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FREE T0 LANDOWNERS (1) Ropp’s Calculator (worth 50c) answers 75,000 questions around the farm. (2) Copy of H"" ____k_..__‘. I) ‘ \_ _- Ai Hereis absolute proof that this fence will outlast any other THIS new Square Deal fence has a zmcocoatlng two to three times heaV1er than ordinary galvanized Wire—therefore it lasts two to three times longer. This is proven by nationally recognized authorities such as: Indiana State University, R. W. Hunt Company, Chicago, and C. F. Burgess Laboratories, Madison, Wis. (Copy of ofiicz'al reports mailed free upon request.) These experts made many tests from of its zinc coating. The columns below hundreds of wire samples purchased (actual photograph) show how much on the open market, made by the prin- more zinc patented “Galvannealed” cipal U. S. manufacturers. Each class Wire carries than any other kind of of fence Wire was carefully stripped farm fence. ' ' l “Galvannealed. This column shows the actual average amount of zinc removed from one square foot of surface of “Galvannealed” wire. This column provesthat patented Square Deal wire carries almost twice asmuch zinc as the next best farm fence you can buy anywhere. (See No. 2.) 2 This column shows the actual aVerage amount of zinc removed . from one square foot of the best farmifence made, except “Gal- vannealed." Note that there is only about one-half as much zinc on best galvanized wire as there ison “Galvannealed.” . ' 3 Ordinary Galvanized Wire. This shows the actual average amount of , zinc removed from one square foot of surface of several hundred samples of ordinary galvanized wire. Note that there is onlyabout VOne—third as much zinc on ordinary wire as compared to “Galvanneal‘ed.” The life of fence wire depends upon the amount of zinc protection on the outs1de of the Wire. Because patented ‘.‘Galvannealed” has a much heavier zinc protection it lasts many years longer than vamzed wire. This extra long wear costs you no more—— EXACT SIZE 7 . Square Deal is sold at no extra price. . . This is a photo of the ’ - . . .. . actualamountofzinc removed from 9’“ . . me Trip/6 kaf’. -,' _ . ,_ , . squarefootsurfaceof , an“ 1:, 5 EDIE a, .. ‘ ' 3 classes of wire. ”0 4 ._ _ '_ (No EXTRA Puma). , Qiicial Proof of Tests, which show why patented Square Deal outlasts all others. (3) Square Deal Catalog, tells all about this neat and trim fence; also about guaranteed non-slip knot; one-piece stay wires that make fewer posts necessary; well-crimped springy line wires that expand and contract with ’ the seasons. A postal brings all 3 free. Write! ~ v-rn-z.aarm~.3v-. w-WM m’WG-fl Not only is this new Square Deal protected . on the outside, but it is rust-resisting clear to the core, because we use 15 to 30 points per ton inSquare Deal, than Ordinary gal- vanized wire, yet it costs you-no more than the kind that lasts only one-half or one-third copper with the steel from which this pat-j as long. ented fence wire is made. It is awell-known This new Square Deal, guaranteed to _out— fact that copper-bearing steel resists rust at last any other farm fence, is marked With a least twice as long as steel without copper. RED STRAND (top wire). Always look There is about $5.00 more material value for it. Write for free “Proof of Tests.” KEYSTONE STEEL & WIRE COMPANY 4952 Industrial Street,nPeoria, Illinois \\ 27-; "B #4.? . . , ‘ (“g-— , \ 1A _ A ‘_. A. ,. w“ 2-4-».—‘- < nu. :17 .49., ”m”; ‘ , —. , : a...“ a, _A ~:2"=‘$:;AV~ ‘ .‘ . uvw’n‘h A. v ‘ H I" .V -A .. .. ‘ ~ . .. 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(’I 7'77“ IHanwmnm,Hi’”—1““mummlmmim”mlH“1mdHI[1mII”upInmmmlmummfifilmmgI:IumlfifiimmmmimummlHHHHIM”llfil'lmllHIHHHHIIUNHWHII”III"m“mmllllllllllllIIHNHHIH“HlIlmllIHIIHIHIHHUIHHHI“NH“IIIIHHIL’IllIllllHIHIIHIHHIIIHHI/l/l’ ’ ”“¥A_.%MM;_WW _ .__ ____-_ _——_m———-——————.________, i’ _ _W_~__‘..~_“~m . H . - m ‘ ‘ H ‘H 7 ”3}?" "1)“. '- ,. ' TH"I’m“lmixIHUI|HH|H‘!3HHl!llHIllItlIHIIMIIHHIHIHHIIIHEIHIHHIHHUH‘!!!i5”HI“IIIHHIHlllllilllllI'|IlIlllllllllllllll"IllIN”I””mllllIIll|”IllNEHHIIHIIIHIMIlfla‘lillNH1|.1"H:”will".IIHHHIHINIIIHHlIIIHIHNIIHIIIIHIHIIIIlllllllll lIll‘UlIlI :1" "UH”IIHIIIIIINIHIIIHH l’ll'lllflllllllli'llflH!‘I.JMHUUIIIIHHIIIIII t“ L.\‘« ‘ ‘- - ,. ,-_.. 7___-_._~_.__.~.—~.._-____._____._ --—-—— '—-———‘ . '—-— “fl “ ~—-—~ For Your Crop Through years of research. and actual field experiments, , the state agricultural col- leges and experiment sta- tions have determined the analysis of fertilizers which will give you the best results on each crop and soil. For Michigan, the Michi- gan Agricultural Experi- ment Station recommends the following analyses: Corn—Sands, light sandy loams: - without mixed meadow, ma~ nure or green manure, 4-12-0; with mixed meadow, clovers, al- falfa or soy bean or with manure Acid Phosphate. Heavy sandy loams, silt loams, clay loams: Acid Phosphate. Muck: 0-12-12, 0-8-24, Potash. Oats, Barley (with spring seed- ing of alfalfa or clovers)-—-Sands, light sandy loams : without mixed meadow, etc., 0-12-6, 4-8-6; with mixed meadow, etc., 0-14-4; with manure, Acid Phosphate. Heavy sandy loams, silt loams, clay loams: without mixed meadow, etc., 2-16-2 ; with mixed meadow, etc., or with manure, Acid Phos- phate. Muck: 0—12~12, Potash. Alfalfa, Clover—Sands, light sandy loams : without mixed mea- dow, etc., 0-12—6; with mixed- meadow, etc., 0-12-6, 0-14-4; with manure, 0-14—4, Acid Phos- phate. Heavy sandy loams, silt loams, clay loams : without mixed meadow, etc., or witlr mixed meadow, etc., 0-14-4, Acid Phos- 'phate; with manure, Acid Phos- phate. Muck: 0-12—12, Potash. Potatoes—Sands, light sandy loams: without mixed meadow, etc., 3-12-4, 3-8—6; with mixed meadow, etc., 2—16-2, 2-12—6, Acid Phosphate; with manure, 0-14-4, Acid Phosphate. Heavy sandy loams, silt loams, clay loams: without mixed meadow, etc., 3-12-4, 3-8-6; with mixed meadow, etc., 2-16—2, 2-12-2,Acid Phosphate; with manure, 0-14-4, Acid Phosphate. Muck: 0-8-24, Potash. Sugar Beets—Sands, light sandy loams: with mixed meadow, etc., 3-12-4, 2—12-6, 4-8-6; with ma- nure,O-12-6,3-12—4. Heavy sandy loams, silt loams, clay loams: without mixed meadow, etc., 3-12-4,2-16-2,2-12-6;withmixed meadow, etc., 0-12-6, 2-12-6, 2-16-2; with manure, 2—16-2, 0-14-4, Acid Phosphate. Muck: 0-8-24, Potash. , AS Authorized Swift Agent for the sale of Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers, we are co- operating with the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station in recommending and selling these analyses. l Come in and we will help you select the analysis and decide on the amount per acre to make you the most profit. Authorized Swift Agent ‘1 _ select The, RightAnalysis Back of the fertilizer yOu buy Profits from your crops depend largely on the fertilizer. It is of utmost importance, therefore, to consider carefully who makes the fertilizer you Use. The manufacture of Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers is based upon years of research, upon Experiment Station results, and upon the experience of thousands of farmers. Only the‘ most productive sources of plantfood are used. A large staff of chemists and agri- culturists is maintained to safeguard and improve their quality. Each Swift factory is equipped with the most modern manufacturing and laboratory facilities and operated by experts of long experience. This assures the farmer a fer- tilizer in the best mechanical condition, thoroughly mixed and properly cured—~a fertilizer that will furnish the right kind and amount of plantfood to each plant at the proper time. \ Buy a fertilizer of known value Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizers are manufac- tured to a definite standard of quality. This standard is zealously maintained and is in keeping with the fifty-year reputation of I Swift’ 5 Red Steer Fertilizers “It pays to use them” Swift 8; Company for making every product the best of its kind. There are differences in fertilizer. Guar- anteed analysis means only the amount of p1antfood—-—it does not guarantee the kind or quality. Insist on the brand with the Red Steer on the bag and you can be sure you are getting a fertilizer containing only the high- est quality of plantfood. ' ' Swift service to the farmer In your community there is an A. S. A. (Authorized Swift Agent). He is pledged to furnish Swift Service—a service which will mean money to you. In co-operation with Swift 85 Company, your County Agent, and the State Agricultural College it is his job to keep posted on the best farming methods and to pass this information along to you. He will be glad to discuss your farming problems. Let him explain to you more fully the profit you can make through a liberal use of Swift’s Red Steer Fertilizer on all of your crops. Should you fail to locate him readily, write us. - Swift 85 Company Fertilizer Works Dept. 43, Hammond, Ind. RED STEER BRAND , . " Look for :‘n18 i, “g”; ‘ sign of the L Frmmzsns A- 5- A~ ”P475 70 USE THEM \ ‘— ,,~7 M‘ _ w . ,w. . n.“ - aw». ‘ “" want A W :-.~ .m' .,“ ; ~—.;.:'.. on“ 7— J m ,«-.. m . '~"" " MICHIGAN A Practical Journal for the Rural Family SECTION THE CAPPER FARM PRESS UR ED [843.0 *' QUALITYV I ’ RELIABILITY SERVICE NUMBER ELEVEN Th: 80 14 me Farm Furm’rém’ Seed p Com For 5, 000 Acres 1337 Paul Clement A: Told to H. ‘c. Rat/tar BOUGHT this farm in 1912. Pre- vious to that time, however, it had been in the family fer sixty-five years. Charles Rankin, Mrs. Clement’s grandfather, bought and cleared the eighty. The purchase price was $250. The Rankins were dairy folks, pioneers from York state. They ran their cows out on the prairie in the summer and N eighty-acre farmer had a vision which was cramped by ordinary eighty-acre farm practices. To make room for ma- terializing that . vision he enn laxged, not the farm, but the practices. Paul Clement, down on his Monroe county farm, half way between Dundee and Britton, is one of the most talked of farm- ers in Michigan. His story is only in its earliest chapters, but there has been some rapid ac- tion these past three years. This is what .he told me.——H. C. R. mowed prairie hay to feed them over winter. Their principal income was from American cheese made on the farm. The swamp oak, elm and white ash timber from which several of the older build- ings on the farm were constructed. Some of the wood growing on the farm Problems of Early place was then covered with was formerly burned into charcoal. The most important step in bringing the farm up-to—date was to get it drain~ ed. The place was good clay and clay loam soil all the way through, but it was wet—so wet that getting the spring planting done safely and on time, was always pretty much of a gamble. Today the eighty is tiled every five rods, partially cross tiled, and drained into an outlet ditch fifty feet wide by sixteen feet deep. That outlet and the tile have been the sal- vation of the farm, every foot of which is now productive soil. How did I get started in the seed corn work? Well, up until 1924, I had never sold a bushel of corn for either grain or seed. But back in 1920 an extension worker from the Michigan Agricultural College interested me in corn improvement work. I had some corn that I bought in northern Ohio for replanting in 1914, and in the spring of 1921 a worker from the Ag- ricultural College helped me put out my first ear-to—row breeding plot. In this work, one—half of each ear of about one hundred choice seed ears was planted in, a yield test. The other half was saved so that the best yield- ing of the ears might be used to start a seed plot. Four of the highest ears yielded at the rate of more than one hundred bushels per acre. The lowest one yielded fifty-four bushels less. By discarding ears of inferior yielding ability, I have uniformly raised the productivity of my corn. In 1924, the difference between the high and low ear in my ear—to—row test was only fif- teen bushels per acre. My replanting experiences of 1914, and some other years, had long con- vinced me of the importance of germ- ination in seed corn, so my first plans in going into the seed corn business were to provide for insuring the vigor of the seed. During the summer of 1923, I built a seed corn drying house. The build- ing is 24x40xl4 feet to posts, or twen- ty—eight feet to the peak. A vent in the roof, five screen doors, and twenty four screened windows provide the cut culation of air necessary when the corn is being dried. The screen, the cement floor, and eight-inch high ce- ment wall have made, the building mouse-proof. There has never been a; mouse or rat in it. The house will hold 3,500 to 4,000 baskets of corn racked on lath frames eight feet long by fourteen feet high. built on 2x4 uprights. It is heated. with a hot air pipeless furnace. This year I have driven off three tons of! moisture in drying my corn from forty to fourteen per cent moisture content. When I was ready to sell corn, I started with the idea of guaranteeing ninety-nine per cent strong germina- lion. That meant ear testing. I can 110w test 8,000 ears at a time in a little room especially heated with a brooder stove. The stove is controlled by a (Continued on page 355). The Drying House of Mr. Clement is Becoming Too Small For the Now Being Required of It. Service Chick Raising Some Prdclzca/ Hzm‘r 07/ Gettmg Good Rem/2‘5 HE problems of eaily chick Iais- ing differ from those common to later hatched stock and the poul- tryman who tries to adapt the same practices often meets with discourag- ing reverses. With the advent of the mammoth in- cubator and companion equipment, the coal burning brooder stove, the chick season has been spread throughout the greater part of the year and new fields of specialization have opened up. The early efforts in broiler produc- tion did not meet with the success most enthusiastic poultrymen antici- pated, due to the all too frequent oc- currences of leg weakness or rickets, softening of the beak, droopy wings, ruffled feathers, eye trOub'le, loss of appetite, diarrhea and intestinal dis- turbances. Poultrymen need no longer have any apprehensions When considering either the production of early broilers or the new and promising field of ten-week- old pullet specialization. Research in- vestigations have made it possible to eliminate the above mentioned prob-‘ lems which are largely of nutritional origin. Chicks have been successfully raised in confinement, until fully matured and in a. laying condition. This, of course, is not a praé‘tical recommendation, but is of interest to every poultryman con- templating raising early. chicks and shows that “growth proves the mate- rials and work of the poultry grower.” If the bird grows normally, all factors affecting growth must be approximate- By E. C. 1y right. If, on the other hand, growth is not normal, either one factor must be radically WIong or seve1a.1. lact01s slightly wrong, and the total of de- any season 01’ the year, Foreman ficiencies so great as to have a marked effect on the general result. Chicks can be successfully raised at but the natural Daily Feeding 0/1qu for ¥flfl C/zz’cér Age of Chicks Scratch ' Mash Drink Miscellaneous 0-60 None None Water Chick Grit. Hours and Floor covered with white, ' ‘ Milk coarse sand. I‘hird None Mix: Same Same. Day 2 handsful rolled oats 1 handful bian 1 raw fresh egg 5 times daily ‘ 4-7 8 oz. Above mixture twice Same G1 een Feed——sprouted oats, Days 3 times daily boiled potatoes. a day Bran in open hoppers. Second 1 lb. Above mixture twice Same Bran disco i Week 3 times daily until tenth day; day. G 1 onet Iimigeodn £523in a day 3 lbs. chick mash mix- Ihioughout entire growing tu_re daily Iemaindel pe1iod 1 inch 01 litter of week. lree 110m dust. Get chicks on ground if possible. Third 2 lbs. 7 lbs. mash per day. Same 'Feed 10 l1a1d- boiled eggs Week 3 times daily. Encou1age outdoor a day , exercise in sunshine. - Fourth 3 lbs. 10 lbs. per day. Same Same. Week - 3 times Practice good sanitation. a day . Fifth 4 lbs. 11 lbs. er . Week 3 times 9 day Same II’leerrélace with larger hop- ‘ a day ' Sixth 5 lbs. 12 lbs. er da . ' Week 3 gimes P. :7 Same Eggxide roosts 1 it. off a ay g1owing season offers the least resist- ance with lowest costs. Ideal growth in a chick is an ex- ceedingly rapid process, which is re- vealed in a comparison with an infant baby. A well hatched chick will weigh approximately one and a quarter ounc- es at time of hatching, and in twelve weeks will attain the weight of two pounds, or twenty—five times its orig- inal weight. A ten-bound baby at the same rate of growth would Weigh 250 pounds at twelve weeks, which would be a Ieal bouncer The compa1atively shOIt and very intensive life of the chicken is like a high— —gea1ed engine where the b1 eaking- down D1 ocesses quickly develop When neglected. . In chick raising, we must first rec- ognize the fact that an individual var- iation among chicks insofar as inher- ited capacity for growth is concerned. W'e must further recognize that by im- proper management, it is possible to make a cull out of almost any chick. Looking 011 a brighter side, we know that a high chick mortality is unnec- essary and that by furnishing an ade— quate ration, efficient growth will result. The scientists tell that idea] growth in chicks is the Iesult of several fac~ tors, including adequate amounts of proteins, ca1bohyd1ates, fats, mineral salts, vitamines, water and fresh air. The practical poultryman will say “Amen” and add “strong, well hatched, healthy chicks, proper brooder temper- ature and conditions, sunshine, outdoor (Continued on page 374). . . emerging pull-I ~Pllblished Weekly Established 1843 Copyright 1925 The Lawrence Publishing Co. Editors and Motor! 1032 Lafayette Boulevard Detroit. Michigan . Telephone Cherry 8384 NEW YORK. OFFICE 120 W. 42nd St. . CHICAGO OFFIC 608 So. Dearbom St. LEE" ELAN DOFFICE 1011- 1013 Oregon Ave., N. E. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE 261- 263 South Third St. ARTHUR. CAPPER ............. . .......... President MARCO MORROW . . . . . . . ...... Vice-Preside!“ PAUL LAWRENCE ...... . . . . . .Wice-President F. H. NANCE ............ . ....... . ........ Secretary R. WATERBURY” ................' BURT “ E IHIUTH .............. . ........ 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VOLUME CLXIV NUMBER ELEVEN DETROIT, MARCH 14, 1925 CURRENT COMMENT N terse language Coolidge’s which is both char- I I acteristic of the man "angura and consistent with Address the purposes set forth in a wonderfully sim- ple but most challenging inaugural address, Calvin Coolidge, the thirtieth president of the United States of America, declared the immediate needs of the world and the nation to be a “better international understanding, greater economy and lower taxes.” The promotion of friendliness and good will between nations through mu- tual understanding and mutual for- bearance is the route chosen by our people to permanent peace. “Remov— ing the burden of expense and jeal- ousy, which must always accrue from keen rivalry, is one of the most effec- tive methods of diminishing that un- reasonable hysteria and misunder— standing which are the most potent means of fomenting war.” The Pres- ident held that this new departure in the world’s international thinking is an ideal which will not be easy to maintain. “America has taken the lead in this new direction, and that lead America must continue to hold.” A fundamental premise in the Pres- ident’s argument is that “Peace will come when there is realization that only under a, reign of law based on righteousness and supported by the religious conviction of the brotherhood of man, can there be any hope of a complete and satisfying life.” On the matter of governmental effi- ciency the President asserted that “economy is idealism in its most prac— tical form.” Continuing, he said, “I favor the policy of economy, not be- cause I wish to save money, but be- cause I wish to save people.” The de- basing effect of an extravagant, waste- ful government was cited in this sen- tence, “The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not, beyond a reasonable doubt, contribute to the public wel- fare. is only a species of legalized lar- ceny.” And further, “The result of economic dissipation to a nation is always moral decay.” Then lifting the whole thought to a. high level, our chief executive declared that, “We need not concern ourselves with the rights of property, if we will faithfully observe the rights of per- sons.” And in closing he witnessed, “The legions which America sends forth are armed not with a sword, but with The simple. but lefty the President of the United States are to be realized not through government decree, but by their acceptance as a part of the real life of the American people. Without this acceptance and cooperation the government can do nothing. ; E have recently Value had some ’very good discussions on Offidver advertising, especially tlsmg those thoughts pre- sented by Carroll F. Sweet in his recent article. Many be- lieve these thoughts far fetched and beyond the possibility of practical use in farming. However, we believe that the results the California fruit growers have derived from their campaigns show that advertising pays in the mer- chandizing of farm products. And, “on the other side of the country, the cranberry growers have done much with advertising their product. Recently we have had evidence clos- er home that advertising pays. The Grand Traverse Packing Company car. ried on a small advertising campaign in Atlanta, Georgia, on Michigan can- ned cherries, and increased the sales by that advertising about nine hun- dred per cent. The Wisconsin cherry growers and canners have also carried on a campaign in St. Louis, with high- ly pleasing results. Many Michigan farmers who have sold live stock for breeding purposes know the value of advertising through their experience with ads in the Mich- igan Farmer and other papers. With these evidences of success in both collective and individual adver- tising, we feel sure that any group of farmers with interests in common will profit if they will sanely and conserva- tively advertise their products. How- ever, advertising can only be success- ful when the goods advertised are up to the standard anticipated by the ad - reader. When every word in judicious advertising is backed up by perform- ance, success can almost be assured. N a recent issue of this journal it was suggested that the Seed farmers observe a Week “Good Seed Week.” Partly as a result of this editorial, the Farm Crops Depart- ment of the Agricultural College is putting on such a week. Those hav- ing radio receiving sets should listen in from Monday to Friday even- ings of next week, at 7:15, eastern standard time, to Station WKAR which broadcasts on a wave length of 285.5 length. Methods of insuring a better supply of seed will be empha- sized in this wireless extension course. Surely the need for that emphasis is there. Reports are coming in of a very poor seed supply, particularly of corn. Some find that practically none of the kernels will grow; others get a. forty and fifty per cent germination. In fact, very little crib corn can be depended upon, if these reports are indicative of the general conditions. It is our wish here to emphasize the need of providing seed corn early. There are two reasons for doing this work immediately. One is that the supply is short. This will make it diffi- cult for the procrastinator to get good supplies at the last hour. The second reason is that one may have poor seed pawned off on him as good seed and, not having time to test, will learn the sad news when all chances of saving the crop are past. The present situation invites un- scrupulous men to buy up supplies of corn of good appearance, but unknown germinating power, and perhaps una- dapted to conditions where offered for sale, and sell it to unsuspecting farm- ers as first class seed corn. "l‘he only insurance against such dealers is to Better 1., 1 , . . -. . ...‘,.. .» , ' ’ ., "“4 .W‘” «ma- 1“ .“vsvmfl pleura-v. ~ Mm. 1 _ obicc . es 918'- set forth in the inaugural address of > sewn—m , . ~ ”ma ‘ 'Nthefourth New ~Secre- ~ tary Of secretary of agricuh ture Was sworn in at Alrlcultm'e Washington. The in- coming chief is Dr. Wm. M. Jardine, who has been the efficient president, of the Kansas Ag- ricultural College, and also a member of the agricultural conference appoint- ed by President Coolidge. While no' statement has yet been is- sued as to the policy to- be” pursued by the new secretary, two ideas particu- larly stand out in Dr. Jardine’s public utterances as concern the business of farming. ,He believes in the American farmer, and that many of the matters over which many politicians seem dis- posed to throw themselves into hys- teria, can better be handled by the farmers, themselves. The courageous manner in which he stood out against numerous legislative palliatives and urged the adoption of sound economic principles, . bespeaks leadership along sane lines. Again, Dr. Jardine believes that the prosDerity of the farmer is closelygtied up with the prosperity of the business man. He contends that the highest interest of both will be favored through a better undertstanding be- tween the two groups. His program does not include the promotion of one class to the detriment of another, but rather the healthy development of all classes to the end that each may reap all rewards that are justly merited. OWN at Washing- A Million ton an opinion Dollar seemed to prevail among our congress- Joke 'men that they were not receiving a salary, in keeping with the dignity of their office, so they took matters in their own hands and boosted the price of a year’s service to ten thousand dollars. This is an increase of $2,500 to each representative, or a total increase in the cost of keeping each district rep resented at the national capital of over a. million dollars. Our President has been working hard to keep down the cost of govern- ment. In this he has met with some success. Now, it may be that our con- gressmen had in mind playing a. little joke on the chief executive; but the majority of those who have given the matter attention have concluded that the joke was on the taxpayer, the man called upon to foot the bill. About this, however, one is not so certain. Taxpayers are voters. They elect those who are to get this ten thousand a year. So, in giving the matter further consideration, one may wonder just who the joke would be on, if these voters would turn out at the next general election’wnd elect men to represent them who were ac- tually worth $10,000 to their district and country. If by this measure, congressmen should be relieved of theJnecessity of giving too much anxious thought about their personal finances and thereby gain time for the more important work of the public, the affair may be no joke at all, but a step in the direction of more efiicient government. We shall -hope that this extra government cost may truly be “bread cast upon the waters.” '1‘ has been said that Retailers’ the grocer gets T f‘ twenty-five cents for wenty- we one minute’s work in Cents passing fruit over the counter, while the grower gets twenty cents for one year’s work in growing it. Such a statement makes good fodder for those of radical proclivities. In fact, the facts as they are, are suffi- cient to arouse the passions of men it presented in an unfair way. For in- ."‘;,,.-.,. . , «.x. __,n .. . snzswwwsuu-mx .Wn‘fl’tik ~ » ~ ~ this month" a new" H WhOIesaler get thirteen per cent more than the grower of such apples. Looks bad, doesn’t it? Something ought to be done about it, it seems. Well,~even the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture just states these things as facts and offer no remedy‘ correcting the evil However, as a. matter of fact this may not be an evil. The spread in prices is, necessary in our present system of distribution. They net only prevail in farm products, but often in manufac- tured articles. The cost of getting things to the consumer are often high- er than the cost of production. Great- er efliciency may cut the spread some, but thus far no way has been devised to cut out the much talked about mid- . dleman. It is conceded by business men that greater profits can be made by more efiiclent production. Producing a bet- ter quality of goods at less cost is usu- ally the great objective in business. The basic principles of business suc- cess should apply equally well in , farming. - n , T/zmém WELL, I see the missus put in 4'1 word or two when I wasn’t wachin’, and I guess she said a plenty. I was goin’ ta be on the job alright, but I was what you call detained a bit by helpin’ a. high school girl home with her books. She had a hull arm full 0’ books what looked like they was weighin’ on her mind, so I just asked her ta. ride with me, sayin’ I was goin’ her way. Well, seein’ as she lived the other side 0’ town from me, it took me a littul while. But I was actin’ kind and that’s what I get fer it. I wasn’t puttin’ like Sofie says; I was just takin’ the girl home. ' You know, I’m glad Sofie praised me so by sayin’ I’ m a thinker Think- in’s what counts. All the great men thunk and by do- in’ so they be- came famous. No- body ever got fa. mous by diggin’ ditches, but there is lots what got famous by think— in’ how ta dig big- 7’»”//// ///////////////// ger ditches better It’s what you call conservashun 0’ human energy ta. be abul to think about a thing and find out that it ain’t necessary ta. do. Me and Teddy Roose- velt is the original ones what believe in the conservashun o’ natcherul re- sources. ‘ My strength is a. natcherul resource, so I want ta conserve it. In the old days when they didn’t have radios and phonografs ta listen ta. and ougtos ta ride, men used ta. think 0’ wise things, so we folkses what ain’t got no time ta think 0’ them kin follow them out. Well, I’m fol- lowin’ them. Fer inst, I think twice before I do anything. Like the other day I was goin’ ta. be so nice ta Widow Jones and says, “Your husbun was a awful nice man. Let’s see, how long was you married?” She says, “Twenty years.” And I says, thinkin’ about somethin’ else, “My, how he must a suffered.” She kinda looked right through me and walked away. So, I just wanta tell you never ta. talk about dead husbuns ta. widows. Just imagine how it’d hurt Sofie fer you ta talk about me after I’m dead. I think she’d kinda wanta let bygones be bygones. I kinda think if Sofie would think twice about me, she’d think differunt about me. The whole trouble is, she thinks fifty times about me and she says what she thinks each time I sometimes wonder what wives would do if they didn’t have husbuns to wor- ry about. I don’t think life would be half so interestin’ to them. HY. SYCKLE. h ‘ \. ~. q} en.’ ..... .;..;. w... “,wrtrm .—. wing; 9—7: L. "J ‘ m._ - . , e . , l I 1' T is Only in rate instances that the farmer makes his w00dlot produce its share of the fa1m income in common with other crops which he raises; Only too often is the farm woodlot allowed to take care of itself. When fuel is needed, the “handiest”_ place is selected With little regard for . the. woodlot as a whole. The time is soon coming, however, when this old order of things is bound, to change. coming an 'actuality._ Michigan, which built the middle west out of her white pine, is now impo1ting billions of feet of lumber largely from the south and far west. As time goes on the farm woodlot is bound to increase in value more and more. The far-sighted farm- er is the one who can look ahead and begin now to put his woodlot in the best possible condition. Even now the woodlot is beginning to be, exploited by the timber buyer. Hzg/ter széer V aluer'Maée Farm Farrtry Practzcd/ 0' By R. F. Kroodsina . Lumber scarcity is fast,be-_r plished by proper thinning, culling out of undesirable weed trees, removal of large, overmatuie and diseased trees, keepingkthe woodlot free from fire and prohibiting its use for pasture. When properly managed an amount equal to one year’s growth on the entire wood- lot can be removed each year contin- uously. This can be taken out in the form'of posts, poles, ties, fuel or any other farm timber. The farmer’s first care in improving his woodlot should be to remove all overmature, defective and diseased. trees. Very large trees, as a. rule, are found defective when worked up into logs. Every additional year these large trees are allowed to remain, de- cay is largely offsetting the annual growth besides the large space occu- pied by these veterans could be better utilized by younger trees. It has been found by experiment that after a tree reaches a diameter of two feet the rate The Crooked Inferior Trees Should be Removed to Give the Young Growth , a Chance. In some cases the entire farm is sold and the buyer takes off the timber and then resells the farm, often getting‘for it what he paid for the entire farm. Sometimes the farmer sells his timber for a lump sum, or again it is meas- ured as cut. Often the woodlot is log— ged by the buyer and again the farmer does his owu cutting when and as he pleases. \Vhichever method is employ- ed, it is up to the owner to have his Woodlot in the best possible condition, thus realizing as much as he can from its sale. The farm woodlot should be consid- ered as any other farm crop. The same principles will apply in many respects. The woodlot has its tree weeds the same as other crops. It should have a mulch to preserve moisture the same as any other group. As the fruit grow- er thins his fruit to obtain the best specimens, so the farmer should thin his woodlot to produce the best trees. The tree crop has many advantages over the other farm crops. It can be harvested at any time of the year when other work is slack. It need not be harvested at any set season and will not spoil it left for a year or two. The farmer can pick his market and While he is waiting the trees keep add- ing to their value. Often the trees plant themselves and need_but little care during their growth. The woodlot is a poor soil crop, or a crop for that stony or hilly spot. It adds each year to the soil in the fdrm of a. rich humus more than it has taken. Trees are soil builders and soil holders: Woodlot Management. The ideal management of the farm woodlotco‘nsists in raising the largest number of trees per acre that will, grow advantageously. This» is accom-. of growth slackens appreciably. All trees with excessively large crowns should also be removed, as well as all crooked and badly forked trees be- cause these socalled “wolf” trees are taking up more than their share of for- ; est room. If the farm woodlot is large- 1 1y made up of these trees, care must be taken not to open up the forest too much at one time as this is also detrimental. A certain amount of these large trees can, be removed each year and the woodlot gradually brought into a better condition. Varieties to Favor. Certain trees commonly found in the woodlot are faster growers than oth- ers. These species are ash, basswood, tulip, elm, hickory, red oak, red maple and the like. Such trees are also more valuable from a money standpoint and should be favored over beech and ma- ple and black oak. Red oak and black oak are often found growing together. The latter is by far the least valuable, does not grow as fast and is more scrubby. Beech and maple do not com— mand as high a price on the market as other species. “here the woodlot is to be used for a sugar bush, however, maples should not be cut out. Beech can sometimes be left where it comes in as an understory and is not sup— pressing more valuable trees. The farm woodlot, like the corn field or potato patch, contains weeds. These weed trees are usually trees that do not reach a. good size, or they are trees of almost no commercial value. They consist of the following species: Dog- wood, blue beech, iron wood, sassafras, sumac, fire cherry etc. These weed trees do the most harm when the woodlot is young, as it is at this Stage (Continued on page 353). x I L‘_ l Exide Batteries store the electric power in Delco-Light plants F it were not for the battery, you would have to run your farm plant engine every time you wanted to light a single light. The power generated by the engine and dynamo is stored in the battery, ready for your instant use. An efficient battery conserves power, saves fuel, and makes light and power economical. So vital is a good storage battery that Delco-Light has equipped every one of the 200,000 fine plants it has built, with Exide Batteries. Exides are rugged, long-lived, and de- pendable. They are made by the largest manufacturers in the world of storage bat- teries for every purpose. In purchasing a new battery for your plant, remember that the best battery is the cheapest in the end. When you need another automobile battery, get a rugged, economical Exide. And don’t forget the highly efficient Exide Q Radio Batteries THE ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY CO, Philadelphia Exide Batteries of Canada, Limited, 153‘Dufl'crin Street, Toronto lixib BATTERIES ll'liilll ‘1 1. . p n . 6‘ 1 . ‘ ‘13, \\\§\§ \\ Delco- -Light has equipped \ every one of the 200, 000 \\ \,\ fine plants it has built, with b Exide ‘Batteries. EXIDE—T‘HE LONG-LIFE BATTERY I - 3“: .Léz‘im ' .SEHEF» ~ fiZw“ t": leased-1: /. «aces-g2: _-.~» Ma... xxx. :1.“'._ M. 1 ":9- .3“. M ICHIGAN farmers and farmers’ .progress of agricultural legisla- ‘ tion under the Capitol Dome at Lan- their attention on the actions of the committee on agriculture of the sen- : ate, for before this body of five men ’ much of the controversial legislation most directly affecting agriculture has been hanging in the balance. Unquestionably the most outstand- ing measures from the point of view of this popular rural interest have been the bills regarding the state ap- propriation for paying indemnities on slaughtered tubercular cattle and es- tablishing the federal potato grades in Michigan. * I 3 OR several weeks the senate agri- cultural committee has been con. sidering an appropriation bill which would allow $500,000 for each of the next two years to pay the state awards on cattle reacting to the tuberculosis test. Passage of this bill in its original form would have allowed for the speed- ing up of the testing work in Michigan and enabled the state to have put‘on ‘ the testing and eradication campaigns in most of the counties now on the ‘ waiting list. This bill, with the appropriation fix- ed at $500,000 for each of the next two years, had the solid endorsement and backing of the live stock organizations of the state and of the Michigan State Farm Bureau. However, its reception in the committee was none too cor- dial. Finally it has been reported out with the appropriation cut in half. An effort may be made to amend the bill restoring the original figure. It i * I‘ZNATOR GEORGE LELAND’S bill to make the federal potato grades compulsory for Michigan has also been much in the lime-light during the past week. As reported in the Michigan Farmer of a week ago, this bill was once reported favorably by the agricul- cultural committee of the senate, but it met unexpected opposition on the floor of the senate and so was referred back to committee. However, the Michigan Potato Grow- ers’ Exchange, the Michigan State Farm Bureau, and many other power- ful groups sponsoring this measure showed no disposition to meekly ac- cept defeat. Getting 011 the job prompt- ly and in earnest, they found that much of the opposition to the bill grew out of the idea that it might possibly apply to direct sales of potatoes from producers to consumers. An amend- ment was Speedily agreed upon to spe- cifically exempt such transactions from the provisions of the bill. “'ith this amendment, prospects are fairly bright for the passage of the bill. III III 1! VIDENCING the fact that senti- ment in Michigan for the enact- ment of a state graduated personal in— come tax is still very much alive, Rep- resentative Wilbur B. Snow, of Com- Stock, has introduced a proposal to add a new section to Article X of the Con- stitution to read as follows: “The legislature shall provide by law for a tax upon or with respect to net gains, profits and incomes from what- ever source derived, which tax may be graduated and progressive and which may provide for reasonable exemp- tions. For the purpose of such tax, property and persons, firms and cor- porations, upon which said tax may operate may be classified.” This meas- ure would strike out six sections con- tained in Article X of the constitution. It-would abolish the primary school interest fund and place the property 33501: public utilities on the general prop- .rierty tax rolls. There have been several other im- portant developments in the legislative - State C-ap-itOI“ News Our Lansing Correrpona’mt organizations interested inzthe’ ‘ sing have been quite largely focusing. program for- tax reform. The house by a vote of eighty—five to two passed Representative Evans’ bill, gIVIng the state tax commission power to review the tax exemptions requested by the. charitable hemes of fraternal soci- eties. It is said that this bill will add about $50, 000, 000 to the tax rolls of the state. A bill“ proposing strict regulations regarding the bond issues of munici- palities has been introduced by Sen- ator Howard F. Baxter, of Grand Rap- ids. The state treasurer would be giv- en power to supervise the financial and tax conditions of the various munici- palities and would keep a record of their bonded indebtedness, assessed valuation and condition of their sink- ing funds and no bonds could be issued until he had issued a statement certi- fying that the bonding conditions of the corporation were in compliance with the law. ‘ It i * UNKING the score or more requests for the establishment of sections of state trunk line highways, the senate has passed unanimously the Atwood bill authorizing the state highway de- Hfl Qa’e z; a Mule Oh, Nimble Mule, Thy hind feet on a swivel did suspend. I’ll bet at least a dollar, No eye thy heels could foller, As thou transferred thy collar, To thy rear end. Suspicious Mule I’ve seen thee jump a 10d at sight of snake, Or when thou saw a st1ange1, And leapt up in thy manger, Thy guest would squawk, the out of danger, For Goodness Sake! Thou loud voiced Mule. The Windows thou could’st rattle with thy bray. At night the sleeping neighbors, While resting from their labors, Thy blast would wake, I vow, Be Jabersl, A mile away. Old Balky Mule, My patience and my temper test, When I was in a hurry, And hitched thee to the surrey, Thou braced thy feet and banished worry, To take a rest. Oh, Sorrel Mule, Thy hide was tougher than a hickory plank. Thy mouth was lined with metal, Just like a potash kettle, Against thy bit I oft did settle, And yank and yank. And yet, Oh, Mule, Thy meanness thou can’t help, Alas, Alak! Thy father too, was spunky, His tricks would shame a monkey, Aside from being just a donkey, He was a Jack. —F. G. VVeth-r. thou did‘ st partment and the state administrative board to lay out and construct 500 miles of new runk line mileage. An- other bill increasing the centralized control of the state over the trunk line higways was the Ming bill which pass— ed the house seventy-one to fourteen. This measure provides that on Jan- uary 1, 1926, the state will take over all trunk line construction and main- tenance and entirely relieve the coun- ties from any expense or responsibility in connection with trunk lines. In case counties or townships have satisfac- tory engineers or equipment, the state might contract with local highway au-. thorities for construction or mainte- nance work. * It 1‘ BY 3. vote of ninety-three to nothing the house passed Representative Dykstra‘s resolution providing for the submission to‘the electors of the state at the fall election of 1926 of the ques- tion as to whether or not there should 'stitution. is regarded by some legislative observ- «ers as a move to’ find a plausible ex- cuse, for enacting no res-apportionment legislation at this session. Bills to'in- crease the number of Wayne county senators and representatives in the legislature are pending in committees, but it is not certain that they will ever be reported out. * t It PROVISION for townships to gener— . ate and furnish electrical energy to their inhabitants is contained in a bill introduced in the house by Representa- tive John E. Gillett, of Rapid City. Un- der the terms of this bill a petition signed .by not less than ten per cent of the resident taxpayers of the coun- ty would be necessary for placing the question of the purchase or erection for the purpose of drafting a new ' V . Passage of this resolution _ with the project. affirm . those voting on the question would :be necessary to authorize going Bonds issued in con- nection with the purchase or erection of any such power plant could not ex. ceed five per cent of the taxable prop— erty of the township. They could not be sold below par nor bear interest at more than six per cent. _¥ It It of ,RapidWCity, has introduced a bill providing for the repeal of the present law requiring the cutting of noxious weeds. Senator Arthur E. Wood, of Detroit, would protect ever< green trees from wasteful cutting, transporting or selling such trees,'and by forbidding the cutting of trees less than four inches in diameter at the» butt. SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS E'NDS. HE sixty-eighth congress passed into history on March 4, None of the pending cooperative marketing bills were passed. The Dickinson bill got through the house, but the senate committee on agriculture voted seven to six to substitute the Capper—Haugen bill for the Dickinson bill. ‘ This re- moved any chance of success for eith- er of these proposals. In the closing hours of the session, an attempt was made to put through the modified McNary-Haugen export corporation bill, as a farm relief meas~ ure, but this was turned down in the senate by a vote of sixty-seven to sev- enteen. The Dickinson bill was looked upon by some as a “monkey w1ench” thrown in to wreck the cooperative marketing plan proposed by the President’s con- ference. It provides expensive govern- ment machinery with nothing to do. Members of congress who voted for it say they would have opposed it if they thought it had any chance of becom- ing a law. COOPERATIVE LEGISLATIVE EF- FORTS WILL CONTINUE. _0 one believes that the movement for cooperative marketing legis- lation will end with this session of congress. The recommendations of the resident’s conference, incorporated in the Capper—Haugen bill, promise to be a live subject for discussion during the summer months, and will come up again in congress early in the next session, which it is 110w predicted will be called early in the fall. It is admit- ted by those who oppose this bill that there is a sentiment among- farmers for some sort of government supervis- ion of cooperatives, so that the mem- bers will have some assurance as to the standing of their organizations. Senator Capper points out that the President’s farm program proposes to establish a marketing system which would help the farmers by reducing the spread between the producer and consumer, by eliminating wastes, lost motion and gamblers’ harvests. DThe new semeta1y of agriculture, .William M. Jaidine, says: “It is not enough f01 fa1me1s to coope1ate with each othe1.1\e must have co— operation between city and country, between the business man in the tOWn and the business man on the farm. Each must realize that neither can prosper without the other.” POSTAL PAY ACT. HE postal pay' bill has been signed by the President. -It provides for, an average increase of $300 annually in the salaries of goveinment em- ployes, dating from January 1, this year, and increase in postal rates ef- fective April 15, to raise about $60,000.- 000 of the $68,000,000 required for the pay advances. As the farmers are the most extensive users of the parcels post, the two cents service charge on every package, in addition to the reg- ular charge, will be largely paid by them, adding to their expense in mail order buying and selling. FARM EXPORTS GREATER. THE total value. of the exports of the principal farm products for the first seven months of this crop move- ment season was $1,431,000,000, com- pared with $1,159,000,000 in the cor- responding months of last year. This increased export value of $272,000,000 is accounted for by increased exports of cotton, wheat and rye. During the seven months the value of the exports of grains and edible preparations of grains was $198,000,000 greater than for the corersponding pe~ riod last year. The exports of feeds during the seven months period show ed a value of nearly $14,500,000 great- er than the corresponding months of last year. “'3... TH E APPLE SITUATION. IN his mid-winter review of the apple situation in European markets, Ed- win Smith, foreign representative of the U. S. Department of. Agriculture, gives some information which is 11m portant to apple growers wherever lo‘ cated in this country. It appears that while there was a short crop in Eng- land, in the apple districts of Holland, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, and Jugo~ Slavia the crop was the heaviest and the best ever harvested. The compe- tition of these countries is not given adequate consideration by the Ameri can apple industry. it represents a large volume and a much higher class commercial output than in England. Tyrolian shippers put a package 011 the market second only to the Pacific Northwestern box apples. In Germany these apples are seen in much larger volume than are American apples. EXPORTING AGENCY NEEDED. IT is evident that if the American g1 owe1s succeed in building up a la1ge demand for their fruit in Europe they will have to develop a centlalized expo1 ting agency which will keep post- ed on European apple market condi‘ tions, be able to export only such quan- tities of fruit as the markets demand. and by. rigid inspection segthat bnly high quality apples are ,ahioped'vacmss, fruit that will attract instead of repel consumers. ' ahead . E‘PRESENTATI'VE John E. Gillett. " 3...... .. ‘ . " teem—WW" Lined ._.~— .94., - .__, ‘ Arr ‘W" .~J.;W‘_J€.’z “I «1“» «r. “3.; ,j " 2; 5".” A —-\‘_ ms I A. 4' \\ . 9...»... «5.. “an. .r ”r . .‘u'Mu-g ‘35- 3%,; . u. . w '- l I Isa SaVIng of . ' f» .1 p $5099 Interesting to you? 5 RE you using this Catalogue? 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And at Ward’s the savings made by our big buying, the; savings made . ontgome -Kansas City through our buying for cash, these savings are yours—always yours. Always Compare Quality as Well as Price In gathering our vast assortments of merchandise, our buyers search the’markets of the world for low prices. But only for low prices on goods of standard quality. We never buy goods to offer you unless they are the kind of goods that will stand inspection and use—the kind that will hold your good will. At Ward’s “we never sacrifice qual- ity to make a low price.” We offer no “price baits.” We do not sell cheap unsatisfactory goods at any price. Your satisfaction with every- thing you buy is our first considera- tion. Use Your Catalogue—— ,Save Money Every Month You have a copy of this Catalogue. Use it for everything you need to buy, Ordering each month from Ward’s means a monthly saving. $50.00 in cash will soon be saved if you use your Catalogue for every- thing you buy. ESTABLISHED 187 ’ I St. Paul Portland, Ore. Everything for the Home, The Family and the Farm Every Woman, young and old, will find this catalogue of great inter- est if she uses it. Have you studied carefully the big department of shoes for, every member of the family? Have you studied its New York Fashions? Do you realize that this book offers nearly everything you buy to use or wear and that always there is a big saving? The Man and Bay will find this book of great value. Whether you are interested in tires‘or accessories for the automobile, or in radio, in stylish, serviceable clothes or work clothes, or hardware, or tools, al- ways Ward’s Catalogue offers you a saving. The Home has many needs. It needs most of all to be made com- fortable and beautiful. Ward’s cata- logue is a real Home-maker. It offers everything new and beautiful and pleasing, the newest in curtains and rugs and furniture, everything that goes to make a house a home—that makes it more delightful and more convenient. ,— Your Orders Are Shipped Within 24 Hours Your order will be shippd within 24 hours. We appreciah your orders at Ward’s and ' give your orders immediate d- tention. But more than this—one of a! six big houses: is near you. Jl‘ consider how much less time“ takes for your letter to reach- ——how much less time for you! goods to get to you and ho- much less the cost of transport.- tion. It is quicker and cheap to order from Ward’s. yWard 69°Co , Th‘e”01€le”siffMail"O?def’HCTlise is Todaythe Mest’Progressive Oakland, Calif. Fort Worth- ‘ I’d ever come to a farm was the Union Stock Yards in a certain city down in Illinois. I had heard the . word “agriculture” mentioned at dif- ferent odd times, and I did’know that food came from the kitchen. How, or in what manner it got there, or from whence it originated, was by me. Almost every morning, each of those days, I used to collide with the en— trance sign on a restaurant and, after I’d leaned over the counter, the waiter would turn toward the commissary and make a noise that sounded like “a stacka wheats,” which is a sign used in bean galleries to tell the hash-heat- er pancakes are wanted. cakes are just pancakes. Kalsomine them with the stuff’ that made the Log Cabin famous, and they’re‘food, and there’s nothing I like better, un- less it’s more. But I’d no more think of eating them without syrup than I would of eating crackers without soup. If anybody had asked me to go out and get some maple syrup I’d have grabbed a corkscrew. The idea that you gathered it from trees never oc- curred to me. I’d always figured trees were made for shade and shingles. Since then I’ve set in on this little game of farming and have learned a lot of things, one of which I’m about to un- button. Iu the first place, different kinds of trees have their admirers, just like different breeds of cattle. You take U P to a few years ago, the nearest Tree Now, pan- ‘ Syrup tfla the clairvoyant, for instance, and she prefers the palm; the boys that till the soil couldn’t get along without the faithful old whiffle tree; then there’s the hickory, the schoolmom’s friend. Me? I’ll take my hat off to the maple, the sweetheart of the woods. Without her the buckwheat flour industry would be in the same fix as the buggy manufacturers, because maple Syrup is to buckwheat cakes what tobacco is to the corn cob. _ _ Maple syrup was invented along about the same time that Christopher discovered Columbus. I once heard a lecture on the Indians, and the speak- ,er (not Tris) came right out and said that those red boys were the original sap heads. They’d take their can—op- eners—or I guess they called them tomahawks—and make a log look like a trough. Into this trough they poured the sap that had been gathered in birch-bark pails. Now this was before Charlie Sch’wab had invented iron ore steel and it wouldn’t have done to set a wooden trough on top of a fire for fear it "might burn up. So rocks were heated and tossed into the trough, which kept the sap boiling until the sugar came. This was lumped off and each squaw took her share home. Be~ tween me and you, the way we do it up here, we aren’t but a couple of jumps ahead of thoses calpers. t 1144’?“ W éeqt Cate: Popular By Harv Hess ' ‘ V This is a crop like ice and sawlogs, that you don’t have to spend six months getting ready to harvest. All you need i‘s'a sugar bush, and the first time I heard that term I thought a sugar bush was some species of flora like the lilac or the rose and you just stepped right upvand picked thesugar off. But it isn’t. It’s a trade term us clover kickers have fer, a group of trees consisting. mestly of‘ the Variety known as maple and, if you haven’t one of these bushes on your farm you don’t get your waffle wash unless you , buy it; . , My syrup making crew usually con- sists of two men, namely, me and my- self. The first job we’ve got to get out of the way‘ is breaking paths through the grove so we-can get from one tree to another without stilts. This may sound easy, but if you’ve ever been up in Snow Man’s Land along about the Ides of March you’ll knowit isn’t a job for a broom. Messrs. Brace & Bit, the fellows that bore you to- death, follow the pathfind- ing gang, and these boys are always stirring up a lot .of rumpus in their department over the hows, wherefores, whens and whys to tap. The first argu- ment comes in regard to hOW big a tree are you going to drill? A person might think, from the name, that a sapling would just 'be the ideal size, You could hang a bucket on a sapling and not get enough all year to bathe a gnat in. It is best not to tap any less than eight inches wide, and from there up. The upper the better. The second scrap concerns the size and he’d be wrong again. hole to bore. A half-inch bit is the size I prefer, and I make the hole from one and a half to two inches deep. You have to be careful or you ‘ can bore right into the heart of a tree, I had , and then it will bleed to death. a neighbor once who had a flock of trained woodpeckers that did his bor‘ ing and-"he was always sure of not get- ting theholes too deep. Some authori‘ ties will tell you the .hole ought to be . It don’t always pay to fol; waist-high. low these instructions. One of our men did- that one year and, about a week later, allthe snow melted in the woods and the hole was up so, high he had to carry a stepladder around to gather his sap. If‘we have one of our normal winters I stand flatfooted, right on top of the crust, and bore the hole just below Iii}s left instep. Then when it melts it’s just the right height. And there’s always a real stiff de‘ hate on trying to decide which side of the tree to bore. This is like trying to decidewhich is the south side of a cow. Some sap suckers say to bore on the south side, others the west, some the north, while a great many will ad- vocate the side that has the largest (Continued on page-379). s- REGlSTERING WILLS. ()wning property, real estate, in Canada, as well as the home in which I live here in Michigan, in making my will is it necessarythat I register it in both countries, or what country must I record it in? For certain family rea- sons I would prefer recording it in Canada. \Vould that be legal so far as my Michigan property is concerned 1’ ' A \Nills are not, registered during the life of the maker. They have no ei- fcct till the maker is dead. Then they have to be probatcd in every jurisdic— tion in which property affected by them is located." Rood. ORCHARD GRASS FOR PASTURE. I would like to learn what I can about orchard grass for pasture. \Ntll it make pasture the first year? How much seed to the acre? \Vhen is the best time to sort/"RMR. IE. 13. Orchard grass is one of the best per- manent, pasture grasses known. It is adaptable to almost any kind of soil, although it, does best on a rich, ”moist, alluvial soil. It is the first grass to start in the spring and it, continues growth the latest in the tall. It will do well in a variety of climates and conditions, but will winter—kill it" the, land is too low and Wet. It is a great yielder, producing more food to the acre than any other of the true grasses, and it is doubtful if the clovers will yield more. Fairly close cropping early in the season is neces— sary to prevent its going to seed and becoming woody and unpalatable. Then, too, it allowed to seed, the growth stops materially. If there is not sufficient stock to keep it fed down, it is best to clip it with the mowing machine. The live stock man who has a thickly set field of orchard grass on good land has a gold mine. If seeded early in the spring it can be pastured with light weight animals that same fall, but no new seeding should be pastured closely the first n: . r—— season. The grass needs time to prop- erly establish itself. When seeded in August or September, the next spring it will have become so well established that it can be used more. But even then heavy stock should be kept off in wet weather. However, from then on, for twenty-five or thirty years, you have a reliable pasture if you want it. The seeding should be heavy. Two bushels per acre is none too much. If the stand is thin, it grows in bunches or tufts and it is hard to get any other grass, even June grass, to grow close He's tht/e But He’r Mtg/241' \\\\\\\\\\\\\\ l BACK THE HEAVY WEIGHT SURE ' PACKS A WALLOP! \\.