excellent references. Box 71. Mich. Farmer.





A Michigan Farmer Liner

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, Let I/Vorld -F light dependability





help you build farm profits





0A fact which links a familiar farm sight





with this great American aviation achievement





HE MEN who planned the record-



breaking World-Flight of the U. S.

Army aviators knew the importance of cor-

rect lubrication.



With dan‘ger lurking in every mile, with

new obstacles to be overcome daily, with un-

expected conditions developing hourly, the

first and foremost requirement was depend-

ability.



Only with correct lubrication could smooth,

powerful, safe operation be assured.



Every farmer will be interested to know

that the Army engineers who selected the

oil to meet this supreme test, selected the

very oil which today lubricates thousands of

farm tractors. They specified Gargoyle Mo-

biloil “B”, the identical oil which so many

farmers use daily to assure the most eco-

nomical operation of their tractors.



During the warm weather months when

your tractor must work

without interruption,





tors, while Mobiloil “BB”, which is an oil

of exactly the same high quality and char-

acter, but a little lighter in body, means prof-

itable operation to the Fordson, the Cletrac,

the Wallis and others.

a: a: :2:



Airplane engines and tractor engines work

constantly under ‘full capacity. They per-

form heavy-duty, heat-developing service,

and the use of unsuitable oil is sure to result

in premature breakdowns and wasteful fuel

and oil consumption.



To use the grade of Mobiloil recommended

for your tractor, your car or your truck, is to

secure the same dependability of engine per-

formance that was demanded in the history-

making feats of the United States Army

Fliers. '



Near your farm there is a dealer who will be

glad to tell you exactly which grades of Mo-



biloil are best suited to

your work‘. On his walls,





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t0 the Avery, the H0“: " fies the correct grade of “$2?“ 0m“) xx‘g'xg





the Oil Pull and many Mobiloil for every make Boston Oklahoma City





other makes of trac- and model of motor. Buffalo - Peoria _

“ Chicago Philadelphia





Dallas Pittsburgh



Des Moines Portland, Me.

Detroit Rochester

Indianapolis Springfield, Mass.

Kansas City, Mo. St. Louis





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