‘ LO WEIQ I ‘\'\ LA 50R co 5T3 THE LITTLE FELLOW ALL THE' TIME -. HE W A... .‘ it imggsn H, W4 WC ANA LYSIS ‘ : i K. up to these tuffs Some prefer to seed with a spring grain crop as oats or barley. Of course. the orchard grass will not make as rapid growth as when sown alone, but even th'en’t-here Will be consider» able pasture for light animals the first fall. The next spring it can; be quite - heavily pastured. VALID LEASE. A. owned a farm and rented it to B.' At the end of one year, , A. decided to build a new house on_ for five years. his farm and live on it himself, and wanted B. to move off the farm. Can A. force B. to move off the farm before the expiration of the five years? building his house, and will live in it next summer. Can B. stop A. from building the house and keep him off until the five years are up ?-——. M. If the lease is valid the lessor has _ no right of possession within the term of the lease. An oral lease for more than one year is void.~Rood. PURCHASING FORECLOSED PROP. ERTY. What is the opinion of the depart- ment in the matter of purchasing any property, when the property in ques- tion is under foreclosure proceedings? Redemption period expiring in July, 1925. Property in question is a farm, and if a contract is entered into with the mortgagee, crops are planted by me and growing, and the mortgagor then redeems title to the property. Since the crops are already growing, who has title to them? Vi’ould a con~ tract be valid should the above cir- cumstances arise; that is, mortgagor redeem title to the property?—G. K. The mortgagee has no right to the possession of the premises until the equity of redemption has expired and if he goes into possession and plants Crops and the mortgagor-r-edeems the title, the mortgagor is entitledto the crops without liability to anyone in the absence of express agreement be- tween him and the claimant—Rood. ‘ of orchard grass.' A. is, Corn Well Rooted is Half Grown When you use the same care in preparing a well— pulverized seed bed that you do in selecting your seed com, the young plants get firmly rooted and your crop is half made before the tender shoots break ground. With a F ordson you can give your com a good start by put- ting under it a moisture-conserving bed of earth that will keep the crop sturdy during unfavorable weather. And the time and labor involved is only a fraction of what it would be‘with other equipment. The extra yield from a single crop of Fordson prepared corn land has often paid the entire first cost of the tractor. When cultivating and harvesting, silo filling and shredding can also be done easier and quicker with ready Fordson power; } ‘flf it is not hard to know why the Fordson is so popular wher- f ,,_ ; ever corn is grown. ,) H ' ‘ CV ‘ % Detroit, Michigan ‘ - i1. t See the Nearest Authorized Ford Dealer ~ 1 5‘ 9} . l’ i, -_ w ., ml Wfi- «— r ‘ z, I' [.“u. 1 x. '1, ‘:!\‘\‘Y‘\v ".‘ ‘ ‘ '. .-\|\'\\\‘\‘\‘\\ ‘\‘.““‘ "//'//41§l\fl 3‘?» \\\ \F‘ M \, ‘ \ \ >3- ' \ “ l \. ‘\\. . ‘. ‘I‘ '\.‘\ \ \“ ”I! ’1] ,1] I, 'i/ I ' l K.‘ \ \\\ .\ _ ‘ ..\ ._ ‘ \\ F Flight: (51." . X]: the Fertilizer Leaders ot‘ America Some Folks just naturally seem to step out ahead with their crops_ They get the extra bushels oi grainper acre. Their corn grows greener during the sum- mer and hardens early with a big yield. They get their truck crops to market a little earlier than the other fellow. These folks are the leaders in their community. They are people Who know how to make money farming. They know good fertilizer and where to buy it. Thousands of them have tied—up with the "Fertilizers Leaders of America" to get results. Through experience they know that the “Fertilizer Leaders" put into the bag the largest amount of actual available plant food in the best ‘mechanical condition, for the least amount of money. Here you buy— . A generous supply of Richly Available Phosphorous easily taken up by the growing plant. Nitrogen (or Ammonia) so supplied as to feed the plant from seed-time to harvest. Potash to make healthy growth and increase yields. Farm with the "Fertilizer Leaders of America" . They will help you build up your soil, grow you bigger crops and make you better profits. Get your fertilizer from their dealer. or write for booklet. ~- ‘ THE FERTILIZER LEADERS OF A_Ri CA 3 lillll f' 1"th VI'QIIUIIR “W,- KENTUCKY rsnuuzsnco 1/ 1H! ’\iii1t1iH'.’ n! K: ____L_O B FERTILIZER . :BRANCH’ CHEMICAL :BRANCH (‘5 1191111111] 0 11.0.111111M111111111111 ' Federal Chemical LOUISVILLE [06$ NASHVILLE TEN/V. COLUMBUS 0.] m4? Mention the Michigan Farmer When Writing to Advertisers ,4 . __7~__, _/ IMPLEMENTS Never before have farmers looked so carefully for good construction and long life in the implements they buy. BLACK HAWK PLANTERS You can find such implements at our dealers—we have built them for nearly fifty years. Tell us What you deed—- we’II send catalogs. The Ohio Cultivator Co. Bellevue, Ohio II‘ HEN MANUBE WORKS. HAVE 8. habit of cleaning out the bushel basket, until either carry or wheel on a barrow, the manure to the nearest trees. Those trees plainly Show the effects of the hen manure in increased growth and greener foliage. Some pet trees get‘asmuch as a bush- el of hen manure every year and it does my bones» good 'to seethem shoot ‘up. A mulberry sprout set four years ago .near the hen house runs its‘roots under the hen house wall. It is now twenty feet tall, and the boysclimb around on its limbs while they fill themselves with mulberries. When I get my new hencoop I shall have fancy dropping boards and such fixings, but so far the bushel basket and wheel barrow must do While cleaning the coop—H. C. Reber. REDUCES THE COST OF KEEPING HORSES. I AM seeking to reduce expenses up- on my farm. When we once get to thinking about the matter we really find many places in which to save a few cents or a dollar. Each may amount to a little,_ but when totaled up the sum is surprising and well worth while. Taking my cue from the experi- ments conducted by the Agricultural College, I have substituted alfalfa hay for timothy in feeding my horses. ‘While I have not been able to figure the savings down to the fine point that 0 be successful in farming, cer- tain fundamental practices must be followed. One of the most important of these is maintaining the supply of available plant food in the soil. A soil is often defined as that por- tion of the earth’s surface that; lends fljmcchanical support and nourishment to plants. Many of our soils have just about nourished their last crop unless the farmer returns some. of those life- sustaining elements. Poor farm practices may not exhaust a. soil of its fertility, but it will deplete it beyond a point of profitable produc- tion. Soil depletion is not a process that occurs over night or that can be rem- edied over night. They are both long drawn out reactions. Fortunately, soil building can be speeded up by the proper use of lime. fertilizers and ma- - nures. We often hear the “old timers” talk of the big crops of corn and wheat they raised back in the “sixties.” \‘i'e do not doubt them in the least, but we do believe that there were some poor farmers in those days just as there are some poor farmers today. These poor farmers passed on to us farms of low fertiltiy. We. are hopeful that those same farms will be passed on to the next generation in a highly pro- ductive state. Soil fertility should not be increased with the idea of increasing the produc- tion, but with the idea of decreasing the cost of production. “‘11an the pro- duction per acre is inc-nu: :0d the cost. per unit will go down it good systems of farming are followed. It is not natural to expect a farmer to apply fertilizers and return organic matter merely to raise the balance of plant food in the soil. He must see actual' dividends on his investment. It is possible to do both of these at the same time, for good soil fertility prac- tices increase the profits and leave the ., ‘ BOUT ,: is.“ FARM hen coops with a scoop shovel and. the experimenters did, I do feel that ‘ this change has resulted in a. probable saving of ten dollars on each of our three horses. This amounts to thirty dollars for the year. In these days of close finance this amount is not to be sneezed at, and, taken with other sav- ings gained in feeding pigs and 'cows, we consider the alfalfa crop a key product to better farming methods.— S. M. Smith. BEWARE OF CRIB CORN. HAVE learned a little lesson about seed corn that might be valuable to brother farmers. That is, it might be valuable for, at least, the present season. I tested my corn. Some of it was sorted out last fall, tied to—' gether and hung in the attic where it was well dried out before the weather became too cold. Now, the results from the testing showed that it is good practice for a farmer to get the corn dry before it freezes. The corn taken from the crib did not give me over forty per cent of kernels that grew, and some of those that germinated gave only spindling stocks and meager roots. The vitality had been hurt by the cold weather. The ears that went to the attic were decidedly different. These ears hit close to the hundred mark. The sprouts were strong, showing consid- erable seed vitality. Next fall, I am going to gather all the seed com I need and a little besides, and get it well dried out before the weather be comes cold.—-Arthu1' Kiner. Farm Fertility Facts By 0. B. Price soil in a better state of fertility. Any banker 01' business man knows it is not a good practice to get “in the red.” The farmer should have the same attitude regarding his soil fertil- ity. Are you maintaining a. balance on your “Soil Ledger?” Are you putting back enough lime, organic matter and plant food to replace that lost th1ough your crops? For every bushel of grain or ton of produce removed from the soil we lose a certain amount of plant food. A check has been written on the soil for the production of that crop. Very often the deposit has not been sufficient to meet the demands of the check. Of course, legal proceedings can not be instituted against you in the case of over drawing the account, in the soil, but your duty to yourself. your family and society should urge you to maintain a productive, but prof! itable, state of soil fertility. The crops that grow on the soil are much like ourselves in feeding. The nutrition specialists have pointed out. that our bodies need certain vitamines for proper growth and energy and when a single one is omitted from our diet proper nutrition is impaired. When any single plant food element is deficient in the soil to such a degree that it becomes the limiting element 1:1 crop production it not only prove nts the plant from receiving that element, but it also prevents other elements from entering the metabolic processes of the plant. It is absolutely :1eces~ say that the soil be supplied with a sufficient and balanced nation for may imum Lsoductlon. This means suiii~ cient organic matter and sufficient plant food in baIanCed and available form. '11 any system of permanent ag ricul- true it must be kept in mind that 13 1e soil is merely a reservoir of plant food, .. materials, and only as long as it is- kept full of available and. balanced nutrients will productivity be profits ably maintained. -. Jame.» r ””3““ . a. V- ”Via V . w v. I ‘lots is the large amount of defective when} they, crowd- more ' valuable; trees. It is also'at this stage that the future woodlot can best be handled and shap- ed to produce what is wanted most. An effort should therefore be made to clean out all of. these undesirables and i to so space the remainder that ,each tree“ will do. its best. The ideal woodlot has in it _when yodng, 1,200 to 1,500 trees per acre. This crowding 115‘ necessary to make the trees grow tall and straight. Grad- ually this stand is thinned out until, .when mature, the number will be more. nearly 250 or 300. Keep the Forest Floor Shaded. Woodlots should not be opened up too much. at one time. Whenthe forest floor is kept shaded, the mulch of leavesisable to keep the soil in a moist condition. Where the cover is opened'up,'admitting sunlight and cur- rents of air, the forest floor becomes dried out, which results in a slacken- ing up of the growth rate of the trees in that particular area. A common fault found in most wood- 1' trees and trees of poorer species. This indicates poor management during the past. We all know that if the best trees are continually being removed, eventually nothing but inferior varie- ties will be left because it is the in- ferior varieties that have been favored and allowed to reproduce themselves. This fault can be remedied by remove ing gradually and replanting to better species. A Good Woodlot Contains No Grass. Another serious fault with the aver- age woodlot is that it has been used as a pasture. Most farmers know from experience that a. woodlot makes a very poor pasture. A good woodlot contains no grass and cattle are forced to browse off the sprouts that come up. Before long there is not a young tree coming in to take the place of those that have died. Besides this, the sharp hoofs break up the leaf mold and trample and harden the soil and expose the roots which often lie just below the leaf mold. As a result, the trees begin to suffer for lack of _mois— ture. Here and there one dies, allow- ing more light to come in, resulting ina rather poor crop of grass, weeds and briers. It is poor economy to al- low the woodlot to be used for a pas- ture because the harm done in the end ‘ outweighs the small benefits received. The edges of the woodlot should be left intact as 'much as possible as the trees and small growth found growing here act as a wind barrier. It is highly desirable to keep the wind out of the woodlot so that the leaves, when they fall, will stay on the ground instead of being blown out. All small growth left in the woodlot tends to hold the leaves in place. . Watch Ground Fires. Another woodlot enemy is fire. Hap- pily, most farm woodlots are free from the fire menace. Often the result of years of carefulness can be wiped out by a single small ground fire. Fire not only destroys the humus which has been accumulating for years, but also kills all young tree growth. There is no such animal as a harmless ground fire. What has been said can be condens- ed into a few good rules: (1) Cull out over-mature, defective and diseased trees; (2) Take out the weed trees; (3) Thin out overcrowded stands, fav- oring the fast growers and the desir- ables; (4) Avoid large openings; (5) Plant desirable trees where necessary; (6) Keep out fire; (7) Keep out cattle. The Swaty girls have new spring hats. 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As a. medium for propagation the laurel wreath should be draped over the brow of the common house fly. At the age of two and one-half days she is able to deposit approximately 150 eggs. These eggs, deposited in its ideal breeding bed, which, owing to the heat it generates in fermentation is horse manure, will hatch into mag< gots in eight hours. The maggots reach the pupae stage in three days under favorable conditions. The pupa becomes a full grown fly in from three to six days. Think of that, an indi- vidual ten and one-half days old being the mother of 150 full grown children, the grandmother of several thousand at the end of sixteen days, and the great grandmother of better than a million in the course of a month. While various remedies, such as screens, sticky fly paper, poisons and traps, prove effectual in reducing the number to an appreciable extent, the logical point of attack should be at its source. While it is far more econom- ical, both- as to retaining the full fer- tilizing value of the manure, and checking the fly menace, to draw the manure to the fields each day, the av- erage farmer finds himself, during the busy time of the year, unable to spare the time for this purpose. thile numerous experiments, such as manure pits constructed of cement, and made fiy proof, slatted racks where manure is piled, the fly maggot crawling down between the slats and dropping in a water tank placed be- low, have been tried and found effect- ual; it would seem that such equip- ment would be beyond the scope of the average farmer. It would seem for him that the most logical solution was the chemical treatment of the manure. Experiments where a half pound of powdered hellebore was mixed with ten gallons of water, stirred well and allowed to stand twenty-four hours, then sprinkled thoroughly through ten cubic feet of manure, was found to de- stroy from eighty-eight to ninety-nine per cent of the fly larvae. As this so- lution is slightly poison it should not be left standing where it might be Made in six basic sizes which can be fur- niahed with regular heads or with various extensions up to 14 ft. cut. Dials: are of cutlery steel with edge: forged sharp. CLARK “CUTAWAY” Implements arc the only ones having forged edge disks. 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Experiments where one pound of powdered borax was sifted over the surface of about sixteen cubic feet of manure, then sprinkled with water, was found to destroy about ninety per cent of the larvae, while a large proportion of borax over the same amount of manure destroyed ninety-eight to ninety-nine per cent. It was found that mixing with each bushel of manure one—half pound of calcium cyanamid with one-half pound of acid phosphate then wet down with water not only added to the fertilizing value of the manure, but destroyed ap- proximately ninety—eight per cent of the fly larvae as well. COLLEGE COURSE AT HOME. ARE you taking advantage of the wireless extension course now be- ing put on by the Michigan Agricul- tural College? From March 16 to 27 crops and soils will have considera< Niagara Falls, N. Y I ByG.EVeritt l' ’ " ; ‘ . tion; from March 30 to April 10, poul— try husbandry, live stock and dairying. subjects will be broadcast, from April 13 to 24, gardening .has its innings, and from April 27 to May 8, ho'memak‘ ers receive their part of the course. Members of the college faculty give the majority of these lectures.’ You can even take an examination, if you will enroll with WKAR, East Lansing. COOPERATE TO IMPROVE METH- ODS. A NEW type of cooperatiOn has just been entered into by 240 farmers in four Illinois counties who have banded together in order that they might employ a trained man to assist them in keeping farm accounts and putting their farm operations on a. more efficient and profitable basis. The new cooperative movement, which is known as the “farm bureau farmman- agement service,” 'was organized by the farm organization and manage ment department of the College of Ag- riculture, University of Illinois, in co- operation with the farm. bureaus of Livingston, McLean, Tazewell and Woodford counties. The work of the service will be directed by the college with the aid of an advisory committee consisting of one member from each of the cooperating counties. Most of the cost connected with the service will be met by the 240 farmers themselves. The total cost will be about $25 a. member a year, in order that the work may be given ample op- portunity to succeed, each of the 240 members has signed up for three years. Organization of the 240 farmers to receive the proposed service is the out- growth of farm management extension work which the college and the VVood— ford county farm bureau started with sixty farmers in that section nine years ago. Of the men who originally began the work in 1916, a. total of nineteen of them completed their records every year for a seven—year period. Some idea of the value in keeping and study‘ ing accounts such as those used by the farmers, can be gained from the results which they obtained on their farms. In 1922, the seventh year in which they kept records, each of the men- realized an average net income which was larger by $650 than it would have been had he not used the ac counts in finding out how his business might be improved. During the past four years approxi- mately 100 Woodford county farmers have been assisted with the account work. One farmer pointed out that if he had to pay for the service it would be worth from $100 to $200 a year to him. Farm accounts kept by the “'ood- ford county farmers led them to im- prove the organization and operation of their farms in ways that added ap- proximately $650 to their net incomes in 1922, the seventh consecutive year in which they kept accounts. Practically all of the 240 farmers having made an inventory of their farm business and started a system of simple financial accounts in the farm account book. They will make an in- ventory of their farm businesses at the beginning and end of each year and keep a record of the amount of prod- ucts produced on their farms during the year. At the end of the year, these records and accounts will be c105ed and the farmers assisted in analyzing their business to find the weak spots. If common wood ashes are put into one of the sifter cans and used for cleaning the sink, bottom of kettles, in fact, anything where the cleaning powder has been used, will be found to do the work just as well. Mrs. VV.B.W.'-'" . Hi’ .a—I' «WWW .V ‘ ‘.""‘” .m... ._ »- _ ,mau ' r roman;- _-_,,.,.,.‘~‘* :~:_ _ ~v . rams.- Lv r! t Y‘SFICD I‘IIWWWH‘H‘VCDUli-r wr—r—n. . mmm‘ww . {as .. fistat. shalom . ' - thermostat, and burnshard, 8631- I , January 1, taking space in two farm ' enough to still come to maturity. I hi I sell A No.’1 and A No. 2 grade of seed cern. In the No. 1 grade of corn, every ear must show strong germina- tion in every kerneltested. That germ- inatiOn has taught me more about corn . than, I ever dreamed. For instance, few people realize how far the sprout from a kernel should shoot with only the food in the kernel to nourish it. I’Ve had some corn that grew twelve “ inches highon its own nourishment. Weaker corn that still germinates may grow only two or three inches high. I know that the strong germination with both a vigorous stalk and root helped greatly in bringing my corn through the adverse weather of last spring. Last year, I started advertising on 5 Mr. Clement says the study of corn germination is fascinating work. To meet his approval each kernel must exhibit a' strong stalk and a strong root system. papers, some local 'Weeklies and an Adrian daily. Mrs. Clement was my big help in handling all correspond- ence, as well as giving valuable advice on other matters. we have a printed circular describing the corn, giving our guarantee, price and so on, which We always enclose with our regular re- ply to all inquiries. I maintained this ninety-nine per cent germination, not only by individ- ually ear testing all seed, but by per- sonally looking after the shelling of it. Every ear is first shelled in a pan and examined before being thrown in with the bulk. The less desirable ears still germinating better than ninety-five per cent, I have sold as a No. 2 grade of seed, and I’ve been recommending it for silage and selling it at a lower price. All seed is butted, tipped and graded. This year I have a new rotary grader to cull out misformed kernels. No, I haven’t been able to quite sup- ply the demand. Last year I sold just under $5,000 worth of seed corn and had to turn back more than $1,000 in bona fide cash orders because I was all sold. This year I have more corn, as I contracted for corn grown from my seed by a couple of neighbors, and I also selected seed out of some Reg- istered Duncan corn grown in this 10- cality, about 200 bushels, by weight, of seed ears of this variety. Just recently, the Michigan Crop Im- provement Association has accepted, my variety as one of the standard ped- igreed varieties in the state and my seed has met the inspection require- ments of the association for registered and certified seed. In the growing-of my crop, I have found, for my conditions, that planting about May 20-25 was most satisfac- tory. I have thus avoided much bad spring weather and my corn is early ”l“: T‘C . EC ‘\ ‘lll. .'. l a \ P." kill.“ V' ‘ ‘ _: "illifllJ . \ Put Richness Back in ALL men who have made good money at 5 l 'l their soil fertile and rich. There are poor years and good years in farming but the man who puts manure on his fields in the right way will reap real profits. The McCormick-Deering Manure Spreader is one of the most valuable machines on the farm. It increases yields, pays for itself in a hurry and goes on building bank accounts. It spreads smoothly and evenly, putting on just as light orvas heavy a coat as you want. The pitchfork method of spreading cannot equal the , yields that follow the McCormick-Deering. That ' has been proved many times. Besides hand spreading is hard work; the McCormick-Deering saves many hours of time and much hard labor. Its good strong heaters tear the manure rapidly and spread it well beyond the wheels. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY i of America 606 So. 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About forty per Cent of the crop has been suitable for good seed and the balance goes in the crib for my Duroc hogs. The seed ears are put into the dryer and racked immediately. They are never exposed to freezing weather. A most convincing argument for this care in the handling of my seed corn has been that despite the fact that the general corn crop of 1924 was much poorer than that of 1923, I actually in- creased my yield ten bushels per acre. The official report of the Michigan Corn Contest gave me a. five—acre yield of seventy-two bushels per acre in 1923 and eighty—two in 1924. This is shelled corn fifty-six pounds per bushel at fourteen per cent moisture. Last year I sold about 800 bushels of corn,'enough to plant 5,600 acres at the usual rate of one bushel for sev- en acres. It has been a keen satisfac- tion to me to know that all of this corn, in so far as I have been able to learn, came through the bad season of 1924 in good shape. I think that the biggest enjoyment in this work is in putting out something that seems to be worth while. I have orders for over $1,000 worth of seed corn to date andyninety-five per cent of the business has been from custom- ers of last year. My corn seemed to do well for others as well as for my- Corn- Seéd from ”me, WV .19 Or Deerfield, Sold' ‘over $5, Clement’s VVhitecap yearn for grain to_ the Dee'rfield Co—op, it being part of the crop off 108 acres. left and fed enough to bring his total yield to about 7,000 bushelsh nearly seventy bushels of shelled corn per acres. I feel that I have made only a begin- ning in the seed corn business, still He has enough , my experience of" these two years has » taught me some principles which I am ; going to follow, and which I believe , will help me progress. 1. My first is fundamental: Produce efficiently. I cannot sell anything till I produce it, and every extra dollar of production costs eats into my margin ‘ of profit. Efficient production comes from big'yields per acre and depends upon a. fertile soil, careful working of r the land, and good seed. Naturally, I am strong fonthe good seed. 2. Quality. I’m sticking that up for a motto on the farm gate. I must have something to sell better than that usu‘ ally offered. That means extra work, but it keeps me out of the general competition. 3. Advertising. 1 must let people find out that I have a special product and I must describe it honestly and conservatively. I’d rather understate the qualities of my seed than overstate them. 4. I might call the last principle, “good business.” It involves records on production, records on the perform« ance of the corn, an accurate check on all inquiries and orders for seed. and immediate attention to all correspond ence and the wishes of my customers. A Crop Improver’s Surprise Experzencé Wit/z Potatoe: and Com By E. M. Morre OR years it has been my practice to select seed potatoes at digging time, selecting seed from hills which contained a standard number of potatoes of a standard type. The stand- ard in number varying with seasonal and general crop conditions and the standard of type being that all pota- toes of these hills shall be of market size and type. In following this plan 1 have been able, in years past, to improve yield and type in the varieties I have grown, and have been fully convinced that this was the most practical way for farmers to keep up the standard of their potatoes. Now the surprise. In the fall of 1923 when selecting my seed potatoes, I selected about two bushels of the most perfect type of potatoes, regardless of the kind of a hill they grew in, with the idea of sorting out enough of the very best tubers to make an exhibit at the potato Show at the college last Winter. Last spring, when I planted my pc- tatoes, I had these choice tubers still in the cellar, so just for the sake of trying a new stunt and in spite of my judgment, based on theory and years of experience, I planted these in a block by themselves. Imagine my con~ sternation when I dug these potatoes to find that the yield from these choice individual tubers was very much great- or and the quality of the potatoes was higher than what I got from my ortho- dox hill-selected seed. While one swallow docs not make a summer, yet I have been forced to question my theory of hill selection. I was not sufficiently disturbed in my old belief that I did not hill-select seed again this past fall; but, I have a nice lot of show potatoes also, selected as before Without regard to the families in which they grew and shall try that stunt over again this year. It is just a little disturbing to have one’s the- ory, which he thought was unassail- able, upset in this way, but it is the better crop I am after and if, by further testing, I find it will have to be discarded for a better one, then it will have to go. Time will tell. An Experience With Corn. My second surprise was with corn. To a man raised with and on flint corn, the variational characteristics of most; of our dent corns are not pleasing to the eye. For the past three years I have. been trying to standardize the type of each of my corn produces. I started out with the Pickett Dent corn. The trouble with. this variety is that it; is not true to type. Ears will vary from fourteen rows up to tWenty‘four or twenty-six. I determined to correct this if pos- sible. So, three years ago, I planted quite an area from ears with only eighteen rows. This fall I could not see that the crop had any larger per cent of eighteen rowed ears than had the previous crop planted from cars without regard to the number of rows. However, I selected enough eighteen— rowed ears to plant a whole field the next year. This time the percentage of eighteen-rowed ears was but little changed, but I noticed that I seemed to get a larger per cent of 20—22-24-1‘0wed cars. This last season I planted still another field to eighteen-rowed ears and I could not see, when I harvested the corn, that I got any appreciable increase in eighteen—rowed ears over what I had been getting before. Now, this experience is something of a surprise party, for I started with the firm conviction that it would take only a few years of careful selection to produce a type of corn that would unis formly grow eighteen—rowed ears. I am not licked yet, but I am now won- dering if I will live long enough to make that corn play true to Hoyle. In matters that can be decided but Once there should be mature considen atipn. " ' ' ‘ “ 111 1d d~ s. oanzaooeo *1 '1 ' I _, Emuifst OR several years fruit growers in several of the southern states where the San Jose scale has been much more trbublesome than in Mich- igan have found it difficult, if not im- possible, to control this insect ‘by us- ing the dormant lime-sulphur Solution, but have had excellent results with home-made lubricating oil emulsions. During the past two years this ma- terial has been used in many sections of Michigan and with gratifying re- sults. Detailed reports have been fur- nished this office in reply to question- naires, and the parties reporting ex- p1ess themselves as well pleased with the results, and expect to use the oil emulsion on their trees the coming season. Not only were they able to control the San Jose scale and free the trees of other insects, but the cost was only about one—fourth as much as lime- sulphur solution, and only about one- twelfth as much as would have been required for some of the leading mis- cible oils. ’The oil emulsions, natur- ally, are much pleasanter to apply than lime-sulphur solution, the use of which "has been abandoned by many growers on account of its caustic nature. The following letter has just been received from a fruit grower in north- ern Michigan as a sample of what others have written: February 16, 1925. “L. R. Taft, State Department of Agriculture, Lansing, Michigan. Dear Sir: _ Last spring you instructed me how to make and apply an oil emulsion. I have been intending to report to you the results. Through some means several of our apple and pear tiees became infested with San Jose scale. We were not able to control it with lime-sulphur and last year, following your instructions, we applied an early pre—pink spray of the emulsion. The yearbefore under a 1-7 application of lime-sulphur with the ordinary summer sprays, every ap- ple on eight or ten large trees were so specked with scale that not one was fit for anything but cider. Following , the application of home-made oil emul- sion, with the exception of perhaps a peck of Yellow Transparents, we did not have an apple specked in the least. Our folaige was not injured in the least and our trees seemed to thrive. I desi1e to express to you my appre- ciation for the information. Ve1y t1 uly Leelanau Cdunty.” The emulsion may be prepared in advance, or, without loss of time, a batch sufficient for a spray tank may be prepared while the tank is being filled with. water. The socalled “cold emulsion” should be used unless it is .to be stored for some time, when the soap emulsion will be found more stable. The formula for the cold emulsion requires four gallons of Diamond par- afin oil, two gallons of water, one pound of blue vitriol and two pounds of hydrated lime. This should be thor- oughly mixed and then passed twice through a spray pump under a good pressure. If a solution of copper sul- phate is prepared at the rate of one pound to a gallon, and hydrated lime is made into a paste in the proportion of two pounds to one gallon of water, there will be no delay in making the emulsion. Diamond Paraffin oil 01' Jun- ior Red Engine oil are giving the best results. These may be obtained from the Standard Oil Company at all of their larger stations in Michigan, and can be secured almost anywhere with three or four days notice. 1 The cost of materials is only about seventy—five cents for enough’ emulsion to make 200 gallons. Care, of course, should be taken that the oil does not separate ‘from the emulsiOn, and there will be no danger of this if prepared as above, and the pump is kept running until the tank is , emptied .4 New Spray W/iir/z Ha: Prawn Efficient I By L. R. Taft State Harem/men The Oil emulsion should only be con- sidered as a remedy for the scale in- sects and other insects which are on the trees in the early-spring before the leaves are developed. Best results would be obtained if it is used asa. delayed dormant or a pre-pink applica- tion. If delayed until after the leaves have commenced to develop some slight injury may be done to the leaves, but new ones will soon appear, and the crop of fruit will not be in— jured. The emulsion is giving good re- sults against plant lice, both in the egg form and immediately after they have hatched, but, of course, it only destroys those which are reached by the spray, and great pains must be taken to have the trees well sprayed. The trees may be seriously injured if the oil emulsion is used during the freezing weather, and it should not be applied to trees of any kind when it is likely to drop to forty degrees within thirty-six hours. Applications made in the fall are not desirable, but if: the treatment is delayed until the buds are beginning to open, no harm will be done unless freezing weather follows before the water has evaporated. Oil emulsion should not be consid— ered in any sense a remedy for plant diseases, but it is possible to add Bor- deaux mixture or lime—sulphur solution at the summer strength to a two per cent oil emulsion (four gallons in 200 gallons) and thus obtain a remedy against scale insects and aphids, and also against the fungus diseases. If used against canker worms, and other chewing insects, arsenate of lead may be added to the combination. This is intended for the pie- pink 01 pink sprays, and should not be used after the leaves am out. Leaflets giving complete information on the above will be sent on request. THE HOME ASPARAGUS BED. HAVE never had much trouble growing good asparagus, but I have seen some bad failures among my neighbors. I figure that they did not begin right. I prepare the bed well before planting, for that is the main thing in getting the asparagus estab- lished. It is a strong grower and a heavy feeder and when once establish- ed will make good. I dig or plow the soil very deep, first applying a. heavy coat of manure well dug into the sur- face, or disced in if much is to be planted. This works the manure all through the soil. The manure should be fairly well rotted I remove six inches of the su1face soil before set- ting the 100ts, and level the bottom of the hill except for a little mound in the middle. The crown is set on this and the roots spread out evenly. Fill the soil in two inches over‘ the crowns and make firm. Fill up level after the new shoots are growing—C. O. I PLANT HARDY SEEDS EARLY. I LIKE to get my garden in as early as possible, and I have found that I can plant seeds of radishes, lettuce, mustard, turnips, spinach, and some other hardy vegetables just as soon as the ground thaws out, even in midwin- ter, and they will lie there without harm until warm enough for them to germinate. Such seeds come up be- fore we can get the soil ready to plant in many springs and they make for very early garden. The bed should be well prepared and the seeds planted in rows and marked and covered rath- er more shallow than ordinarily. Some plant the smooth peas thus early, but I do not believe that it is best for they are prone to decay in the ground if it should be damp and cold for a long time—A. H. “6.05 at 0": F ERTILIZERS “‘The World’s Best. by Every Test" FOODS It is a duty to provide gobd wholesome food for one’s family and economy to furnish good nutrir tious food for one’s stock. It is equally important to feed onc’s crops with the best plant foods, pre— pared in such forms and condition as to be readily available to the tender plant rootlets. The best plant foods are more carefully selected and more scientifically prepared and compounded than foods for man or beast. “AA QUALITY” FERTILI ZERS comprise all the essential factors of the bus 1 plant foods that ractical experience and sc.cnt1fic re— search of over half a century have developed. To insure the largest yield and best quality of all crops use “AA QUALI ” FERTILIZERS Manufactured by The American Agricultural Chemical Company Executive Offices: 2 Rector Street, New York Our Agricultural Service Bureau will help solve your farming, problems. Send to: their Crop Bulletins. Address: 92 State Street. Boston, Mass. SOUTHERN‘HARYLAND Where the Climate is Farmers from your State have heated in this land of ideal climate and are doing well. Your opportunity is here. Write for literature. K. A. McRAE, Southegpduaryland Immigration Commission DO N’T WEAR A TRUS 5 BE COMFORTABLE— Wear the Brooks Appliame, the modern scientific invention whit. h glvesru ture sufferers immediate relief. 1: has no obnoxious springs . Automatic Air Cushions WITH you. parts No salves or plasters.Durable. anon“ Cheap. Sent on trial to prove its "I. C. E' worth. Beware of imitations. Look for trade-mark hearing portrait and signature of O. E. Brooks w appears on every Appliance. None other genuine.“ Mormntion in loin, coded can” _ lmooxs aniline: 00., 32's: 1 :1. ma. M Executive Secy College Park, Md. .. k avélyf ' W ll, lull’lflg Getting Ready for WHAT? ’ ‘ BIG CROP or a little one? It takes just as much la— bor and just as much money to get ready for one as the other. And then if you sow the wrong kind of seed, you lose your time and money. Free Before you buy your seed this Spring, send for “7 Lessons in Judging Seed,’ an authoritative book- let on seeds, seed testing and seed buying. Worth dollars and cents to every farmer. Sent free as long as they last. Write today. THE ALBERT DICKINSON Co. CHICAGO MINNEAPOLIS mrlsncnau NEW YORK mxonsuron BUFFALO BOSTON . -- 1;? it SEEDS Sold By Good Dealers EVeryWIIere POULTRY TRAIN ANNOUNCED. HE Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic run a. poultry train over their lines in the Upper Peninsula starting late in April and lasting about three weeks. Plans for the train have been worked out by Mr. J. A. Jeffery, Land Com- missioner of the South Shore, and he will be assisted in their execution by the extension department of the Mich- ' igan Agricultural College and the Up- per Peninsula. Development Bureau. The makeup of the train has yet to be determined. Many points along the lines of the two railways will be vis- ited by the train in order that farmers and poultrymen may see the exhibit ,and hear the talks by the poultry ex- ‘perts that will accompany the train. These talks will deal with breeding, feeding, housing, breeds, etc. The train will carry an exhibit of typical egg and meat strains of poul- try, of model coops, feeding apparatus and other ‘supplies required in poultry culture has a well established position in northern Michigan and this train will do much to encourage and pro- mote it.—-L D. Chase. CLUB WORK FLOURISHES. HERE are at present over 5,000 boys and girls enrolled in clubs in the peninsula. Of this number, 450 are members of calf clubs, where each owns his own calf. This showing rep— resents an increase of better than 4,500 Please Mention The Michigan Farmer When Writing to Advertisers 4-5 KEEPS—1’5?“Fri?VP‘TP‘JPR???Q??§P?EW§PQ‘P§P¥MQQWWQW9m9999W9‘?W?WQ§F¢FWH?G‘§PR?RFMWC" 0 $900,000 Dated January 1, 1925. . - payable at the Second N at1ona1 Bank of Saginaw. $500 or $100 bonds, interchangeable. rfiflflfir‘hHBNHAMHVHAI‘SPEHMHHNWHHHWHHHSAHH W’ 1’1” became famous throughout the United States. llJLJLJl uuleL‘ ll. 11;: u u.- u r11 11 11;: 11 II 1(1rnu u u ullfl‘l of about $2,274 for each $1,000 bond. will hav‘ea valuation of approximately $200,000. £111.11 Jr 11 1| JIJLJL ll 11' nuuunnnunnnn"unwrunul With Associates, We Have Underwritten and Offer for Subscription BANCROF T HOTEL COMPANY First Mortgage 6% Serial Gold Bonds Due serially. Principal and semi-annual interest Denominations $1 .000, THE SECOND NATIONAL BANK OF SACINAW, TRUSTEE The Bancroft Hotel was established in 1859, arid for 30 years after 1874 was under the management of Mr. Farnham Lyon, and during that period The proceeds from the sale of these bonds will be used to retire all outstanding bonded indebted- ness and to provide funds for the construction of a new 6-story addition now being erected, at a cost, including furnishings, of $320,000. In the opinion of Counsel, these bonds will be a direct obligation of the Bancroft Hotel Company, Saginaw, Michigan, and secured by a Closed First Mortgage on all real-estate, buildings and equipment now owned or hereafter acquired, having an appraised valuation This does not include the furnishings, wh1ch The average net earnings of the present hotel for the five year period ending De- cember 31, 1924, as certified by Ernst 85 Ernst, were $98,855.40 before interest, l Infill-I'll I “unfit :- nurlulllnnleu uni-nun l I: 1 1runnnn1run 11 u l’lljlllu | JL 1L 11 1r 1: 11 114;: u u 11 Al JI 1| l 1 11 1111 11 n u JLMJLII 1| llJlJl n 11 1 IIJLII u u 1r n n 11 n 11 u u u n u u l I 1 11 11 JL 11 Jl 11 u JI 11 11 J1 u u n 11 u 11 11 11 I 1 I 1 l l 1 Wu depreciation and Federal Taxes. 3‘ 5 We offer bonds maturing 1929-40 inclusive. 1'— —' — _ — — "" — — — — — "' 1:! : subjeCt to prior sale ' I am interested in your BANCROFT HOTEL =1: 1 l : PR! CE 1 00 and interes‘: | COMPANY issue and suggest you reserve ....... Q. , We Recommend these bonds for invesfmgnt, and if I g 1:. =1_ interested, suggest you 11 l in and mm t e accom- _ ................ d 5:, ‘; panying coupon. I bonds maturing about: ............. :1 - . . an 3 » ': I send full particulars Without obl1gat10n on my part. 5 a: “I =15 :: atli g, LerChen & Company I Name ............................................................ . :E l := Congress & Shelby Streets, Detroit : 5;; l C I .............................................. . ......... .1' a: I Address 1] g mill-ll-Il-lfll-llll“ ------- I‘ll-II‘I nnnnnnn HITlI-Kllxfl‘lJLIlLI-LlilbfilllllIIfiLfllLLJIJfi1K‘I‘IllJ’L College. are regarded as favo1 able ' are provided. ' in‘ the past three years, yet only four. 1 teen per cent of the boys and girls eligible to membership are actually. and the 800 Line Railways will enrolled in the clubs. POULTRY DATA GATHERED FROM ; FARMS. IGHTY poultry farms have been established in the Upper Peninsula. These are under the general supervision of Mr. J. A. Hannah, of the Michigan Agricultural It is expected that local farm~ ers will study the results obtained on these farms for their own benefit. The Michigan Agricultural College is as signing a poultry specialist to the Up< per Peninsula who will establish a lab- oratory for the diagnosis of diseases of poultry. ADVISES SUGAR FACTORY LIME. ENOMINEE county farmers to the number of 107 recently un— loaded 34,400 Pounds of pyrotol, the new War-salvaged explosive, which will complete the orders for the past sea« son. Another order will be assembled after the beginning of the year. County Agent Karl Knaus, is advis. ing Menominee county farmers toavail themselves of the opportunity to ,se— cure beet sugar factory lime for their land, there being a sugar factory in that county. This lime should be ap- plied at about one-quarter more to the acre than ground limestone, he says. The factory makes only a slight charge to cover cost of loading. PLANTING SUGGESTIONS. OUNTY Agent Karl Knaus has some timely words for his farmers relative to the use of seeds this spring, adapted to this latitude, and gthis advice is good to pass on. He points out that our giain crops while they p1oduce laigei yields pe1 ame than is the case with the same crops farther south, require seed that fits this environment. He also points out that good seed will be hard to get this year because of bad conditions alast year under which the crops were he recommends Golden Glow, grown. As for corn, \i'isconsin No. 25, or which affords the best results in this section, he says. The best results in cats come from Wolverine, Worthy or ISWedish Select. The extra cost of seed iof these varieties will easily be reconr pensed by the increased yields. The Russet Rural potatoes lead all other varieties in their yield. The Green Mountain, “'hite Rural and the Irish Cobbler get a slightly better price. For a cash crop, potatoes have been pretty uncertain as to priCe, while hay and grains deplete the soil. Menominee county has a sugar fac‘ tcry the only one in northern Michi- gan—and for some farmers 1'11 that 10- jcality sugar beets are a good cash crop, and the enlarged preserving fac- ' tory at Menominee also creates a mar ket for local canning material. Mr. Knaus advises that much of Menomi— :nee’s potato ameage be this yeai de« voted to suga1 beets 01 canning Ciops. MUNICIPAL MARKET GETS FARM. SCANABA tried out a municipal ma1ket last season and the lesults Local fai 111- 01s me asking, howevei, that the open malket space be enclosed so as to pro- vide shelte1 against cold and storms, fthat an ice box be provided to take jcare of left-over stock, and stalls be ‘furnished for the better display of faim produce. ' The farmers have er: piessed an intention of Continuing to use the market, it suitable demonstration ' facilities / FTER having finished our tours in Egypt we left Cairo by rail for . Jeru'saleniin Palestine. The ser- vice ong-the railroad, from the ,Suez canal is surprisingly good for this part i ‘ of the world. . The tourist who enters Palestine for the _ first. time should, and doubtless does, look forward to having some wonderful experiences. It is very likely ‘ that he will have a great diversity of emotions arot‘lsed before he leaves its , confines. , This is the home land Vof the great- est Teacher, and it gave to the world its greatest book. It is the birthplace of three religions, namely, Jewish, Mo- hammed and Christian; and it is the meeting ground of three continents. Here .are numerous places that are held sacred by millions of people. We entered Palestine with the inten- i tion of visiting several of these and This is Jerico, Once a Noted City, But Now its People Live in the Utmost Squalor. to observe the people, their methods of living, the various customs, the nature of the soils, possibilities for further development and the agricultural prac- tices that are in vogue. This is a country of extremes. There are plains, and valleys; there are hills whose summits reach several hundred feet above sea level, and also the Dead Sea, the surface of whose waters lie more than 1,200 feet below the level of the ocean, the vicinity of which is the lowest point on the face of the earth that is inhabited by human beings. Here the climate is suitable for the production of bananas and other trop- ical fruits. There exist great varia- tions with respect to rainfall and tem- perature. Owing to these extremes in soil and climatic conditions, there ex- ists representatives of nearly all the species of plants. The British have done much for the economic development of Palestine, and propose to do more by the con- struction of, railroads. With a stand- ard guage line from Egypt through Gaza and Ludd in the coastal plain to Haifa, at the foot of Mount Carmel, one of the chief seaports, and another from the port of Jaffa, crossing the other line at Ludd, to Jerusalem, the chief economic centers are well con— nected with Egypt and the outside world. The Haifa—Damascus road and several short branches make most of the country accessible by rail. There are splendid highways upon 3 which one may see American made automobiles and at the same time don- keys and camel caravans. These im- proved roads make the chief points of ' historical interest readily accessible to 1 the tourists. Of course, these are lim- ited in number and doubtless, the ma- :jority of the highways are about as 1 they were ages ago. On the whole,l . found this country to be exceedingly fascinating, although there is much Many Intermix Awazt tile Traveller 171 Holy Lana ;. - By M. M. McCool I estine that is extremely disgusting and repul- sive. It can be truthfully stated that one derives the most pleasure and sat- isfaction out of a trip to Palestine af- ter‘ his return to the quietness of his home; and, it is especially gratifying, ‘ when one reads the Bible‘to be able to visualize the various places that are mentioned therein. It is estimated that the population is 673,100, of which about 235,000 live "in the larger towns, leaving a rural community of approximately 440,000 people. The majority of the people are Moslems, although within the con- fines of Palestine are Jews, Greeks, Latins, Armenians, Serians, Abyssians, English, German and others. Many are maimed, blind, malformed and diseas- ed. There are numerous Catholic churches, and, in Jerusalem, I saw one Protestant church. As one should ex- pect, if for no other reason than that of Turkish rule for many years, the mass of the people is uneducated and appears to be very low grade intellec- tually. Many. of the sacred places are capitalized and admission fees are charged. Many thousands of Pilgrims from many annuaHy. There are many interesting and pe- culiar customs among the Arabs. Many of the women wear veils, usually gray- ish in color, whereas those, worn in Egypt are black.‘ It is generally be- lieved that an Arab thinks a great deal of his horse. There is a story to the effect that if one possesses a horse and should his friend lose one of his hors- es, he will likely take his own horse and tie it where the neighbor’s horse was tied and leave it there for seven days. He considers that his neighbor by this time has recovered somewhat from the shock. It occurs to me that this is largely fictitious, because many of the horses that I saw were hat rack affairs, half starved, and were cruelly treated generally. If they are illustra- tions of the Arab’s sentiment or pity, according to our standards, it certain- ly would be interesting to see illustra- tions of their lack of these virtues. It is also reported that a similar custom prevails among the women. If a wom— an’s baby dies, a neighbor will allow the mother of the dead baby to have her own child for seven days. It is difficult to reconcile this reported cus- Street Scene in the Old City of Bethlehem. tom with the facts that many mothers allow the flies to form in a solid line around their child’s eyelids and ex- plore its nose without attempting to prevent these familiarities. If a tourist can do so, it is advisable for him to make a trip to the caves of Machpeleh, which are situated near the village of Hebron, some twenty miles from Jerusalem. These are held sacred by the Arab Mohammedans and none are permitted to enter them ex- cept visiting princes of royal blood, and ambassadors, who represent the per- sons of their sovereigns. Since I am neither an Arab, Mohammedan, nor countries visit Palestine l Wushuofihfl’ahw ‘ HE Goodyear “Gold Seal” and the Lambertville“Snag—Proof” trade‘ : marks represent the two leading { ' standards of value in the rubber ‘foot‘ ‘ wear industry today. “Gold Seal” rubbers,boots, and overshoes rank first where exceptionally high quality is de- sired—are classified as “super—quality” merchandise. “SnagProof” rubber footwear leads among standard quality goods. The same careful, painstaking workmanship goes into both brands. You can secure no better values than the long—established, time—tested Goodyear “Gold Seal” and Lambertville “Snag—Proof” brands, which have more than fifty years of customer satisfaction behind them. Ask for these brands by name. They are sold by most good shoe mer- chants. 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These. caves”, are '"the authentic? graves of Abraham, Isaac'and Jacob. and of Sarah, Leah ,and Rebeccah. .These patriarchs are regarded "as the holiest of the Saints of Islam and for thousands of years they have been so carefully guarded that Christians or~ Jews have not been permitted to visit these caves, the only exceptions hav- ing been those stated above. It is said that the male members of avparty are not permitted to inspect the tombs of Sarah, Leah and Rebeccah, but the lad- ies of a party, who are permitted to enter the caves, may look within the enclosures. If one is fortunate enough to be in Palestine on Easter, it is decidedly worth while to make a trip to Mt. Jer- zim and witness the Easter sacrifices. The inhabitants of 'this vicinity num« her about 140 and have scrupulously refrained from marrying outside their tribe and have retained,‘unchanged, the customs which their lineal ances- tors observed in the remotest Biblical times, ante-dating the Christian era by many centuries. During Easter week they dwell in about twenty camps and live as did their ancestors and worship God ac- cording to customs nearly four thou- sand years old. They gather for the services just before sun down and con‘ tinue these all-through the night. They begin with prayer and song and keep this up until the sun has set. Then, seven beautiful White lambs are killed and cooked in a hole in the ground which had been heated previously; since, according to the law, no flames shall touch the meats of sacrifice. About midnight these are brought out and to each of the several groups is given one lamb, which is eaten hur- riedly‘. 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The old portion ..of' Jerusalem lies. within the walls, These walls .are in. a good state of repair 'and ‘are about thirty feet high, fifteen feet thick at the t pand areabout two and one—half . mile in length- Outside the walls there has grown up a more modern. section. 'Mark Twain describes this city as being “As knobby with count» less little domes as a prison door is with bolt heads. It looks as if it might be roofed from center to circumo- ference _with inverted saucers.” 'To me it resembles inverted oatmeal dish- es rather: than saucers. All the roofs are so arranged '_ that the rain that falls upon themruns into cisterns. The water so collected is an important source of supply. The streets are too ’narrow for vehicles; a good jumper could leap across them from one root to another. ' . Thereare several sacred places in, or near, Jerusalem, namely the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Site of King Solomon’s Temple, Solomon’s Stables, Solomon’s Quarries, Mount Calvary, Mount of Olives, Garden of Gethsem~ ane, Church of Nativity (at Bethle~ hem), and several others. We visited the majority of these and took numero ous pictures of them, but it is not pos» sible to describe them in these articles. Most of the sacred places are covered by Catholic churches in which various sections worship. Pilgrims attend mass in these churches. The Orthodox Jews of Jerusalem have some very unusual and interest— ing customs. There are numerous aged ‘Jews who have come here to die so that they can be buried in the Jewish cemetery, which lies near the city; When a Jewess becomes engaged to be married, her head is‘shaved and is kept in this Condition until the birth of the first child. The men, in order not to be attractive 'and thus be tempt- ed, wear black clothes and a long cork screw curl of hair on each side of the head. These curls protrude several inches from under their black flat-top- ped fur-rimmed hats. They are not attractive! It is said that they never eat meat from Christians, and the pig- eons that they consume are bought from their own people. Should an Or- thodox Jew buy from Christians he is put out of the church for a certain. length of time. It is also said that: they do not smoke on Saturday, and all .their food is cooked on the day previous, and is kept in outfits similar to our fireless cookers. Since the Turks were ousted from. Palestine, the British have brought about conditions so that the Jews may have the same privileges as other pe0~ ple of Palestine. This stimulated the Zionistic movement greatly, it seems. According to Henry Morganthau, “Zionism is based upon a promise made to the Jews in the Old Tests: ment that Zion should be restored to them and that they should resume their once glorious place as a peculiar people singled out by God for his spe— cial favor, exercising dominion over their neighbors in His name and en- joying all the freedom and blessing of the race under the unique protection of the Almighty.” This movement is not a new idea, but it gained a fresh impetus follow- ing the outbreak of wholesale massao cre in Russia. This nation which, of course, is to be in Palestine, is to be not only the seat of religion and the home of distinctive racial culture, but is to be as well a politiCal entity with a capital city. - It is reported that Jewish emmigrav tion into Palestine is quite extensive. About 5,500 Jews came in from May 1; 0t August 7. The Arabs do not. look: very favorably upon this movement. The Michigan fox breeders' associap tion are arranging to market the: pelts of foxes raised on members’ farms. , w w‘,_ Am ,- _. ~ ‘- m - 1-. “M «f __,.. a, ,, ‘mrw “’V"M/-" “' l \ .;::'_‘:-- “W“ I - ... 4-..... .--..»n-ummmw»flfiImmmWW ' ' Lauretta. Corlett unveiled Joseph William F .Jardine, new Secretary of Agriculture, and President of This is the architect’s model of the Jefferson memorial window in Kansas State Agricultural College, is shown here with his family, new Union Terminal to be built ‘1' “Little Church Around Corner.” Mrs. Sardine and their three children, Marian, Billy and Ruth. at Cleveland, Ohio. . ”fix. ,. -»««..»./ _ 5..-... On this stand in front of the Capital, President Coolidge and Vice- ~, - President Dawes, took the inaugural oath. Distinguished visitors 5 sat in the small stand to the left. Doctor Carver’s beautiful daughter rode her high diving horse, train- ed after years of patient persistence in perfect diving form, from a high platform, into a shallow tank at Tampa, Florida. ,.....,- mum-.. _ 4 . “Sweet as a cookie and nearly as well baked.” King George V is suffering from :- All India was startled is men and women of all is Veronica Mitchell as she tries the hot air severe attack of influenza. Three castes sat down to eat together at. the wed- bath to reduce Without effort. doctors are in attendance. «ling feast of these two high caste Hindus. \ ) Doctor Sao-ke Alfred ~Sze, and wife, Chinese Minister at Washing— S eant J h L f .; , ton, praised the fight for rigid restriction put up by the~American erg 0 n J. 0 tus, Q. M. C" was the last U. S. A. E. F. man ' . . to leave Euro e. Ser eant L . . , ' . ‘ t p delegation at International Narcotic Conference in Geneva. and is shown'phere with his (gigliiigis been m Furope Since 1917’ 3.! - _ - JJ ‘4 Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Newn’ork Y .M’On'dayafternoon.‘the parlo that how Halsted road wereiagh Ween the hours of three and flVe when the market wagons were to be seen mbving toward Chicago. Klaas Pool at dinner that. noon had spoken of Se— lina’s contemplated trip with a ming- ling of pity and disapproval. 1 “It ain’t decent a woman should drive to market.” , ' Mrs.‘ Klaas Pool (they still called , 'her'as the Widow Paarlenberg) smiled her slipper crooked smile. What could you expect! Look how she’s always acted.” ' Klaas did not follow this. He was busy with his own train of thought. “It don’t seem hardly possible. Time she come here school teacher, I drove her out and she was like a little robin or what, set up on the seat. She says, I remember like yesterday, cabbages was beautiful. I bet she learned dif- ferent by this time.” But she hadn’t. So little had Selina learned in these past eleven years that now, having loaded the wagon in the yard she surveyed it with more sparkle in her eye than High Prairie would have approved in a widow of little more than a week. They had picked and bunched only the best of the late crop—the firmest reddest radishes, the roundest juciest beets; the carrots that tapered a good seven inches from base to tip; kraut cabbages of the drum- head variety that Were flawless green balls; firm juicy spears of cucumber; cauliflower (of her own planting; Per— vus had opposed it) that looked like a bride’s bouquet. Selina stepped back now and regarded this riot of crimson and green, of white and gold and purple. “Aren’t they beautiful! they beautiful?” Dirk, capering in his excitement at the prospect of the trip before him, shook his head impatiently. “What? I don’t see anything beautiful. What’s beautiful?” Selina flung out her arms. “The— the whole wagon load. The cabbages.” “I don’t know what you mean,” said Dirk. “Let’s go, Mother. Aren’t we going now? You said as soon as the load was on.” “Oh, Sobig, you’re just exactly like your——” She stopped. “Like my what?” “W'e’ll go now, son. There’s cold meat for your supper, Jan, and pota- toes all sliced for frying and half an apple pie left from noon. Wash your dishes—don’t leave them cluttering around the kitchen. You ought to get in the rest of the squash and pump- kins by evening. Maybe I can sell the lot instead of taking them in by the load. I’ll see a commission man. Take less, if I have to.” She had dressed the boy in his home— made suit cut down from one of his father’s. He wore a wide-brimmed straw hat which he hated. Selina had made him an overcoat of stout bean- sacking and this she tucked under the wagon seat, together with an old black fascinator, for though the September afternoon was white-hot she knew that ' the evenings were likely to be chilly, once the sun, a great crimson Chinese balloon, had burned itself out in a blaze of flame across the prairie hori- zon. Selina herself, in a full-skirted black-stuff dress, mounted the wagon agilely, took up the reins, looked down at the boy seated beside her, clucked to the horses. Jan Steen gave vent to a final outraged bellow. ' “Never in my life did I hear of such a thing!” > V Selina turned the horses’ heads to- ward the city. “You’d be surprised, Jan, to know of all the things you’re going to hear 0f some day that you’ve never heard of before.” Still, when t'Wenty years had passed and the Ford, the phonograph, the radio, and the rural mail delivery had dumped the World at Jan’s plodding feet he liked to tell of that momentous day when Dirk, aren’t Q talus-16f High Prairie farmhouses ' ed? as though by a brisk wind be- , Selina DeJong had driven off to mar- ket like a man with a wagon load of hand-scrubbed garden truck and the boy Dirk perched beside her on the seat. If, then, you had been traveling the Halsted road, you would have seen a decrepit wagon, vegetable-laden, driv- en by a too-thin woman, sail-ow, bright- eyed, in a shapeless black dress, a bat- tered black felt hat that looked like a man’s old “fedora” and probably was. Her hair was unbecomingly strained. away from the face with its high cheek bones, sothat unless you were really observant you failed to notice the ex- quisite little nose or the really fine eyes so unnaturally large now in the anxious face. On the seat beside her you would have seen a farm "boy of COPYRIGHT. 1924. DOUBLEDAY PAGE‘COMPANY_ i "B, EdFeM " i .selves. Now, as then, She was doing what was considered a revolutionary and daring thing; a thing that High Prairie regarded with horror. now, as then, she took stock. Youth was gone, but.She had health, cour- age; a 'boy of nine; twenty-five acres of wornout farm land; dwelling and out-houses in a bad state of repair; and a gay adventuresome spirit that was never to die, though it led her into curious places and she often found, at the end, only a trackless waste from which she had to retrace her steps painfully. But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and porphyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that. And the winered cashmere. She , SUGAR-MAXIM: EBy Alonzo Rice There are moments filled with rapture as of silver bells that chime, When the mind goes driftin, drifting to the past With its sunny slopes and meadows of my childhood's happy time, And the golden days too beautiful to last. And this one from recollections of the happy long ago, Round the corner of my memory lingers still; When the spicewood buds are swelling and. the pussy willows blow, And they tap the sugar maples on the hill! For each mile along the pathway there’s a patch of blue above, And the sun between the clouds is looking down; ' And it seems like fairy fingers, with a tender touch of love, Have bestoped updn each hill at glory crown. So my mind goes drifting, drifting to the Iilt of wooing birds, As the flowers peep beside the woodland rill; All of life is one fine poem running on in sweetest words, When they tap the sugar maples on the hill! nine or thereabouts—a brown freckle- faced lad in a comically home-made suit of clothes and a straw hat with a broken and flopping brim which he was forever jerking off only to have it set firmly on again by the woman who seemed to fear the effects of the hot afternoon sun on his close—cropped head. But in the brief intervals when the hat was off you must have noted how the boy’s eyes were shining. At their feet was the dog Pom, a mongrel whose tail bore no relation to his head, whose ill-assorted legs ap‘ peared wholly at variance with his sturdy barrel of a body. He dozed now, for it had been his duty to watch the wagon load at night, while Pervus slept. A shabby little outfit, _but mag- nificent, too. Here was Selina DeJong driving up Halsted road toward the city instead of sitting, black-robed, in the farm parlor while High Prairie came to condole. In Selina, as they jogged along the hot dusty way, there welled up a feeling very like elation. Conscious of this, the New England strain in her took her to task. “Selina Peake, aren‘t you ashamed of your- self! You’re a wicked woman! Feel— ing almost gay when you ought to be sad. Poor Pervus. . the farm. Dirk. and you can feel almost gay! You ought to be ashamed of yourself!” But she wasn’t, and knew it For even as she thought this the little wave of elation came flooding over her again. More than ten years ago she had driven with Klaas Pool up that same road for the first time, and in spite of the recent tragedy of her fath- er’s death, her youth,»her loneliness, the terrifying thought of the new home to which she was going, a stranger among strangers, she had been con- scious of a warm little thrill of ela- tion, of excitement—of adventure! That was it. “The whole thing’s just- a grand adventure.” her father, Simeon Peake, had said. And now the sensa- tions of- that day were repeating them- laughed aloud. “What are you laughing at, Mom?” That sobered her. “Oh, nothing, So- big. I didn’t know I was laughing. I was just thinking about a red dress I had when I first came to High Prairie a' girl. I’ve got it yet.” “What’s that to laugh at?” He was following a yellow-hammer with his eyes. “Nothing. Mother said it was noth- ing.” “Wisht I’d brought my sling-shot.” The yellow-hammer was perched on the fence by the roadside not ten feet away. “Sobig, you promised me you would not throw at any more birds, ever.” “Oh, I wouldn’t hit it. I would just like to aim at it.” Down the hot dusty country road. She was serious enough now. The cost of the funeral to be paid. The doctor’s bills. Jan’s wage. All the expenses, large and small, of the poor little farm holding. Nothing to laugh at, certainly. The boy was wiser than she. “There’s Mrs. Pool on her Mom. Rocking.” There, indeed, was the erstwhile Widow Paarlenberg on her porch, rock- ing. A pleasant place to be in mid afternoon of a hot September day. She stared at the creaking farm wagon, vegetable laden; at the boy perched 0n the high seat; at the sallow shabby woman who was charioteer for the whole crazy outfit. Mrs. Klaas Pool’s pink face creased in a smile. She sat forward in her chair and ceased to rock. “Where are you going this hot day, Mis’ DeJong?” Selina sat up very straight. Bagdad, Mrs. Pool.” “To—\l’here’s that? What for?” “To sell my jewels, Mrs. Pool. And to see Aladdin, and Harun-al—Rashid and Ali Baba. And the Forty Thieves.” Mrs. Pool had left her rocker and had come down the steps. The wagon creaked on past hergate. She took a step or two down the path, and called porch, (‘TO And .3 " tum "” ' Over her shoulder Selina called 0 from the wagon seat. “You just go 'until you come toa closed door. And you say, “Open SeSame,’ and there ybu are.” . . W Bewilderment shadowed Mrs. Pool’s placid face. As the. wagon lurched .on down the road it was Selina who was smiling and Mrs. 001 who was ser~ ious. ' The 'boy, round eyed, was looking up at his mother. - “That’s out of Arabian Nights, what you said. Why did you say that?” Suddenly excitement tinged his voice. “That’s out of the book. Isn’t it? Isn’t it! We’re not really—” She was a little Contrite, but not ,very. “Well, not really, perhaps. But ‘most any place is Bagdad if you don’t know what will happen in it. And this is an adventure, isn’t it, that we’re going on? How can you tell! All kinds of things can happen. All kinds of people. People in disguise in the Haymarket. Caliphs, princes, and slaves, and thieves, and good fairies and witches.” “In the Haymarket! to all the time! talk.” Within Selina something cried out, “Don’t say that, Sobig! Don’t say that!” ' On down the road. Here a head at a front room window. There a Woman’s calicoed figure standing in the door- way. Mrs. Vander Sijde on the porch, fanning her flushed face with her ap- ron; Cornelia Snip in the yard pretend- ing to tie up the drooping stalks of the golden-glow-and eyeing the approach- ing team With the avid gossip’s gaze. To these Selina waved, bowed, called. “How d’you do, Mrs. Vander Sijde!” A prim reply to this salutation. Dis- approval writ large on the farm—wife’s flushed face. “Hello, Cornelia!” A pretended start, notable for‘its bad acting. “Oh, is it you, Mrs. DeJong! Sun’s in my eyes. I couldn’t think it was you like that.” lVomen’s eyes, hostile, cold, peering. Five o’clock. Six. The boy climbed over the wheel, filled a tin pail with water at a farmhouse well. They ate and drank as they rode along, for there was no time to lose. Bread and meat and pickles and pie. There were veg- etables in the wagon, ripe for eating. There were other varieties that Selina might .have cooked at home in prepar- ation for this meal—German celery root boiled tender and soaked in vin— egar; red beets, pickzled; onions; cole- slaw; beans. They WOuld have regard- ed these with an apathetic eye all too familiar with the sight of them. Se- lina knew now why the Pools’ table, in her school-teacher days, had been so lacking in the green stuff she crav- ed. The thought of cooking the spin— ach which she had planted, weeded, spaded, tended, picked, washed, bunch- ed, filled .her with nausea of distaste such as she might have experienced at the contemplation of cannibalism. The boy had started out bravely enough in the heat of the day, sitting up very straight beside his mother, calling to the horses, shrieking and waving his arms at chickens that flew squawking across the road. Now he began to droop. Evening was coming on. A cool blanket of air from the lake on the east enveloped them with the suddenness characteristic of the region, and the mist began to drift across the prairie, softening the au- tumn stubble, cooling the dusty road, misting the parched willows by the roadside, hazing the shabby squat farmhouses. 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Hors- es’ hoofs clopping up behind them, a wagon passing in a cloud of dust, a curious backward glance, or a greeting exchanged. One of the Ooms boys, or Jakob BOomsma. “You’re never going to mar- ket, Mis’ DeJong!” staring with china- blue eyes at her load. “Yes, I am, Mr. Boomsma.” “That ain’t work for a woman, Mis’ DeJong. You better stay home and let the men folks go.” Selina’s men folks looked up at her. “one with the asking eyes of a child, one with the trusting eyes of a dog. “My men folks are going,” answered Selina. But then, they had always thought her a little queer, so it didn’t matter much. She urged the horses on, refusing to confess to herself her dread of the destination which they were approach- ing. Lights now, in the houses along the way, and those houses closer to- gether. She wrapped the reins around the whip, and holding the sleeping boy with one hand reached beneath the seat with the other for the coat of sacking. This she placed around him snugly, folded an empty sack for a pil- low, and lifting the boy in her arms laid him gently on the lumpy bed form- ed by the bags of potatoes piled up just behind the seat in the back of the wagon. So the boy slept. Night had (301119. 011. The figure of the woman drooped a little now as the old wagon creaked on toward Chicago. A very small figure in the black dress and a shawl over her shoulders. She had taken off her old black felt hat. The breeze ruffled her hair that was fine and soft, and it made a little halo about the white face that gleamed almost luminously in the darkness as she turned it up toward the sky. “l’ll sleep out with Sobig in the wag- on. It won’t hurt either of us. It will be warm in town, there in the Hay« market. Twenty-five centswmaybe fifty for the two of us in the rooming house. Fifty cents just to sleep. It takes hours of work in the fields to make fifty cents.” She was sleepy now. The night air was deliciously soft and soothing. In her nostrils was the smell of the fields, of grass dew-wet, of damp dust, of cattle; the pungent prick of goldenrod, and occasionally a scented wave that meant wild phlox in a near-by 'ditch. She sniffed all this gratefully, her mind and body curiously alert to sounds, scents, forms even, in the dark- ness. She had suffered much in the past week; had eaten and slept but little. Had known terror, bewilder- ment, agony, shock. Now she was re- laxed, receptive, a little light-headed perhaps, what with under-feeding and tears and over-work. The racking proc- ess had cleared brain and bowels; had washed her spiritually clean; had quickened her perceptions abnormally. Now she was like a delicate and sensi- tive electric instrument keyed to re- ceive and Fegister; vibrating to every ether wave. She drove along in ,the dark, a dowdy farm woman in shapeless gar- ments; just a. bundle on the rickety seat of a decrepit~truck wagon. The boy‘slept on his hard lumpy bed like ,' Street, that was. a he was. The Llights went out. The houses were ' sluts in the black. The lights of the city came nearer. She was thinking clearly, if disconnectedly, without bit- terness, without reproach. “My father was wrong. He said that life was a great adventure—a fine show. He Said the more things that happen to you the richer you are, even if they’re not pleasant things. That’s living, he said. No matter what hap- so much—oh, yes—‘velvet.’ Just so much—what was the word he used?— so much—oh, yes—‘velvet’. Just so much velvet. Well, it isn’t true. He had brains, and charm, and knowledge and he died in a gambling house, shot while looking on at some one else who was to have been killed. . Now we’re on the cobblestones. Will Dirk wake up? My little So Big. . No, he’s asleep. Asleep on a pile of potato sacks because his mother thought that life was a grand adven- ture—~a fine show—and that you took it as it came. A lie! I’ve taken it as it came and made the best of it. That isn’t the way. You take the best, and make the most of it. .Thirty-fifth Another hour and a half to reach the Haymarket. . I’m not afraid. After all, you just sell your vegetables for what you can get. .VVell, it’s going to be different with him. I mustn’t call him Sobig any more. He doesn’t like it. Dirk. That’s a fine name. Dirk DeJong. . No drifting along for him. I’ll see that he starts with a plan, and follows it. He’ll have every chance, every chance. Too late for me, now, but he’ll be dif- ferent. Twenty—second Street ’1 weltl‘h. the people! I’m enjoying this. No use denying it. I’m enjoying this. Just as I enjoyed driving along with Klaas Pool that evening, years and years ago. Scared, but enjoying it. Perhaps I oughtn’t to be—b‘ut‘that’s hypocritical and sneaking. Why not, if I really do enjoy it! I’ll wake him. Dirk! Dirk, we’re almost there. Look at all the people, and the lights. We’re almost there.” The boy awoke, raised himself from his bed of sacking, looked about, blink- ed, sank back again and curled into a ball. “Don’t want to see the lights people .” He was asleep again. Selina. guided the horses skilfully through the down- town streets. She looked about with wide ambient eyes. Other wagons pass- ed her. There was a line of them ahead of her. The men looked at her curiously. They called to one another, and jerked a thumb in her direction, but she paid no heed. She decided, though, to have the boy on the seat beside her. They were within two blocks of the Haymarket, on Randolph Street. “Dirk! Come, now. Come up here with morher.” Grumbling, he climbed to the seat, yawned, smacked his lips, rubbed his knuckles into his eyes. “What are we here for?” “So we can sell the garden truck and earn money." “\Vhat for?" “To things.” “'l‘hatla ready.” send you to school to learn funny. l go to school al— “A different school. 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It was appropriate that the. first to Christ has done much for woman. From a. chattel of her husband she has become his equal. Three or four women thus came to the tomb while it was still dark; Through the dark, dirty, wind- ing streets of Jerusalem they made that timorous and hasty way. The act in itself was brave. Few women in an American city would care to walk through anypart of the city at that hour. They would not do it. un- less propelled by a great love. HESE women driven by such an affection. Who knows their in- most thoughts? Had they slept at all, since the trial? Had they had heated conversation with the eleven disciples, excoriating them for not standing up and defying the sanhedrin? Had they reproached themselves for not going to the governor and pleading with him? (There were one'or two women of influence and social station among them). Had they walked the floor through the hours of the night with weeping and wringing of hands? Had they accepted it with calm faith, look- ing to the Jehovah of their fathers for strength and hope? Had they chanted some of the psalms of comfort, and thus buoyed each Other up? On all this the evangelists are silent, and it is one of the master strokes of the gospels, indicating an inspiration above merely human composition. Who gave these writers who had never in their lives written a book, this wis- dom in the selection of material, this insight amounting 10 genius, as to what to put in and What to leave out? Imagine what a reporter of ihe asso- ciated press would have included. The writers of the New Testament show the inspiration of the Almighty Spirit by what they omit, as well as by What they include. lME was, when the Bible was thought a supernatural book with mysterious, unearthly powers. Pious folk used to put their finger on some passage with closed eyes, open them, see what the finger pointed to, and take that as a sign of what was about to happen. This was considered high- ly reverential to the Good Book, and those used it thus who were initiated into the secrets ot the Holy Spirit. But people do not do that now, at least not many people. The Romans used to kill an animal and examine its en- trails for tokens, as to whether they should enter upon a. war, or whether the religious should make a certain pilgrimage. But American farmers do no do that. Beef is too high! And if we used the same commonsense in reading Holy Writ that we do in read- ing other books it would'grow on us immensely. Let us not make the Bible Factory-MALDEN, MASS. say what it reallydoes not say, or do what it was not: intended for. .L i OurWeeééISemanfiBy N. AMchmr ' ' It .is impossible for. us * see the empty tomb were women.“ . before he thought. ERHAPS~ we have wandered. frOm ' the main trail a bit,sbut.swe can readily find our way back. The'women debuted how the" huge stone at the ‘mouth'rof the-sepulchre' was to be» re- mOVed.' -’ They did not knowgv brave souls, that‘others also were interested in - that“. boulder. . Strong ‘ and silent .. hands had removed it: This frightened them, and with that‘the- empty tomb— thls was a horror they had not antici- pated. They had to give vent to vio- lent emotion in‘ some way. They had to tell someone, immediately. They had made, a. discovery. They were the bearers of amazing tidings. They ran, ran as they never had run in their lives. John says that Mary ran to Simon Peter and told him. Matthew says that, having seen an angel, they ran with fear and great joy. Mark says they fled from the place, tremb- ling and amazed, and were afraid to speak of what they had Seen. The news quickly came to the two stalwarts of the band of twelve. Per- haps Simon should not be called a stal- wart, but we will take him for what he became later. Besides, he is so much like all the rest of us men that it doesn’t do to talk too harshly about him. Simon was a. big, blundering. well-intentioned male, who did not pur- pose any harm to anyone. He had one bad habit, that of talking and acting This habit will get anyone into trouble. Cure it, and half the trial ,dockets of the courts would be erased at one stroke. The two men have been doing a. lot of thinking, too. It would be safe to say that Simon Peter had done no sleeping since the fateful night of the trial. Those denials,‘that luck of the Lord, the'crowing cock, which all spell- ed out one word, as long as the Jordan river —— C-O-N~S-C-I-E—N—C-E! Wh at would he give to live over that Thurs- day night! ‘ \Vould he ever have an opportunity to make amends? He would have exclaimed with Lady Mac- beth, “Will all Neptune’s flood wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand would rather the multi- tudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” It is not surprising that in Mark’s gospel, which was prob- ably dictated to him largely by Peter, a. sentence is put in not found in any other gospel. “hen the women looked into the empty grave they saw a. young man there, clothed in white, and he asks the women to "tell his disciples and Peter,” that the risen Lord will meet them in Galilee. O I say that when the women met Peter and John that morning with the news that Christ had risen, they found two men who had been thinking, lung and hard. Very likely John had been comforting Peter, and assuring him that some way would be provided whereby he could live down that hor- rible, pusillanimous denial. The news was so sudden and overwhelming that the two weary men began to run. “They both ran together’L—but not for long. Soon one was playing Nurmi, and was far ahead. He arrived, stooped and looked, in. The other, true to his natural impulsive characteristics, stop- ped not to look in; he went in! Then the quieter, more meditative man also entered. Both came to the conclusion that the dead Christ had not been stol- en away, but that He had come back to life. We have not room to discuss why we believe this also, except to say, that the minute circumstantial account, giving many details in a. sim- ple way, compel the conclusion that it was written by an honest eye witness. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR MARCH 15. SUBJECT:-———Our Lord’s Resurrection. "John 20: 1 to 18. indeed. Lk. 24 3 EN ‘TEXTz—4The Lord is risen ,Mw-. _ .y’ o . >~mu A 4"- < fly / / =1 1“ y '7 mg... .9 Instant Fordson Belt Power! » SEASONS use pays a Smith Unit in tint; and ogozavebd. No' e‘ngo tractora t y Mane from field work to belt power at the flick of a lever. Positive—doesn’t change pulley speed - . 't throw oil -dustoproof. Shifted! Inner spiral bevel gear always in mesh. Live and idling members merely united b slidin sleeve when lever is move . No c asking. DALLMANN MACHINE st MFG. CO. om. 0.3 Winnebago 5:. MILWAUKEE. WIS. DAllMANN monucrs Sold Onlq Through Authorized Fordson Dealers .lL , Seals. : value of these things and hope that a. n,__ {D ependable (60Mi11ion Satisfied Customer?) Good Looking (Improved MoHeI- a handsome mud) Bzi g Va 111 e- (Kvu get the benefit of the saving from immense quantity'ptoductiwy 4., RURAL HEALTH By Dr. C. H. Lern'gv THREE GOOD THINGS—GRATIS. HE Michigan Tuberculosis Asso- ciation offers three good things to readers of this 'paper who subscribed to their sale of Christmas I know personally the genuine lot of you will take them. Free Chest Clinics are first and most important. If the people of your neigh- borhood want it, the Michigan Tuber- culosis Association will arrange such a clinic right in your community. Eve- ryone who has the least disturbance of the organs contained in the chest should find out ‘exactly what is the matter and have it corrected. This thing that you have called bronchitis may be something else. Perhaps the little cough that has annoyed you is serious. It is a splendid thing to have the chance that one of these clinics offers for a thorough examination by expert consultants. Summer camps may not seem so necessary to children who live on farms and get all the summer there is. But there’s a difference. Children who go to these summer camps find a train- ed nurse in charge. She sees that the under-nourished child gets exactly the right food, the nervous one the proper amount of rest, and yet that all get plenty of play. Summer camps are as good for farmer’s children as they are fer others. , The third project is the Open Air School. Perhaps the important thing about this kind of a school is that the children who are not up to standard physically come under the special care of the teacher, so that all stress and strain is taken from them and they do their school work without feeling the effort. They get extra nourishment, extra rest, extra care in every way. An ordinary schoolroom serves very well if the windows are kept Wide open and the teacher is especially con- siderate of the pupils. Remember that the tuberculous child should not be in school at all, and the Open Air School is simply for those whose health is such that they are not equal to the wear and tear. You are interested in one or all of these projects. \i'rite to the Michigan Tuberculosis Association, Lansing, Michigan, to find out how you may get . ’- c» 5‘3!“ 34>, 9 u THE YARD LONG BEAN ls'an ex- cellent variety _ns_ well as being an interesting curiosity. 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' .:=?.\ - sin/E346 513‘??? - .. .. 3 by all :- I” 1. a Emaim ' ' . m a... mall»; What’s in Your Front ardp A dd [Veto Plants T in Sprmg to Cover Back Fence and Mate Me Old Place Smile Y farm sisters, let us plan now to do a little bit, at least, to- ward beautifying our farm homes this present spring. I know, because I am a busy farmer’s wife, just how little time we have for such work, and how good a rocking chair looks if we have a'few spare mo- ments. But if necessary, leave win- dows! unwashed a week, and in that time‘plant something outside, worth ', while looking at through those win- dows when you wash them next week and the following weeks. Some Plants Will Need Little Care. Having a few flowers does not neces- sarily mean a lot of hard work. Many flowers thrive with little care, espe- cially hardy perennials. There are few floWers as cheery as the old—fashioned marigolds—one package of seed this year will mean flowers always, as they seed themselves and thrive, though neglected. Clarkia, a little-known but beautiful thing, germinates so easily and comes in beautiful pastel shades. Poppies, we all know, if once introduced into our garden, stay with us always. Cen- taurea, ramblers, Portulaca, nicotiana, Petunias and many others do likewise. Bird Houses Such as this on the Farm of E. Fischer, Bay City, Are an 0r- nament. Old fences and out buildings can be made things of beauty by planting vines which will cover them entirely in a short time. I plant grape vines, which helps to fill jelly glasses and cans of fruit for pie in the blustery winter days. Spired honeysuckles, snowballs, mock orange, and all kin- dred shrubs are easily grOWn and re- quire but little care. Add a Few Each Year. Just a few this year and a few next ,make such a vast difference in the “homey” appearance. In hardy plants we have peonies—how many times in a long deserted yard we still see this , old-fashioned plant holding its own. Hollyhocks are so satisfactory, try planting them by walls, they look so stately and tall. Iris greets us so early in the spring and comes in so many colors. Columbine is improved so much .» ‘1; beers little resemblance to what we had a, few’years back. Qu’eenly tiger Jillies'teach we farmers to hold our given to outside adornment. heads up and be doing the things nec- essary to put our business on a busi- ness basis. . » Woodlot Furnishes Many Plants. Our environment has much to do with our mental attitude, especially with our young people. They uncon- sciously draw comparisons between the average town yard and the average farm yard, and not complimentary to us always. Let us, my farm sisters, change all this in so far as we can. If money is scarce, the woods are filled with shrubs and vines. One of the handsomest yards in our country came entirely from the woods. The housewife, and she is a busy one A SINGLE grateful thought to- walds heaven is the most perfect prayer.——Lessing. both indoors and out, told me on wet spring and fall days for two years she persuaded the hired man to go with her and help dig, carry home and plant what was to be found in the woodlot near by. In driving by that place to— day you think of an old English estate and all because one little woman had the push and grit. Strangers judge of a community by outside appearance and nine times out of ten, if looking for a place to locate, choose a place where some thought is Talk this over with the “good man” and you .will find he is anxious to help you, if he is not—to be a true daughter of Eve—- make him think so.~A Farmer’s Wife. A LAUNDRY HELP. THIS homemade washing fluid will save rubbing on wash day: Mix one ounce of salts of tartar, one ounce of carbonate of ammonia, one can of commercial lye in one gallon of soft water. When washing add a half cake of laun- Put in a jug and keep corked.’ dry soap to water in boiler, and one. third cup of the fluid. When water is warm, put in the whitest of the cloth ing and boil five minutes. Remove to tub, rub inside of cuffs or such spots, as remain, rinse, blue, starch and they are ready to hang. Then take the next best clothing, and so on. This will not rot the clothing, makes them snow white, and does'not injure gar- ments like hard rubbing does. It is a great labor-saver in the laundry. A HANDFUL OF HOME HINTS. NEAT set of salt and pepper shak- ers for the kitchen cabinet were made from tall, empty talcum powder cans. They were enameled white and the words “salt” and “pepper” sten- ciled on with blue enamel. Spice box- es or shakers may also be made from the talcum powder boxes. Waxed flows are cleaned easiest with a sponge 01 cloth dipped in gas- oline. Wash and wipe thoroughly, (having all windows open at the timo and no fire around), then rewax and polish and they will look like new again. All bamboo fish poles may be sawed the required length, varnished and used as rods in the clothes closets on ~{which to. hang the clothes hangers. This prevents crowding and wrinkling of freshly ironed an. pressed garments and no garment conceals the others when (hanging up. Several small wooden paddles in the kitchen may be hbmemade and are ex- tremely useful to have about. I use one size to stir fruit butters that I am cooking. Another size to stir boiling mush, a smaller size to stir liquid soap that I am making from soap scraps and I also use a wooden paddle to stir lard when trying it out, and for various other purposes. The wooden paddles never scratch my aluminum utensils, the long handles never get hot, and I can stand farther away from the me, thus preventing burns 011 face, hands and arms. —-Mr's. G. S. Candy for the Kiddies HE child’s plea for candy is a problem for mother, who knows that “too much” brings the us- ual train of ills. To keep the child well without depriving him of sweets, the Wisconsin Department of Home Economics advise the use of candy substitutes. Dried fruits contain a large amount of sugar, and when combined with ground nuts they form very nutritious candy substitutes. Stuffed fruits, such as prunes, figs, dates and raisins may be used. If they are hard, they may be softened by steaming them over boiling water. Clean and stone the fruits and cut a small slit along one side through which the filling may be inserted. Cocoanut, chopped fruit, "’sz ’[ ée Katha-Minded UGENE DAVENPORT uses the term rural-minded to cover the process of thinking of that great class of people interested in the agricultural, social, and moral development of rural people. This is an admirable attitude of mind, but it conjures up the term kitchen—minded. That was our thought in mind recently upon visiting a home where the homemaker con~ fined herself too closely within thefour walls of her own kitchen. During the war when Heibert Hoover was making a study of the eco- nomic waste of our nation, he lound our greatest waste to be in human en- eigy, and estimated its value at $3, 000, 000, 000. This estimate is very indefi- nite, for human energy is not to be measured in dollars and cents. When we consider that this $3,000,000,000 might be saved if only proper methods, and labor—saving equipment were used, we are classing ourselves as spendthrifts of human energy. Recently I heard one housewife say, hands that soap and machinery will do.” “I never do anything with my This woman always has time for her family, takes an active part in social and community affairs, looks to her personal appearance and develops a real soul in her home. She gets more out of life than merely living. The more time one can devote to their family, the tighter the bonds of the home circle. When we permit our thoughts, our time, and energy to be expended in our kitchen, we are losing our opportunity to develop the soul of the home and to take our part in community activities. If we do not have association with the outside, we become atrophied and our thoughts short-circuited. We live in a mechanical age. There are numerous home conveniences and labor-saving devices for every room in the house. These can be obtainy ed at a moderate cost and a housewife owes it to herself as a. homemaker and manager, to supply that home with certain of these conveniences that best fits her needs. The development of the soul of the home is most essen-' tial, and unless mother’s time is liberated by the use of needed labor-saving devices and conveniences, she will become kitchen-minded and to the loss of her home and community ground nuts, marmalade, and marsh- mellow make a variety of fillings. The fruits may be rolled in granulated or confectioners’ sugar, or they may be glaced. The latter is done by dipping the fruit in a. sugar syrup made of two cups of sugar, one cup of water, and one-third teaspoon of cream of tartar which has been boiled without stirring, to 310 degrees Fahrenheit. At this temperature the syrup begins to dis— color. The fruits may be dipped into the syrup by means of a. steel skewer. Fruit Rolls Are Healthful. Fruit rolls are a very healthful food as well as a candy substitute. To make, run the cleaned and dried fruits through the food chopper. ~Prunes, raisins, apricots, figs, and dates may be used. Before molding the ground fruit into rolls, a little lemon or orange juice may be added. If the fruit will not bind together well, one or two tea- spoons of honey will help. Shape the fruit into rolls or small balls and roll in powdered sugar. Mothers have found that this mixture will keep for several days; and when given each day to the child, it has a direct. effect as a body regulator. Cookies for children may be made easily by spreading a plain filling be- tween two graham crackers or two an— imal cookies. For special occasions, animal cookies may be made to stand in the frosting of homemade round ginger or vanilla wafers. The animal cookies used may be purchased for a. small sum. Potato Soup. 1% cups mashed Domw $6, tsp. celery salt 2 th. butter 2-3 tb. chopped onion 2 tb. flour 1 qt. milk 2 tsp. salt 2 tsp. chopped parsley 1A tsp. pepper Scald the onion with the >milk in a double boiler for ten minutes. Make white sauce and add the sauce to the potato very slowly, stirring constantly. Add parsley just before serving. When_ washing windows, _wring a. chamois skin dry in clean water and wipe window. Then polish with a. cloth. —-Mrs. E. H \ . I?“ REEN is such an- easy color to 1eproduce in every detail, that the hostess who desires, to hon- 01, St. Patrick finds her task 'an easy one so far as the color note goes. The house should be brave in Ireland’s own color, the emerald green. Ferns, vines, green color bunting, me at the hos- tess’ disposal. The1e is a temptation to use flowers in a decorative scheme, especially in the Spring time, when all nature is roiting in color. St. Patrick’s Day is one of the occasions when flowers are not appropriate, rather, lvong, trailing vines fresh from nature are most graceful for bridging over bare stretches of wall and for gar- landing. The invitations of a Saint Patrick’s party should be written on green pa- ei, decorated with Shamrocks, which can easily be obtained. Clay pipes tied with bows of green satin ribbon and having the name of the guest painted on the bowl in green is a pret— ty idea and a pleasant variation, from the ever lasting shamrock. The centerpiece may be a large square of grass, fitted into as large a. glass dish partly covered with green crepe paper. Cut a five-inch hole in the center of grass and fill with water to representa pond. Have either a little man out out of pasteboard, or a small doll with costume appropriately colored and with pipe in mouth, fish- ing on the bank of the pond. Be sure to have a high crowned black hat tip- ped to one side of the head. A St. Patrick’s Menu. Olives Celery Small Pickles Cream of Green Pea Soup with Sham— rocks out from Green Cucumber Pickles Roast Chicken Cauliflower Croquettes Mashed Potato Sprinkled with Parsley Spinach Moulded into Moulds Lettuce and Cheese Salad Pistachio Ice Cream Small Cakes with Green Frosting Green Bonbons Pistachio Nut Meats To entertain the guests after dinner in a very amusing way, hide about a dozen small green shamrocks in cer- tain mems, described by the hostess. Ten minutes time should be given in which to locate them. The guest find- ing the most Shamrocks may be given any favorite green souvenir. But the real fun-comes to those who do not find any, by giving them the necessary cardboard, green ribbon, scissors and the necessary articles to make other shamrocks as gifts to all at the dinner. Cards may be played by the other guests during this time, and the Winners may be presented with suitable green gifts. A St. Patrick’s guessing game will also prove entertaining. l. A Pennsylvania town. 2. A Domestic Fruit—Green Gage Plum. 3. A Variety of Fruit———Greenings. 4. A Part of a House—Green Room. 5. A Famous Town in Kentucky— Do olw ing Green. C.old Country—«Greenland. .Western Bay—Green Bay. A Harmless Drink—Green Tea. A Kind of Tree~Evergreen. 10. A Place to Grow Flowers—Green— house. Town—Green- seem: USES OF ENAMEL. I HAVE saved many dollars this year by the use of white bathtub enamel. I used it first to paint the inside of an old leaky tin water pail, healing seven small holes. The finish was so smooth and hard I used it on my bread mixer pail which I had discarded, and I had a “nev'v”'bread' mixer again. . Then for fift‘ylce’nts I bought three tin lard oans 'with covers, one 100- pound size, and- two fifties, which I Decoratzom, Menu and Games that May Help You enameled/inside and out, which I have been offered $2.50 for. I use them for flour, bread and sugar. The water pail I spoke of has been used six months since I enameled it and is fine yet. When using a new can pour some kerosene on the surface of what you have left before closing, and it will keep soft. Pour it off before using next time. Common enamel is not as good as the hard bath tub enamel.»— Mrs. J. S. S VOTES FOR WATER SYSTEM. BELIEVE the majority of women living on farms will agree, that while there are dozens of conveniences, time savers, and labor eliminators for the home, that by installing a water system with proper drainage, more time can be saved and more down- right drudgery done away with, than could be accomplished by any one method. Think of the time and back-breaking energy expended between the pump and the kitchen table, to be followed by carrying all waste water still far~ ther away. What an exasperating way the water pail has of being empty when one is in a great hurry and fag- ged to the breaking point. What a safeguard to the health of the family and the improvement of conditions in the back yard, could be accomplished by the expenditure 'of a few dollars invested in drain-pipe, and a kitchen sink. A water system would lift a load of weariness off the shoulders of the busy housewife, that cannot be reckoned in dollars and cents——Mrs. C. F. P. HOW TO MAKE KNIT RUGS. AM knitting rugs and .have made a very serviceable one for the bath- room from the heavy mottled blue and brown work socks cut around and around. Cast on four stitches, widen one at each end until you have ten or twelve on the needle. Knit plain the length desired, then narrow one at the end each time until there are four stitches left, and bind off. The strips to go around this are knit plain with ten or twelve stitches on the needle and the first stitch on one side taken ofl each time without knitting, making it curve. The last strip is knit in points. Cast on four stitches and wid- en one each time until you have twelve, then narrow one each time un- til there are four again and repeat. On the side opposite the points the first stitch is taken 03 each time Without knitting.——Mrs. E. H. IS THE OVE'N TOO HOT? HE proper oven temperature is an important consideration in the suc- cessful preparation of food. Many a last minute failure in a carefully pre— pared recipe is due to too slow or too quick an oven. Oven temperatures for varoius foods suggested by the home economics department at South Dakota State College are as follows: Custards and meringues require a slow oven which ranges in tempera- ture from 250 to 300 degrees F. Sponge cake, angel cake, bread, ginger bread, plain cake and cookies are baked in a moderate oven with a temperature of from 350 to 400 degrees F. A hot or quick even, 400 to 450 de- grees F., is best for parker house rolls, pop-overs, baking powder biscuits and some quick breads. For biscuit and pastry, a very hot even of from 450 to 500 degrees is required. If you detect signs of ill health, have a health examination while it is not yet too late. Don’t allow yourself to run down—run up! family comfort and health. Pittsburgh $11112 dard” PHIMBING FIXTURES The Basis of Health Most welcome of all modern con- veniences ‘is that most desirable of personal comforts—a modern, sani- tary bathroom. It provides refreshing cleanliness after a day’s strenuous, dusty work in fields or barn. Properly equipped, it is now recog- 'nized as one of the greatest aids to day for our free book, ’fitandard" Plumbing Fixtures for the Home. Standard Sanitary 11m; 00. ..... 3 fig" . 1 \ .. .‘L .1...i\i\"~ '~ .. " s owe- — 1v. o 1‘11 3-113 1 1“. ‘1} Q. \‘ifi. {1 it 1 I ‘1 \ ‘ l J c 1 Q ta 1.:— . - 'hm _ Send to- insufla' 19313:! 1"“..2. -—uu - “tr-1:. T THIS NEW /L ON YOUR Album steel and wood mills are quiet and powerlul One- third (In work- in; part: of any other null. 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All general mops do well. truck and fruit crops make blg r1-t1111is.D:111_1ing p853 well on 11ino- months pasture and winnr foul crops Delightful I climate, mild winters pleasant s11n1m1rs,healthf11l 10- 111111111, pl1nt1 oi miniall l‘arms fox sale at low prices and easy terms. Profits from farm will pay for it in few )‘1’211‘3. ' Write to W. 16. Price. General Immigration Agent. 1, SOUTHERN RAILWAY. \Vushinmon, . .. Room " 650. for full information about How to Make Money on Southern Farms. “How to Obtain a Patent” and PAT EN 1' Write for my free Guide Books. "Invention and Industry” and "Record of Invention" blank before disclosing inven< tions. Send model or sketch of your invention (or in- struction. Promptness assured. No charge for above information. Clarence A. O’Brien. Registered Patent Lawyer. 659 Security Bank Building. directly across street from Patent Office. Washington, D. c. vines yr. No. -1 825 per 1Fruit trees small fruit:- and Send for free catalogue. FEATHER‘S NURSERIES. Baroda, Mleh. =7— - A» .1319“ — :2 " , 5-7225; .- -. . ,. «n... .:-. ... :3 , ._.‘ 7,” . ..-.«.«o4...up~‘ .m’ . .v<:,-.~s-m.w-,§g.e-s manurmxm 7 _, . . Aw,“ .4“; '31.: ,3 "1,17"... ,‘ - "A. ”5.3“ 5.1;; . ,. 7‘ , . _ ,1 ‘. Remember the good old-» fashioned mustard plaster ‘ Grandma used to pin around . your neck when you had a cold or a sore throat? It did the work, but my how it burned and blisteredl > . Musterole breaks up colds in a hurry, but it does its work more gently—without the blister. Rubbed over the throat or chest, it penetrates the skin with a tingling warmth that brings relief at once. . Made from pure oil of mustard, it is a clean, white ointment good for all the little household ills. . Keep the little white for of Musterole on your bathroom shelf and bring it out at the first sign of tonsillitis, eroup, neuritis, rheumatism or a cold. ToMothers: Mustero le is also made in milderfo rm for babies and small chil- dren. Ask for Children's Musterole. 35c and 65c jars and tubes; hospital size, $3. The Musterole Co., Cleveland, Ohio BITTER THAN A MUSTARD PLASTIB CHOICE STRAWBERRY Plants “31.11.15? ”.1133. Guaranteed first class, or money relunded. (Hatalog Mrs. Filena Woolf. Dept. G. Allegan, Michigan. STRAWBERRY PLANTS Raspberry, Blat-kbtrn leape et1.0rnamentals.Roses. Gladiolus. SthS. Guaranteed. Prire low. t‘atalog free. 1. N. ROKELY & SON. Rt. 6, Bridgman, Michigan. You Can Grow GIANT W A S H I N G T O N AS PARAG US Easily Easily grown. our Giant Roots planted this spring).r can be out next year Tender palatable from the purplish green tips to the ends of the gigantic stalks. _, 1 ast v c :,1r (viant Washington Aspar: 12m sold for $1511 dozen bum: hes in New Y or. . markets! No asparagus is easier to grow ‘ because itis rust- res1stant. Stalks l’ to ‘ in diameter. 8 stalks to the bunch. 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Agawa . Hurdles! kinds. Once planted and growing you won’t part with them for ten times their cost. Every home. if only a city lot, has room for them. Large amber-red berries on his bunches. Agawam Very sweet. Each 20c; 12. :1. 50; 100. $10.00 Best known grape. Sure to suceed. Fine Concord 10: grape juice 151- 12. :1..25 100. :11. oo. ' (White Concord). Best greenish white N1agara grape grown. Each 20c; 12.31.50; 100. :10. Large bl ck berries. Bunches biz. Extra worden early. haEI'dy. sweet. 20c: l2. 9.50; IOO. $l0. Strong, well-rooted vines Set of four best varieties ONLY soc Postpaid and Satisfaction Guaranteed 1hree sets ([2 Three Sets for $1 ,....., ,.... .0 one address (or 81. Save 501:. Get two neighbors to take one set each. from you. Free With Every Order lllustrnted Seed and Nursery Calalog and illustrated instructions tormakinu a beauliiul GRAPE ARBOR. The Terrapins-Bradley Co. 5766 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, Ohio Use this department to help solve your household problems. Address your letters to Martha Cole, Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich. RE-POTTING HOUSE, PLANTS. HOUSE plants such as geraniums. begonias, and fems need occa- sional re-potting. The top edge and bottom of the old ball of earth should be removed and fresh soil used in re- potting. Always place a piece of brok- en pot in the bottom to aid in drain- age. Do not fill the pot to more than a. quarter of an inch from the top. WHITE FLIES ON GERANIUMS. Would like to know what I can do for pests that are bothering my house plants, especially geraniums and De tunias. They collect on the joints of the stems. Look like tiny white eggs and upon being crushed contain in- sects that look like tiny red spiders. In a. short time the stem lots off at these places and finally the plant dies. ~Mrs. F. P. L. The insects troubling the geraniums and petunias are white flies. The little fly prefers the new tender ’growth at the tip of the plant Where it remains feeding in one spot for days. “Then the female is ready to lay her eggs she sticks her beak down into the tissue of the leaf and using this for a pivot, swings around in a, circle and deposits her eggs. There are about twenty eggs in each group. If the leaf withers and dies the eggs perish along with the food plant. The eggs and the nymphs ale ver The nymphs small and inconspicuous. on hatching crawl a. short distance and settle down to feed, where they be- come practically stationary. White flies are difficult to control- because the immature stage is encased in a double chitenous coat, for a. good percentage of its existence, and the adults take wing quite readily when disturbed. The fine meal-like growth on their bodies prevents water from penetrating to the insect Itself, or con- tact insecticides from being really as effective as we could desire; In a house the most practical way of handling the [situation is to dip the plant in soap suds, swishing it back and forth to get rid of as many adults and nymphs as possible. The plants should be rinsed in lukewarm water after this process, and in order to be effective the plant should be dipped every other day for some three or four days. Of course, flowering plants can not be dipped or treated in this way.— E. McDaniels, M. A. C. FILLING FOR SANDWICHES. I HAVE used this sandwich dressing for the past three years, and many tell me it can’t be beaten. 15 cup peanuts 1 red pepper or to suit 1,1, (-111) walnut meats taste ' 1 med. sized onion Enough mustard to 2 sour pickles make thin enough to 1 tb. cream spread Chop nut meats which have been shelled and the brown hull removed and onion and pickle very fine. Also ”red pepper. Mix with mustard or may- onnaise. This is especially good on cold roast meats—Mrs. T. W. R. Doings in E must help W'illie \Voodchuck today,” said Bruin to Rolly Rab- bit, one morning. “Yes, today is to be the wood party,” said Rolly, “Brownie will keep house alone today.” “Be a. good little bear and perhaps Sandy Squirrel will come over and play with you,” said Bruin as he and Rolly Rabbit went away. Now, Brownie tried his best to be a. good little bear for he was very glad to have his home with Bruin and R01— “Let Me See Your Tongue,” said Bruin. 1y, since the hunter had taken his mother away. In the morning, he dust- ed the house, and then played with the little snow birds that hopped upon the window sill. He would have liked to talk to them but he could not un- derstand the “chirp-chirp” of their bird language any more than the little birds could understand his animal lan- guage. At noon time he spread a. lunch of crumbs upon the window sill for them. Now here was when the trouble be- gan. Brownie ate his usual lunch of porridge, but he was still hungry. He wanted a sugar cookie. Yes, sir, that was just what he wanted. One, he Woodland Brownie and [/16 Sugar Coo/ale: thought, would be quite enough. But after he found one it wasn’t enough. He tried another. Strange that tasted like more, too. “Perhaps some blackberry jam would make it taste better,”. he said. The blackberry jam did make it taste better, so much better that Brownie ate three more sugar cookies with blackberry jam. The only reason he did not eat more cookies was be- cause there wasn’t any more in the cookie jar. About the middle of the afternoon when the little Brown Bear was play- ing with his little wagon he had a. pain in his tummy. “Oh, dearie me,” said Brownie, but before he had hardly said it there was another pain in his tummy. “I wish I hadn’t eaten so many sug- ar cookies and jam,” said Brownie, for by this time there was one, two, three, four, five, six pains, in fact, so many he couldn’t count them. So When Bruin and Rolly came home the little Brown Bear was lying across the chair, his tummy ached so hard. “Let me see your tongue,” said Bruin as soon as he and Rolly were home. It was not as pink as the first blos- soms on the peach tree, oh, no, it was very white, indeed. “And what is the reason?” asked Bruin when Brownie had told them about it. “Did you eat too many sugar cookies or too much jam?” “I guess it was both,” said the Little Brown Bear. .So they put him to bed and Dr. Fox came and gave him some very bitter medicine and Brownie didn’t want any more sugar cookies for a. long time. " sizes. .,8 10,12 and 14 years. Sp; mg Clot/its); No 5023—Glrls' Dress. Cut in four A 1.2-year size requires 3% yards of 40-inch ma. Price 12c terlaI. No. 5025—Girls’ Dress. Cut in four sizes, 6, 8,10 and 12 years. A 10-year size requires 2% yards of 36—inch ma- terial if made of one material. It made with short sleeves 93 yard less is re- quired. Price 12c. No. 4855—Child’s Dress. Cut In four sizes, 2,4, 6 and 8 years. A four-year size requires 2% yards of one mate- rial 36 inches wide. Price 120. No. 5028-—Girls’ Coat. Cut in four sizes, 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. A six-year size requires 2% yards of 40-inch ma.- te1ial. Collar and cuffs of contrasting requires 1%; yard. Price 12c. \ No. 5619—Ladies’ House Dress. Cut in six sizes, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. If made as illus- trated it requires 51,42 yards of 27-mch plaid gingham, and 34 yard of linen or percale for pockets, collar and and facings. The width at the foot is 11/2 yards, with plaits extended. Price 120. No. 5022—Juniors’ and Misses’ Dress. Cut in four sizes, 14, 16,18 and 20 years. If made as illustrated in the 13.1 ge view for a. 16 year size, it will re- quire 11/3 yazds of plain material and 27/8 yalds of figured, 32 inches wide. If made with long sleeves 1% yards of the plain material is required. If the godet is made of contrasting material it. will require 1/é yard cut crosswise. Price 12c. Cut in 3 An 18-year No. 4985'—Misses’ Dress. sizes, 16, 18 and 20 years. size requires 45/8 yards of 40-inch ma- terial if made with long sleeves. VVlth- out sleeves 41/8 yards are required. The width of the dress at the foot is 1% yards. Price 120 No. 4589—Ladies’ Dress.“ Cut in 71 sizes, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48..inch- es bust measure. A 38-inch size re- quires 5% yards of 40-inch material. The width at the foot is 3% yardl. Price 120.1 i ! 1 7" v- ynam. vp.“< w» 1,70% - .. A.»-n4~u-.,_. -M. I a m- ._I. QM“... M - ( V'M-w . mm» 04‘s . a. .. ..... .w..v~...«...,-..t. -~.W. Mm: c i g COLLIS PROCESS Pure Dried lltwecks correct Feed! WI" Reduce This one - Not ourword alone. but the authentic reports of govern- ment experimental stations. roves conclusively that ollis Process Pure Dried . Buttermilk in starting mash .Bnne gives the baby chicks‘ just SAVES what they need for a well BABY CHICKS balanced ration. Keep Your . Poultry Healthy ‘ The germ of owlcholera and fowl typhmd cannot exist in the Lactic Acrd content of Collis Process Pure Dried Buttermilk. Don't raise baby chicks without it being part of the ration. ”(Viv "" .. 'l ' 1 Just pure milk solids with lac- tic aeld. 2 Its lactic acid contentkilll dis- ease ucing _ a of the ' cluek'e internal organs. Sn l'elfood 8 eleprffelnta for bone. tissue and - tea re. Sanitar .No 4 dirty mall- to 3 r .. , 1 r , n“ ‘W Our illustrated I cause disease. 1.. ' All feed "I g booklet "Feed from the 5 fresh butter-gilt Egg to the Market' ’contains is retained in Collie Process Pure Dried But- termi . valuable information of in— terest to all poultry raisers. It is free; write for it today, givmg the name of your poultry feed dealer. Coma Process Pure Dried Buttermilk Packed in_ 8%—25——-50-—100 lbs. Sold by most . dealers—1f yours cannot supply you, write direct. i, COLLIS PRODUCTS COMPANY E General 081cc. Clinton. 1a., Dept. 295 : .. . a: -w E H N COLONY BROODEH The Mother Hen, Plus Capacity —with a constancy of care and smglcness of purpose that hen nature does x: 1 Write for not give. l Catalog Practical poultrymen favor and use“ the Blue Hen because its’ dependable. automatic control and economical. labor-Saving , . stove enable it to raise healthier vhicks with less ’ expense. , .0 " ‘7? $26.00\ Larger 8r. Heavier Men-city ‘ 1,5,“). looo dummy “1 Cheaper—a (delivered) NH (delivered) - . My?" ’. 7‘.— 20% extra value , ;. - fi!,,"§;|§;h-.|.g§ . Quantity pro- . . ‘ 'Z'Illlgli}, ‘ ;. ' duction. due to boosting of sat— ‘ isded customers. makes possible these low prices. , , . , an'te for BLUE HEN BOOK of FACTS today Lancaster "Ii. 00. mm Janet St. Lancaster, Pa. 1913 CHAR GOAL OOARSEnMEDIUMnFINE From best hard woods. In 50-lb. paper lined burlap bag. Glad to send samples and prices. Nothing better for chicks. ”IEITED FUEI. stASUPPLY @_‘. Free Press Bldg" Detroit, Mich"! WV?" W" HIGH GHADE smcl .— refill” n PRICES YOU ~i::’;‘l§5€i§i§f§i' Can Afford l0 Pay. Bred for eggs. not for show feathers. Every chick from our farm is of a brown egg-laying strain. But they win beauty prizes also. Barron White Leghoms, Aristocrat Barred Rooks, Brown Leghorns. ORDER FROM THESE PRICES. GRADE AA. 50 100 500 1000 ............... $8.50 $16 $75 $145 Barred Roi-ks. l ‘ l White Leghorns l'edigreed Males. Aristm-rat Strain ............ 0.50 18 85 105 Br. Leghorns ................. 8.50 16 75 145 GRADE A \Vhite Leghorns ............... $7.00 $13 $02 $120 Barred Rocks .................. 8.00 15 72 140 Br. Leghorns .................. 7 00 13 0‘2 120 100% Live Delivery. GREAT NORTHERN HATCHERY. R. 3. Box 56. Zeeland. Mich. «mt-es»: Profit Mg Producing 33. g "I/"sf Baby Cluck: § D 95.x,» ‘ mesa ,, Tailored and Barron W. Leghorns. S. C. R. I. Reds Parks’ Barred Rocks. High quality. low in cost. Satisfaction and 100% live delivery guaranteed. Big illustrated catalog free. Brummer-Frederickson Poultry Farm - Box 20. Holland. Mlch. WHl'lTAKER’S TRAPNESTED REDS Both .Combs. Mtchlsan's Greatest Color and En ' Strain. Chicks and Eggs from Vigorous. Hardy Stock. 16th Ann usl Catalog is yours for the asking. Write for a. [NTERLAKES FARM, 30x39. Lawrence. Mich. 1.3 , the best producing birds. E have a-flockrofbarnyard be... we keep the same for profit, a1- though it’s true that on the whole, we . get darn little of it. The slogan, “Swat the Rooster}: is often seen and heard, but still I keep among the flock that ornamental bird. They tell me that in- fertile eggs would sell and keep much better, that I should rise and execute the old go-getter. They say he never earned his keep; though I admit he hasn’t, I love to see him play the part I’d like to play and dasn’t. Would I might be another such emancipated sire, and never roll the ash cans out nor stock the furnace fire. Before the down he bats his eyes; he crows both long and deep to tell the hens it’s time to rise, while he goes back to sleep. He disciplines the growing chicks, his children and ,the neighbors’. They nev- er sass him when he speaks the way Jim does, by Jabers. If I should try to boss my wife, most sadly I would rue it, but he can keep a. dozen meek —by gosh, how does he do it? I’ll tell you why I keep the bird, you must admit I’m foxy, for when I see him crow and strut, I rule the roost by proxy—Bob Adams. POULTRY NOTES. HE hatcheries have helped in the 1. establishment of standard breeds. The White Leghorns predominate and compose nine-tenths of the poultry in Ottawa county. The hatcheries cull the flocks that furnish them with eggs. One hatchery owner has sixty flocks under his control and furnishes the male birds. The hatcheries furnish in- structions on feeding to obtain high hatchability and pay ten to twelve cents per dozen above the market price for the eggs. They are constant- ly working to obtain better stock and the Winning pen at last year’s laying contest was bought by an Ottawa coun- ty hatchery. They are making efforts to eliminate disease and also trapnesting to locate Records will be kept on the cost of raising chicks to November 1, as at present many breeders underestimate the cost of raising the young stock. Keeping rec- ords helps to locate losses so the sit- uation can be remedied during the fol- lowing year. Egg storage houses are needed to care for the surplus of low—priced spring eggs. More early hatching is "needed to produce high—priced fall eggs. A county egg laying contest is needed to obtain official records from a large number of local birds. Only a limited number of pens can be entered in a state contest for any one locality. The production of infertile eggs is increasing in Ottawa county during the season when they are not needed for hatching. Grading and proper packing of the eggs is helping to increase the ireturns from sales. Marketing the birds over a longer period helps to pre— vent the fall glut that sends so much ipoultry meat into cold storage. Pos- sibly starting some of the culling in July instead of August will extend the season for marketing poultry meat and help to bring better prices. In Ottawa county 3. lot of poultry is grown under peach trees. The birds eat the insects and help cultivate the ground. They also do it with apples but it does not work with cherries. PLANT TREES FOR POULTRY. It is not too early to order fruit trees for use on the poultry farm. They furnish necessary shade and of- ten produce fruit of considerable qual- ity with less spraying than is needed in the commercial orchard. Large ap- ple trees are quite an asset on the range of the young stock. They fur- nish fine fresh air roosting places un~ til time to place the pullets in the lay- ing houses. So we those ch 22.4125 There is now no question as to the almost miraculous effect of Ful—OvPep Chick Starter in saving chick lives Feed Ful-O—Pep Chick Starter first six weeks for strong bones and swift growth Feed Ful-O-Pep Fine Chick Feed from second to sixth week Feed Ful-O-Pep Growing Mash from sixth Week throu gh five months Feed Ful-O-Pep Coarse Chick Feed from the sixth week to the fifth month Begin feeding Ful- O-Pep Egg Mash , at fifth month and feed all year round Feed Ful-O-Pep Scratch Grains from sixth' monthon —one quart per day to each twelve birds The terrific loss suffered by farmers and poultrymen through the high mortality of young chicks is no longer necessary. The effectiveness of nutritious oatmeal mixed with cod liver oil as in Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter, in preserving life and promoting growth, is now established. Its results are in evidence on thousands of farms, where these losses have been wiped out. No other factor has ever brought into the poultry indus- try such sound protection to the farmer’s and the poultry- man’s investment. Six Solid Weeks of Sunshine Sunshine, as every poultry raiser knows, is absolutely vital to the life, strength and growth of young chicks. Dark, cold, raw and rainy days all have their ravishing, death-dealing effects on young broods. Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter feeds the sunshine right into bones and tissues, every day, rain or shine—building strong legs, strong bones, and the rapidity of growth is amazing. Chicks grow indoors as well as out. Feeding Ful-O-Pep Chick Starter the first six weeks of life is just like six straight weeks of uninterrupted sunshine. Read what this user of Ful—O—Pep Chick Starter says ’ Gentlemen: March 31, 1924 Always having trouble with leg weakness in raising Baby Chicks in winter time, I was looking for a Chick Starter this season that would keep the chicks on their feet. Seeing your advertisement on FU L-O- PEP claiming something I was looking for-I decided to try it out. I started three pens, three hundred chicks each, on February 12th. One pen on PUL-O-PEP and the other two pens on two other different feeds. All three pens came along nicely until about ten days, when the two pens fed other than I‘UL-fLPEl’ started to go off their feet. The FUL-O-PEP pen came along Without showing any signs whatever of leg weakness: so I then changed all three pens on to FUL-O-PEP and I noticed a great improvement shortly afterwards. Out of 3.000 chicks raised on FUL-O-PFPI saw absolutely no signs of leg weakness and they were indoors for one month. My mortality was not more than 1%. So far I have hatched out and sold about l2.000 chicks which were all started on FUL-O-PEP. _ My mortality informer years has been about 20,”; through leg weakness In early chicks. I‘he‘difference in mortality this season against former seasons Will make a bug difference in figuring the yearly profits. ‘Vould .highly recommend anyone raising chicks to use FUL-O-PEP— as I constder it a wonderful feed. Frank L. Simpson. Reading, Bless. In most sections of the country the best dealer carries the Ful-O-Pep line. If yours does not now sell Ful-O—Pep add his name when you mail us the coupon below. The Quaker-Oats Company Chicago, U. S. A. FREE —Ful-OvPep Poultry and Record Book Containing 5 2 pages of authoritative_instructi0ns on poultry raising and all the essential points contained in our famous correspondence on map STARTER CHICK ——_———-r’————_—————_ F; be Quaker Oats Company. 41 Railway Exchange, Chicago. I Please send me. without obligation, your complete new Ful-O~Pep Poul- try Book. Name Address I My Dealer's Name .r vamr.flx;.::$wsih;m' it“ .wvcmr- ‘ ‘Wu‘mmtflymv .mc- c793." . W . 39“ ‘u mevm-mow howls-arm - unteed. - The Big;D by males out of sired by a male very reasonable. satisfaction. ping chicks. Frill-I rr-t DOCK"! BRED FOR SIZE, TYPE and EGGS SINCE 1910. H. P. WIERE Combs, That roduce the Large White Eggs. The chicks we offer you this year are In.- extra selected hens. sired eel " Biodiec‘l‘Hen's- with thOLorge' hens that laid 270 eggs in 866 days these males being from a 300-egg hen. ' The price asked for them is They will bring you bigger profits and‘ absolute ‘You will be benefltted by our 15 years experience hatching and ship- Our stack grows up uniform in size. has great vitality and brings big returns in our customers' hands. catalog with prices. miss WEEKS OLD PULLETS IN MAY. ' — WOLVERINE HATCHERY Let us mail you our 100% live arrival guaranteed. MA, Prop. R.R. 2, Box 97 Iceland, Mich. (Continued from page-,'.34§).; being made particularly ’to the- amount carbohydrates and fat supply the pow- Of proteins, the material With which growth and functioning of theori- P-U-R-E B-R-E-D C’H'l‘C'K'S varieties: (S. C. ORCAS, BARRED ROCKS). We have been the business year after year with our thous request. American Chick We guarantee High Quality and 100% I00 PER GEII'I' ARRIVAL III GOOD HEALTH Catalog giving full particulars and quoting our low prices In detail mailed free on From carefully selected, bred—to-lay. high producing strains in the following lead WHITE AND BROWN LEGHORNS. ANCONAS. BLACK MIN- many years and our experience enables us to produce Chicks for you that will prove entirely satisfactory to you, just asthey have proven ands of old customers. Sale Arrival Postpaid. We also guarantee Farm, Box 115-D Zeeiand, Mich. Homer Hatchery Chicks From healthy frcc range flocks culled and mated with cookercls purchased direct from breeders who have a reputation for high egg making flOcks. Shipped Parcel Post prcpaid; 100% you. inite for catalogue and prices. production and color, assuring you strong healthy chicks that grow into money live delivery guaranteed. A trial order will convince HOMER HATCHERY, HOMER, MICH. First Ave.Hatchery Chicks from heavy laying strain, S. C. White Lez- horn. mated with Eckard (‘Ockcrcls from M. A. C. Also chicks from old hens, fine birds, culled stock. If chicks wantcd don't delay. Orders are coming. Send for price list and order Early. FIRST AVE. HATCHERY Holland Mich. CHICKS WITH PEP Ohio Accredited. Every bird passed by inspector trained and authorized by the Poultry Department Ohio State Unhersity. Prize winners at many shows from National down. Developed for high egg production for many years. Free range flocks In 1.3km; of health. $100670 live delivery. \'-' Thirteen breeds. Catalog free. Prices low, quality considered. Holoate Chick Hatchery, Box BM, Holgate. Ohio Pure Bred Baby Chicks Developed for high egg production for years. 100% live dclncry guaranteed. Postage paid to your door. 50 100 500 1000 White Leghorns. . . .$Ii.00 $12.00 8. C. $57.50 $140 fielected it. I. Rods and Barred Rocks 15.00 72.00 160 .......... 8.00 Free Circular. Bank Rci‘crcnco. THE A. D. RICHARDSON HATCHERY, DUNDEE, MICHIGAN. BOX A. W. LEGHORN.-BLACK MINORCA- ANCONA Official International Egg Contest Record: up to 254 East. Few can equal our PRICES. No one can bcat our QUALITY. Before ordering your 1025 chicks Send for our CATALOG. 0111‘ LO\V PRICES will astonish you. ()ycr 20 years experience assures your . satisfaction. Established Sent by PARCEL POST PREPAID., in l904 I008.) Live Delivery Guaranteed. l PINE BAY POULTRY FARM, Holland, Michigan. SEND IIO MONEYni'iYIE'ICHICIIS Just mail your order, we ship C. O. D. and guaran- tee prepaid l00% live delivery of sturdy. purebred chicks from healthy, bred-to-Iay flocks. Wh. Br. Bull Leghorns, 13c; Bd. Rocks, S. C. Rcds, 14c: “’11. ks, 14c; Bufl' Rocks, Bud ()rps., Wh. Wyand., 10c; ixcd, 10c; lllk. Minorcas. 15c. silver Lake Egg Farm, Box M, Silver Lake, Ind. BABY CHICKS F33: S. 0. WHITE LEGHORNS Every bird in our flock is trapncstcd every day in the year. If you want to secure Baby Chicks at area- sonable price from high record stow-k. do not fail to send for our catalogue. STRICK POULTRY FARM, B. 4, Box M. Hudsonville, Much. QUALITY CHICKS Puro Brod Tom Barron English '8. U. White Leghorns. From healthy, winterinylnp, free range, Hoganized flocks. Postpaid. Live De- , livery guaranteed. Get our low prices before ' you buy. Write for prices and Iron catalog. “to IluII Hatchery. Holland, "lob. Home No. I , CHICKS Barred Rock, Eckhard Strain. White Leghorn ‘ and Brown chhorns. Guarantee full 100% alive. Free Delivery. HILLVIEW POUL- TRY &. HATCHERY, C. BOVEN, Prop" R. i2-B, HOLLAND MICHIGAN. Favorite Breeds---Famous Strains Exhibition and Utility Prize Winning blood. from healthy, expert. culled flocks. W. Loghorns, Anconas, W, and B. Rocks, R. I. Reds. and W. Wyandottes. . Free chicks with advance orders. Guar- .Catalog. HAIOHT .HATCHERY, .Cedar springs. Mich. CHICKS FROM REAL BARRON Sin 9 l e C O m b White Leghorns START RIGHT Your future success depends on your foundation start. Start with OTTAWA stock, chicks. or eggs. Then you will have laycrs that will give you the largest pro- duction. Write for your copy of our valuable catalog and price list. Ottawa Hatchery & Poultry Farm, R. IO, HOLLAND, MICH. Husky LvabIe Chaps If you want healthy. vigorous. pure- ' ' bred chicks from flecks care-fully se- lected and tested for heavy laying and standard qualifications typical of the variety Ihcy represent, chicks that will mature quickly and improve your fleck, then you want “SUNNYBROOK” chicks. We specialize in S. I‘. W. chhoms, $13 per 100; liarrcd Rocks, $15 per 100: llhndo Island Beds. 310 pcr 100; and White \Vyandottts. $18 per 100. In lots of 500 or more 50c per 100 less. 100% live delivery guaranteed. Postage paid. Catalog free. SUNNY BROOK POULTRY FARM, HILLSDALE, MICHIGAN. 1,, Barron White or R a“ |NSPECTION .. Leghorns ’ l 5 “/1 Anconasa Mll- White s32; yaw???” 1 it" JUM' Wyandottes Fancy Stock at Right Prices ganism. These organic factors alone will not support life. Inorganic material, or that which is commonly spoken of as the minerals, is absolutely necessary, both as building tissues in the case of bones which need large amounts Of the elements calcium and phosphorous, and as regulating factors in maintain- ing the proper concentration of the tissue fluids and of blood. Adequate Ration Necessary. The blood of birds may be called the richest blood in the animal kingdom, for it seems to have more red blood corpuscles per ounce than in any oth- er animal. This corresponds to their intensity of life. In addition to the organic factors and mineral substances, an adequate ration for chicks requires accessory food factors termed vitamines. The vitamines may be considered of per- haps greater importance than other food factors because they are found in such exceedingly small amounts, even in our richest sources of natural foodstuffs. Unless the required amount of vita.- mines is supplied daily in the ration of chicks, there is great. danger that the bird will break down and that nu- tritional diseases, together with dis- eases of bacterial origin which are so often found associated with vitamine deficiencies, will develop. Vitamines are much like electricity; that can be felt but are not seen. Their important function in nutrition is to excite chemical reactions, the same as the spark ignites the mixture of gaso- line vapor and air in the motor. The thing, however, that interests the poultryman is that they are neces- sary for the normal growth and devel- opment of chicks, and if supplied in proper quantities nutritional disturb- ances can be avoided in early hatched chicks artificially brooded under con- finement, The chick receives from the egg enough Of the needed vitamine to car- ry bone growth to a certain size and then if more is not supplied in the ra- exercis'e and regular daily "attention.” Not so long ago, the term “balanced . rations” was referred to, in the feeding. 7 ‘ of all types of live stock. References 111' of protein, carbohydrates "and fat ~sup-._ plied in the daily ration. The protein,'_ er or potential energy; and in the case ’ to repair wornout parts, incident to‘ um: TIMI-.3; YEW beforo‘you of. noubo' ' .1. “(pram h'I'Iitweefll '5‘ livery.“ :Iolnt' " In: "Econ. I: ~ ’plneuboooru and Bud-e , IF NOT ; SATISH ED MOE — 13.8 . with Hot Wm luck. $13.25 260 Eli—$23.53; with not Wm M. 30.76 Click cam Broodm- .oa 'ck Canopy Broader. sums mm "mascara: ed t. , 4- Burns any fuel- -costs less This brooder raises more and better chiohatlow- ”t “:2?“ 8??“ “will; files?" 2215‘; regs mg— :3 In wor o urns coal better than any other brooder. Abo burns hard coal, wood, etc. Automatic regulator main- tain uniform heat night and day. Canopy spreads beet evenly over chicks—plenty of air Backed by Syws'suoeem. sgoat}: Chick aw.:§1.m 3 ve me on sen REE with grander. Fm ' E. of Rockies. Older E9g/ncubarbr$ 30 Dogs Trial Fret ht aid unto! the ~ . Rockgies otwater ' pertanks—double well Mr space—double glass doors . - - - —n real bargain at $8.5. Shipped complete, set up ready to use. - 140 Egg Incubator and broodol' - 817.75 132-5 : 180 Egg Incubator Alone - - - 15.75 180 Egg Incubator and Broodor - 22.00 250 Egglnoubotor Alone - - - 22.75 250 Egg Incubator and Broader - 31.00 340 Egg Incubator Alone - - - 30.75 30 days trial—money back if not pleased. If not mady to order now, don’t buy until you get our 1926 catalog which shows larger sizes up to 1000 eggs. ( MSGOISII Mill WI 00. 0325,1333: ’2125 14o Egg Incubator 33o Egg .0 Eu Ineulfrator?! 1695: Hot Wabtar, Eifickgizrsb illigl'ciii’cfi: 5 .9'5 23335 Hohwa roodor. ave I .98-order 140 Slzo Incubator and render. $19.95 lagslzolnonbotorond Duodenal“ a.“ 0 Size Incubator and Broader, $15.05 . ummkiéu. 95 _ Belle cm Incubator 0o. Box M RoolnoWllo. tion, nutritional disturbances soon be- come evident. The first signs of faulty White Leghorns (270-300 ancestry) ...... “3.50 her too Sheppard Anconas (300-egg strain).... l3.50 per loo White Wyandotten (Evergreen strain).. I .00 per “)0 Odds and ends. broiler: ................. I .00 per 00l Shipped by parcel poet. Safe arrival guaranteed. ‘ RELIABLE POULTRY FARM, Zeeiand, Mich., R. l, Box 47. Highland Leghorns Tancrcd—Ilollywood—Barron Sircd S. C. W. Leghorn chicks. Bl‘l‘d to lay stovk. All free range. Early maturing. Best winter layers. Selected 100, $13; 500, $62.50; 1.000, $120. Selected Star A 100, $15; 500, $72.50: 1,000, $140. Postpaid. Full live arriyal guar- antecd. Illustrated catalog free. Highland Poultry Farm R. 9, Box c, HOLLAND, MICH. Barred Rock Baby Chicks We hatch only Barred Rock Chicks from choice selected stock shipped by pre- paid parcel post to your door, satisfac- tion and a live delivery guaranteed. CIRCULAR ON REQUEST RTHE KAZOO HATCHERY C0. . 3 Kalamazoo, Mich. SUPREME CIIICIIS LAYERSI. That's what you want. Standard Chicks are from Just that kind of. flocks. Our strum of Supreme Loy- In. white Leghorno is the result of our many yearsexpenence, brooding om: niooiion. They are largo “ratios: deep wed e shaped bodies, keen :1 eyes, large lop d combs. ho klnd you will hoproud ii. and eventut 1y, hula;i Séiistig‘ed paelgpalén t1 30.2.1.1“ do- very guaran ee . us a on g . STANDARD HATGNIRV. loll. look-II. “lot. nutrition appear when the chicks are about ten' days old, in the form of droopy wings, ruffled feathers, stiffen- ed joints and indications of leg weak- ness or rickets. The legs become dry, withered and paralyzed, and do not have that plump, round, oily appear— Detroit- 140 - EGG Alliance ENCUBATOR CAPACITY Has all the features that insure big hatches— double walls, copper tank, complete nurse , gerfect heat control through automatic :3.) urner, “Tycos” thermometer . held so chicks can’t break It when hatching. Detroit Brood- oro. too. Writ. for low combi- nation price todayl . Detroit-Aulanco Incubator Co. - Dept. 11 . ' Alliance, Ohio ”M‘s... .-. ._ ance of the healthy, rapidly growing chick. If this condition is experienced, the chicks should be encouraged to take as much outdoor exercise as pos- sible, as sunshine will in itself some- times correct these conditions. Quick- er and more certain results will usu- ally attend the feeding of cod-liver Oil and supplying a liberal variety of green food and milk. Cod-liver Oil for Chicks. Cod-liver oil is especially valuable in correcting these troubles and can be fed at therate of one-half pint daily to each 500 chicks until they show well advanced recovery. In order to get the proper distribution to all the chicks, it can be emulsified with to- mato juice, giving a largerquantity of liquid with which to moisten a mash. The tomato juice is an excellent rap 1 you would have to pa many do or. nlread requested. or seed store in your town, or load stem We are listing 12 varieties of .Pure Blood Fem range stock. for price list. FARMS, Wilmington, Ohio. ,7 I DO you know that worms in chickens cause much of the sickness and losses? Do you know how In when wormy? Do you know how to remedy Worm tronb es? How to avord them? Readtha new, free (image book by Geo. H. Lee, in- ventorof G RMOZONE, the fame remedy for map, diarrhea, etc. . Te 9 aka abiliut ‘be importingtmnl‘obleo and diagram on o on u o n o y 9 try Ii hogs—illion tea ng are! m tone nowi‘matthtgleadi D ago. H. LEE 60.. Dept. 105, Omaha, Neb. English Producer White Leghorn: Luger size 5—1b. hens. The kind for farmers and egg producers. Strong husky chicks our specialty. $15 per 100. Eggs $8.00. Free Catalog.’ Mapleude Leghorn Farm. Box 0. Tremon . Ill. BABY CHICKS $12.50 Per 100 and Up Chickens, Ducks and Guineas. Write CLINTON HATCHERY l. POULTRY . . . m. d 1 and m, 5 petizer, stimulates food consumptlon 11:0 “wilt".‘iié‘afgquwgtm and M. A (3mm i . Barred Books. From stock rel . . l and thhenllwi increases the rate of ii“? a,“ eggulproducéion.‘ willie fimfmmumm l “e r u m grow . s sometimes substituted in”. a Hamtmm comniiwmiiif’ 3mi- P-Ilhp ; l lony Broader . I ' e Made of California Redwood. Order direetfrom this Id. ‘ ) , ncwuul, -s... »'“.» ,—~»us...,. ‘ ,M-A.-.w.«..-W ’5‘ .\_. ¥,,A, / "v M- ”A “padres”. in...“ ~14..V.».i ‘ Wh.-‘1‘. ,: .eu..._ VM’wfi-m11-w- 7‘ . than 0.5 much as small. Splendid Success of Mrs. Ethel Rhoades in Preventing White Diarrhea . Mrs. Rhoades’ letter will no doubt be of utmost interest to poultry raisers who have had serious losses from White Diarrhea. We will let Mrs. Rhoades tell it in her own words: "Gentlemen: I see reports of so many losing their little chicks with White Diarrhea, so thought I would tell my experience. My first incubator chicks when but a few days old, began to die by the dozens with White Diar- rhea. I tried different remedies and was about discouraged with the chick- en business. Finally, I sent to the Walker Remedy 00., Dept 508, Water- loo, 1a., for a $1. 00 box of their Walko White Diarrhea Remedy. It’s just the only thing for this terrible disease. We raised 700 thrifty, healthy chicks and never lost a single chick after the first dose.’ ’———.Mrs Ethel Rhoades, Shenan- doah, Iowa. Cause of White Diarrhea White Diarrhea is caused by the Bac- illus Bacterium Pullorum. This germ is transmitted to the baby chicks through the yolk of the newly hatched egg. Readers are warned to beware of \Vhite Diarrhea. Don’t wait until it kills half your chicks. Take the “stitch in time that saves nine.’ Re- member, theie is scarcely ahatch with- out some infected chicks. Don’t let these few infect your entire flock. Pre- ~vent it. Give Walko in all drinking water for the first two weeks and you won’t lose one chick where you lost hundreds before. These letters prove it: Never Lost a Single Chick Mrs. L. L. Tam, Burnetts Creek, lnd., writes: “I have lost my share of chicks from White Diarrhea. Finally I sent for two packages of Walko. I raised over 500 chicks and I never lost a single chick from White Diarrhea. Walko not only prevents White Diar- rhea, but it gives the chicks strength and vigor; they develop quicker and feather earlier.” Never Lost One'After First Dose Mrs. C. M. Bradshaw writes: “I used to lose a great many chicks from White Diarrhea, tried. many remedies and was about discouraged. As a last resort I sent to the Vt'alker Remedy 00., Dept. 508, Waterloo, Iowa, for their Walko White Diarrhea Remedy. I used two 50c packages, raised 300 White VVyan- dottes and never lost one or had one sick after giving the medicine and my chickens are larger and healthier than ever before. I have found this com- pany thoroughly reliable and always get the remedy by return mail.”——Mrs. C. M. Bradshaw, Beaconsfield, Iowa. 'You Run No Risk We will send VVALKO White Diar— rhea Remedy entirely at our risk— postage prepaid—so you can see for yourself what a wonder-working rem- edy it is for White Diarrhea in baby chicks. So you can prove as thou- sands have proven——that it will stop your losses and double, treble, even quadruple your profits. Send 500 for package of WALKO (or $1.00 for extra large box)—-give it in all drinking water and watch results. You’llfind you won’t lose one chick where you lost dozens before. It’s a positive fact. You run no risk. We guarantee to refund your money promptly if you don’t find it the greatest little chick saver you ever used. The Leavitt & Johnson National Bank, the oldest and strongest bank in Waterloo, Iowa, stands back of our guarantee. WALKER REMEDY 00., Dept. 5011. Waterloo, Iowa. Send me the () 5011. regular size (or ()1 $1 economical large size) package of Walko White Diar— rhea. llcmcdy to try at your risk. Send it on your positive guarantee to promptly refund my money if not satisfied in every way. I am enclosing 50c (or $1.00). (I’. 0. money order. check or currency acceptable). Name .............................................. Town .............................................. fltate ............................ R F D .......... Mark (X) in square indicating size package wanted. Luge package contains about two and one-third I ‘ floation and growth of a large, strong —L. B. Reber. Cod-liver oil will assist in the calci- frame so much desired. It assists the chick to more efficiently assimilate the mineral salts supplied in the bqnemeal, granulated bone, and fine. oyster shell or finely ground limestone rock that should form part of every growing ra- tion. By this more complete assimila- tion, digestive disturbances and auto- intoxication are corrected, due to the neutralizing effects the calcium has on ent as a result of both lactic and car- bonic acids which are constantly being given off in the process of cell division or growth. If the chicks are induced to take outdoor exercise regularly after they are ten days old and become exposed to the direct rays of the sun, and the following feeding schedule followed, little trouble should be experienced and a. very satisfactory growth should take place. Chick Scratch Grain: 200 lbs. Fine Cracked Corn 100 lbs. Fine Cracked Wheat 100 lbs. Steel-Cut Oats Grain 5th to 8th Week: 2 parts Chick Scratch Feed 1 part Medium Siced Cracked Corn 1 part Wheat Miscellaneous Feeds Skim-milk or semi-solid buttermilk fed daily. Water before chicks at all times. Sufficient green food to last chicks a half hour daily. Plenty of sunshine, exercise and free range. Chick Mash: Bran Flour Middlings Corn Meal Sifted Ground Oats Fine Ground Meat Scrap Dried Powdered Buttermilk Bone Meal Calcium Carbonate (Ground limestone rock). Or a high quality commercial butter- milk chick mash. 200 lbs. 100 lbs. 100 lbs. 100 lbs. 75 lbs. 25 lbs. 10 lbs. 10 lbs. THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. HE seventeenth week, ending Feb- ruary 27, still shows the heavy breeds in the lead. The high pen of Rhode Island Reds is owned by the \Vest Neck Poultry Farm, Huntington, Long Island. It has a production to date of 792 eggs. This compares with a total production of 846 eggs in the the acid. condition which may be pres- . ‘ ' Live Delivery Chicks that are lively and healthy from pure-bred cardully sa- Iected stock. One-fifth down books order. Good poultry judges say 'our flocks are unusun ,7 good. Order today. Last you we m not this to supply the 11mm..om early this year. ”1"“ on ("“9““) 25 50 100 50. I.” Rea: Farmer‘s & Mechanic's Bank. this 80. Rock. ......... 34.25 30.00 315.00 72.00 0140 my. R. 1'. Red; . ....... 4.25 0.00 15.00 72.00 140 wn. Rocks ........ 4.511 11.50 l6.00 77.00 150 WASHTENAW HATCHERI'. wn. Wylndottes 4.50 11.50 111.00 77.00 150 Gedde‘ Road , , Wh. 1. Br. Leghorn. 3.711 7.00 13.110 112.1111 120 Ann Arbor. Michlm BABION’ S QUALITY CHICKS OUR EXTRA SE11.“ CTED FLOCKS will be $3. 00 per 100 higher and Chi cks from our Fancy Stock of BLUE RIBBON PENS, will be°$5.00 per 100 higher. Postpaid. 100 per cant live delivery guarm . Banks references. You cacnnot go wrong. Order from this ad. Thousands satisfied. Ten year-5' experience. Ours are cheapest not the cheapest chicks the best. BABIOON'S FRUITS ANDc klPOULTRY FARMS. Flint. Michigan. CHICKS from heavy winter laying stock produced by MICHIGAN'S OLD RELIABLE HATCHERY. Pioneer Breeders and Hatchers. operating the best Hatchery in the State. Pure-bred .TOM BARRON and AMERICAN WHITE LEGHORNS, Anconas, Barred Rocks. Rhode Island Reds. Strong. well hatched Chicks from Iloganized. free range stock. By insured Parcel Post Prepaid to your door. 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. ' 17 years experience in the business and giving absolute satisfaction to thousands. Got valuable Illustrated Catalog free, and lowest prices bti‘ore placing your cider elsewhere. VAN APPLEDORN BROS. HOLLAND HATCHERY AND POULTRY FARM. R. 7c HOLLAND. MICHIGAN. *' " Punt; HEAVY ~1 BU Y GENEV a...» Hun»... CHICKS Postage prepaid to your home. Prices on 50 100 300 500 1000 . dc R. C. Wh., Br. do But! Leghorns, Anconas ...... 3 7. 00 $13.00 $38.00 $62. 00 $120 Barred & Wh. Rocks, Reds, English Wh. Leghornsu 8.00 15.00 44.00 72.00 140 Bl. Minorcas. Wh. anndottes, Buff 0mingtons ...... 8.00 15.00 44.00 72.00 140 Blue Andaluslans, S. L. Wyandottes. R. I. Whites... 10. 00 18.00 52. 00 80.00 Mixed. all varieties ............................... 5.00 10.00 20.00 48.00 95 We have Personally lmpecled All of Our Flock! since Jan. 27th. and Found Them to ‘T he Healthy and Free from the New European Pelt. Veiorinarian‘ 0 signature furnished to Verify Health of Our Flocks. Pure-bred, free range, careiulh inspected flocks. Hundreds if D customers. 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed Free Catalog. Reference: Member . Bank of Geneva. B. C. A. GENEVA HATCHERY. BOX 29. GENEVA. lNDlANA. 1 DILIGENT CHICKS DID IT Postpaid prices on -500 Single Comb White Leghorns ............................... $135.25 $12. 00 $57 50 arrel Plymouth Rocks .................................... 7.75 15.00 72.05 S. C. Mottled Aflt‘onas ................................... 11.75 13.00 02.50 Mixed Chicks .............................................. 4. 75 9.00 42.50 Low in price. high in quality. Order right from this ad, or send for our catalog. If close in call on us. we are located on the l\l-11 cement road, 2 Mihs north of Holland. We have pullots for sale after May first. DILIGENT HATCHERY, Holland, Mich. Harm I'. Knoll, Owner. A REAL Poultry Farm, not simply a Hatchery. Chicks 713111 1111;111:1er flocks dot the leading heavy layinl s ains. 1' an 1011's to insure health a . Chicks will please you and satisfy you. a nd vigor , 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. Postpaid prims on :5 50 100 500 S. C. White Leghorns. (5111111111 Heavy Layin., Sll‘ 'n). 3."r 7. 00 13. 0 ‘ Barred Rocks. s. 1.110“l ...... $4.55) $11 8.00 315.311 ‘i’zzfgg White Rc1ks. “'hite Wyzindottes ......................... 5.00 9.00 17.00 82.00 Free Circular. Bank Reference. HILLCROFT‘ FARM, Box 31, Cooperwille, Michigan. Pedigreed, Heavy- Egg Strain Chicks White I 1 glmrns hemlcd by males di- rut from l4 1 kart; lust yo or s M. A. C. International Egg Conttst winners. Also leadin strnin Anconas, Rocks, S.C. Reds. lulled hycxperts. Modern hatching methods. Guarantee I vigorous delivery. Free Catalog. llcflgnn 11.1mm 80:]. 11.11.1111. lid; Q seventeenth week last year made by W. C. Eckard’s White Leghorns. The second high pen is the Barred Rocks belonging to F. E. Fogle, East Lansing, with 758 eggs. Third comes the Royal Hatchery Leghorns, Zee- land, which have p10duced 734 e'~'y g.gs l Fouith, Leghoms belonging to J. P. Gasson, Versailles, Ohio, with 716 eggs to its credit. Fifth are the Barred Rocks ~01“ the Winter Egg Farm, Leth- bridge, Alberta, with a production of 694 eggs. The percentage 01' production the Leghorns have been doing the -best during the last few weeks. The heav- ier breeds are showing a decline in their production, but they will com- plete the winter cycle in the contest well ahead. The cold spell out the total production for the week down by ninety-two eggs, as compared with the previous week. BETSY ANN DIES. LI) BETSY ANN finally went to' hen heaven this week. She would have been seven years old this spring but the winter was too much for her. Hens get much older than that, but not on this farm usually. We make a practice of cleaning up the flock eve1y spring and rarely keep a hen longer than two years. The blackies ale fin- ally getting down to business by filling ' with each order. Catalogue free, dtampa up Superior pure-bred baby chicks pur- chased for a few cents a piece grow quickly into steady dollar produc- ing birds. Before you know it the INSPECTED " GOOD Loon“ 1| QUALITY 0.310115 All“. Moi. most beautiful breedd. 100 & up. OBEA UTIFUL ART .0 cockerels are ready for market and a ' chock 11 on.1u.1~1.s'ni..“m‘tii.:‘..;m ' the pullets have started to lay. L I . b‘ tight? {Goggfggfw 311%. 213 ’ The l “ ’ c. N‘uch ailser Hatcherle , y are bred to pay from such 1 ‘ mmm m a“ “:2 "”01“”. 0th atom '1 famous prize winning and egg-lay— 1r1g strains as Tom Barron and l/‘ I-IollywoodWhiteLeghorns.Hatched 1n largest: hatchery in Michigan. write for Catalog and special low prices. 82‘ isfaction guaran teed. Book your orders now . . Leghorns, Anconas, Rocks, Reds, Wyandottes, for firizel3f1.odl§2;encs' Orpingtons. Minorcas. Lowest prices. Cata- . ° slog Free. Address nearest office. ‘ SUPERIOR D. T. FARROW CHICKERIES POULTRY FARMS . Peorh.III., D00 Moln¢0.k.. HilwnukuJVlm. IndianapolilJll. Chicks for I925} Again We are ready to book orders for Baby Chicks. Barred and White Ito-113.111.1115. White and Silver Laced Wyandottes. White and Buff Orpingtons. Black Minorcas, Anconas. VVhiIe, Brown and Butt Leghorns. Sand for Poultry (‘ircular with price list. 100 per cent delivery. ' STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION. . Kalamazoo, Michigan. Active member International Baby (‘hick Association, Member Michigan Stutt- 19211111 Bureau. C H l C K 5 That Satisfy l 1 Profit Make rs—Early Layers i l ZEELAND. MICH. Superior Pure Bred Baby Chicks 250 to 280. Egg Strain pedigreed males head 1 our famous flocks of 13”" ““5“ 1111 1‘s from heavy lay-9T3 l T-ncrod ‘m°r'c.n S. 1‘. 1.111;. W311 111 and Brown Leghorns. ‘ nndTom Barron Eng- 124'::’leri1.~. li;linr1ml 1.01M and R. l MIhWhlIo L...“°rn" i. liuls, 151';A.\_~111"11d chicks, 10c; C13,,“ ' ’ Sheppard's Famous A 1'1131'M (1111). 3'11 nwnry down. Pay l MoulodAnoonu, Park's Bud. full 111111111111 on (lays hol'oro chicks are 1.44, Rocks. Our birds won sh 11111111. 11mm lire (lcliwi-y. Post-go llru prlxe- In any production 311.1111 1 ntulugu {11111. class atHolland andWestMich- 1 THE BUS HIATCHERY, R. 2-M. Zeeland. Mich. igan State Fairs. All flocks bred Prothrough generations for hlgh egg productlon. Prompt was live delivery. prop-Id. anywhere east 0 the Rockies- Price: low. Order early to flat chiwa when you want them. Our beautifully haunted. inltructive Fro. chick booklet will give 3:, 1:11:51: val automation. Write for your Sliver Ward Hotehmfiol' 29 ,Zooland.flloh. @Wfi ,‘JUST-RITE Pedigree. 130.259 We 05:33:33.. 201) oular breeds high power layers 20 rare breed: 6 ducklinga. Nab-b Quality. none better at an 97% live arrival guaranteed. Postage Paid. Fro. 0 ”o International Baby Chi at .4th“ the egg basket. I keep a pail of bran before them all the time, and warm the drinking water three times a day. BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS and We on now booking orders. Dar 100. 0111 direct HATCHERY. Paw Paw. Mich. ”hm Batches-lea, Ave. 13 GmbluJflno Bi: 5.Lb Engli‘h w' Leghons 3:55:11 layers. Chickl. hatching eggs. Free catalog describes them sod ll of practical money making pou nrylt information. Send for It. A. W. WAUCHEK. Goblet. Mich. WHITE LEGHORNS Prices are sl5andm818 ectrrom this Id. EAGLE LAKE M -__.“- ‘h. Varieties. Prepaid Prices on 500 1000 Pure English White, Brown a. Bufl' Leghoins ...... 34.0003100 $13.00 $02.00 $120.00 Barred Rocks, Reds, Ancnoas .................... 4.25 8.00 15.00 72.00 140.00 WI]. 8: Buff Rocks. Wh. Wyandottcs. Minorcas. . . . 4.75 9. 00 17.00 82. 00 160.00 811. Wyandottes. Orpingtons ..................... 5.50 10. 00 19 00 92. 00 180.00 Mixed Heaiy and Light. $12. 00, $10. ()0. ' . Prices quoted are for chicks hahhed from OUR GOOD UTILITY FLOCKS. Chicks from _,. m W, 7"";121. 1“,;“g‘4r ‘73 QK‘. .1 a. .1 Ashe—wasted '1‘. 35', . a: 7.; am "rw'rarfi-erm V r ",,.....‘.,,.t5, N. .. \__.~. From .w‘orlddam , , strain; 250-280. Barron strain, 230- ‘, 270. Birds culled ‘by experts from t are mated with males from dams of high records. 100% live delivery. ' guaranteed. 5% discount on orders placed before April 1. Write for our illustrated catalog showing our poultry show winners. “Regular ing over our pen. ous V layers. Tancr‘ed I the state university. All our pens. \‘\'~ , ,1 :3 / Egg Machines,” said W. -W Zike,» . ‘- .. judge of Holland show, after look-. . Reliable Hatchery and Poultry Farm, Bus Holland, Mich. ; -./ Dear Uncle Frank: . _ ‘ You see, you made a mistake by let- ting us in the other time, ’cause we came right back. But since we’re here, may’nt we stay long enough to tell an... BABY IIIIIIIKS d T B W. L ’1 Heavy 1' pa Brown Leg- fiz::;f:£. 62nd??? Rhof'l‘e 12?:5Reda— bode Island Whites-Sheppard’s Anconaa—Parh'a Barred Rocha If you want pure bred chicks that are bred right, hatched right, and chipped right, that grow and will make you a profit, get our new low prices and free catalog before you buy. - . a are carefull culled and developed on free range. All chicks are hand icked and. inspected, no cripples or weakllngs. Every one ltrongan healthy. 100% Live Delivery—Postage Paid Satisfaction Guaranteed. Write Now. White Leghorn and Barred Rock pulleta after May 1, at low prices. Knoll’s Hatchery, R. R. I2, Box 51., Holland, Mlch. l . From World’s Greatest Layers LOW PRICES-«Catalog Free you'what is on __our minds? It is those dreadful state exams. Why does one man have the right to make the questions? The pupils of the seventh and eighth grades begin early in the spring to study the things that they think most likely to be asked about, leaving other Just as important things pass by un- noticed. Then when the days come, they go, with their minds filled with anxiety and fear, to a strange place and among strange people, where the exams are held. ' ‘ There they sit, amid much confusion, ; Pure-Bred Big Value B ABY»,C H I C K S OHIO ACCREDITED CHICKS are produced by this' road. we 0 gr: Hatchery. Every bird comes up to the standards set by S. C. White Lechorm, (he Poultry Department of the Ohio State University, and S. C. Brown Lenhorm. every breeding bird has been inspected and leg banded s, C. Butt Leghorm, by inspectors trained by them. 8. c. Mottled Anoonal. 8 C. BIk. Minorcau. Healthy Chicks Mean Larger Profits Barred Rocks, The health of our flocks is of the very best. We keep our g’hé“ Rnofk.RodI birds in the open on free range under natural conditions - c- R. I. Red: and they have the vitality to produce happy, healthy, Whit; W dndofle'a lively chicks which grow into profitable birds. Our flocks 8 C B fy' Or in tone hate been carefully culled and bred for years for high 8.0 .Whu‘t my“? ton; l-gg production. J. - Black 69”,?“ - Special Combination Otters—Write Today for Free Catalog. "'9’ c - Wolf Hatching & Breeding Co. ”1"“ The “have "mm" Will give what you need. Cibaonburg. Ohio AP oovm iv an mum wmvmmm‘n Where you see the above label you can be sure the chicks come up to the rigid standards set. by The Ohio State Univer- whether' you want cool. sity. BUY HERE. trying to concentrate upon the subject at hand. When their paper is finished, how they dread to Walk up front with it to get the next set of questions. They wonder, as they go to the desk, if their new dress with its fluffy ruffles and new slippers, or their first long .— —_ m— g ’ I “hose Exam , matron-s I 5' V ”Are T/tey Fair? ~ ., I 'I ' pants'suitgloo'ks as‘good as the» 1:385. or if they can make a. hit with that . cute little personage of the opposite sex across the table. ilar thoughts persist in driving their minds awayfrom the examnntil they are obligedto leave part of the ques- tions unanswered in their hurry to get through in time. ' ‘ , Then, sometimes there are only three or four questions on a subject, never over ten. If the teachers hadn’t laid great stress on these certain things, then'it's all off for the, pupil, and he (or she) has to go another .year to school and study the same material over again. . Is it fair to make the country scholo ars write on these exams when those in the city don’t have to? There they are marked just as much for their rewations as for the examination pa- pers and most anyone can tell a thing better than they can write it. Won’t some of the M. C.’s give their opinions? Perhaps then we will see it in a different light—The “Blue birds,” Midland, Mich. ' meat. or both.. Write In. . select, pure—bred. heavy laying flecks that have been Inspected and \ ('All‘lolfdhagf’hgnef‘rrl)? holding Ohio State University Certificates. 01,1) CUSTOMERS TAKE \o5% OF‘ OUR OUTPUT EACH YEAR. 13m 7 Member I. ll. (‘. ' 2 . '”"'l'i."'d..i.;é'iigiit"ribla'uiis'ad Free Circular. "lum' 31 m 100 5mm“ MODERN HATCHERY, Box 44. m. BLANCHARD, oulo. TYRONE POULTRY FARM Let us sell you your 1925 Chicks from pure-bred. select White and Brown Leghorns, ‘ A. and Ohio Association. Barred; \Vhite and Buff Rocks, R. 1. Beds, Ant-arias. Black and White Minorcas, White, Buff. Golden and Silver Wyandottes, White and Butt Orpingtons. Black Spanish, Light Brahmas, etc. Of leading strains sm-h as Barron, Parks. ct". 3000 CHICKS GIVEN AWAY TO OUR CUSTOMERS DURING l925. We guarantee 100% Live Delivery, Postpaid. Reference: Commercial State Savings Bank. Before ordering Chicks elsewhere. get our special circular containing our low prices and particulars about the 3000 PRIZE CHICKS. L TYRONE POULTRY FARM, DEPT. 20, FENTON, MICHIGAN. ‘ YPSIFIELD HIGH GRADE CHICKS Healthy and IIusky~Tme to brced~0rdeh right from this ad. Postage prepaid—25% books order. 100% live delivery guaranteed per 50, 100. 1000. English Type White Leghorns, Grade A ..................................... $9.50 '51 8 .3? ‘12? English Type White Leghoms. Grade B ....................................... 16 7 1 White Wyandottes .......................................................... 8 50 10 75 145 Barred Rooks ................................................................ 8.00 15 72 140 Rhode Island Reds .......................................................... 8.00 15 72 140 Ref” First National Bank. Ypsilanti. Department of our modern Egg Farm. Production. YPSIFIELD EGG This is not primarily a Commercial Hatchery, but the- Hatchery established from 20 years’ experience in breeding and prolific egg FARM HATCHERY, Ypsilanti, Mich. \ Early Maturing BABY CHICKS From Pure Bred, Blood Tested Stock r, All of our breeding steel: has been tested for Bucillary White Diarrhea. and Culled for Egg Type and Standard Requirements. This should greatly aid in the control of White Diarrhea Troubles. Write for and 5. C. W. Leghorns. Milan, Mich. prices on our B. P. Rocks. 3. I. Beds. White Wyandottes. W. P. ROCks. MILAN HATCHERY, Box 4 FIRST CLASS CHICKS $10 per 100 and up. From pure—bred locks on free range. culled by an expert. 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. Postpaid prices 25 50 100 500 1000 English S. (I. White Leghorns .............................. $3.50 $6.50 $12.00 $57.50 $115 8. C. Brown Leghorns ..................................... 3.50 6.50 12.00 57.50 115 Barred Rocks. S. and R. C. Reds 4.25 8.00 15.00 72.50 140 Mixed assorted, 25. $3; 50, $5.50: 100, $10. Ref.: State Commercial Savings Bank. Order Free ('atalog. todav. Ym:,take no chances. HU BOX 36, ZEELAND. MICHIGAN Dundee Chicks Stock all Pure Bred and Blood Tested for Baccillary White Diarrhea. This assures you of more healthy, sturdy chicks. The kind that live and grow into money making flocks. l’locks have all been thoroughly culled for years by experienced men. Four Leading Varieties: Barred Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, S. C. Mottled Anconas, S. C. English White Leghorna. Write for price list and catalogue describing in detail about; our test for Baccillary White Diarrhea DUNDEE HATCHERY, Box A, Dundee, Michigan HIGH-GRADE CHICKS Produced from splendid iioeks of the best strains. Bred-today and clgfiefully inspected and selected. ' tell me what .. OUR LETTER BOXs as» Dear Uncle: I belong to three clubs, the pig club, calf club, and sewing club. I have fifteen Berkshire pigs and one Holstein calf. I have completed the first year sewing club. I won about $167 this 'u . S on 100% Live Anlval5guarmtm 500 1000 year at Detroit, Grand Rapids, and ' ' ‘ I ’ (:9 a e V . .s. (l. 3333;: Birgitta ”.21 all); Leghorns .................. 37.00 $13.00 $62.50 $120 Hlllsdale fans. I like club work very lint-red & “'hite Rocks. s. c. s: R. C. Reds. Anconas.... 800 15. lago 14_ well; this makes my fourth year—Vir- gait: a’yzgggt:::.13uft Orplngtons .................... 3:3 13.33 3&58 '173g1n1a Roberts, North Adams, Mich. It is certainly fine that you are so active in club work. . And apparently it has paid you well financially, as well as all that you have gotten out of it otherwise. Dear Uncle Frank: I do not agree with Olive Weaver about a tree falling and not making any noise, if no animal or man were around to hear it., If you went out in the yard and plugged your ears and yelled, .and there was no one around to hear you, the noise would. be there just'the same. Don’t you think so, Uncle Frank? What do the other M .’s think?— Your niece, Jaqueline Stevens, Atkins, It seems that it would be, but .I wouldn’t swear to it. You know, things are not always what they seem. Dear Uncle Frank: I have something to ask you. Why couldn’t we, in summer, go for picnics on Belle Isle, or a different place like Bob-lo? I think the M. C.’s would like it. What do you say, M. C.’s? I think that would be fun. Have races for boys and girls, and other sports. I think many of us could go. You could also give prizes for racing. etc. Please you think, Uncle Frank. If we had picnics like that, the M. C.’s could get acquainted with each other sooner.—Your loving niece, Barbara Paul, Capac, Mich. You make a good suggestion but most M. C.’s would be too far away to take part. Dear Uncle Frank: I have found two very nice Merry Circle friends through one of the Cor- respondence Scrambles. I am still cor- responding with them and, best of all, one of them I have hopes of seeing some day as they do not live very far from here. I would only have to call through two telephone offices to talk to her. Well, Uncle Frank, I thank you very much for my membership card and button, and also for my fountain pen, which I am using at present. I am certainly well pleased with them. I-v do not know what I would do now without my pen, as I use it When ever e. _ . . Iwrit 100% Lire Delivery Guaranteed. Postpaid prices 011 100 500 1000 White and Brown Leghorns. Anconas ..................... $7.00 $13.00 $62.00 $120 Barred ROI-ks. R. I. Reds ................................ 8.00 15.00 72.00 140 White Rocks & Wyandottcs. Black Minorcas ............. 8.50 10.00 77.00 150 White & Buff Orpinntons. Buff Wyandottes ............ 9.00 17.00 82.00 100 Mixed Chicks. '100, $12. 25% deposit books your order for future delivery. Reference: First State and Savings Bank. - lTHE HOWELL HATCHERY. DEPT. 57. HOWELL. MICHIGAN. I enjoy reading the letters written )' fié‘ r6 . “V 1.. By Donald Shull, Muskegon, Michigan. by White Amaranth, Just Peggy, Hal- cyone, and others who sign their names in this unknown way. I enjoyed looking at the picture that Harold Coles dnew, but do not think or believe that he looks anything like it. One girl wrote and said that where she lived all the girls went to church for was to geta ride home with a fel- low. I love to go to church, but as for going to get a ride home with a fellow, I do not go for that purpose, as I usually go in the morning. I go because I enjoy hearing about the things in the Bible, and I fully believe that church is the place for young and old to go on Sunday. Well, I will stop and let somebody else have room for their letter also.— From a Merry Circle friend, Eva San- derson, R. 2, Applegate, Mich. It is fine that you have made such good M. C. friends. I don’t think Har- old fiatters himself any in'that picture. I believe that it is better to goto church for a purpose than as an ex- cuse. Dear Uncle Frank: . . _ » Mamma says I' makeher think of , one time when she was a school girl; . The school had a box social. and one little . grade boy had only five cents to spend on a box. So as the boxes were _ sold he would . bid five cents on every one. Finally, when the boxes were all sold, the man that sold them let the boy have one for five cents. , So I am the way he was. "Keep on bidding.” I wrote you a letter and answered a contest win a. button. Hope to do better this time—Your still-wanting-to—be niece, Ruth Hiscock, R. 8, Kalamazoo, Mich. That’s right, just keep on bidding. That’s the only way to win out. i but did not even 1' us [(4 /ot‘ a Tod/In é] t/u’ fat/acre, [horas an a roan d a fat” These and sim—' A .. a‘rtISts are getting it is. , ‘ , This time I am going to give them lens is a ,woman. Sibil little amusement when we had it a year or so ago. This subject is my- self. Draw what you think Uncle Frank leoks like.- If you think he looks funny, draw him funny. If you think he looks like a wise old owl, draw him that way. Draw him any way you want. ' The prizes will not beawarded on how near the drawings look like me,‘ but upon the quality of the work. The usual ten prizes will be awarded, the first two, being fountain pens; the next three, dictionaries; the next five, 'handy pocket knives. 'All who send in good drawings and are not Merry Circlers will get M. C. cards and but- tons. * Put your name and address in the upper left hand corner of your draw- ing.- If you are a Merry Circler, put M. C. after your name. This contest ends March 20, so you will have to get busy right away. Send your drawings to Uncle Frank, Michigan Farmer, De- troit, Michigan. ' when a young woman. NO TWO ALIKE. Dear Uncle Frank: we are from one another. ers about, but I am unable to express them in a smooth, musical way. I can only put my thoughts into a simple everyday language. I think it is the same with many of us. and it always READ-AND-WIN ANSWERS. has been thus. ELOW are the correct answers to the Read-and-Win questions which appeared in our February 28 issue: 1y American writers we find the same differences.‘ The writings of some are smooth an] musical; others, Franklin, 1. Six bushels per acre—5-273. for example, express their mighty 2- Eight and one-half per cent—~ _ ideals and principles in a simple, prac- 29-229738y feeding leguminous roughage tical way. Yet both types succeeded .._2§1297_ and became famous. 4. To stop living—28146. - 5. $3.68——290-22. 6. A solution of lye and water—— 280-12. 7. Wm. M. Jardine—13-281. 8. Picture of Christ Before Pilate, by Michael Munkacsy—15-283. This, of course, is not the only dif- ference, there are many. God meant that we should all be different, for the first biological law is~“No two things are exactly alike.”——“Wild Rose.” You are right; no two things are 9. 150-9'277- . exactly alike. But each has its pur- 10. The farmer who owns hls own pose in the great infinite scheme of farm—3-271. things. READ-AND-WINN'ERS. THE GOLDEN CIRCLE. HE Read-and-Win contest brought the usual good number of replies, but-many of the contestants were un- lucky in answering the questions. Number_.,ten and number one were the Robert Green, Waltz, Mich. _ questions which proved the stumbling M1633.“ Mulder, R- 6» Grand Rapids, block for most of them- Henry Van Bort, R. 3, Holland, Mich. After sorting out all the correct pa— Reva Wheeler, Gregory, Mich. pers, I drew the prize winners, which Mabel 801118118». Farwell, Mich. . happened to be as follows: Bernice Blakle, Marine City, MlCh. Fountain Pens. Nearly every week someone gets the Ellis Aldrich, Fairgrove, Mich. Golden Circle honor, for expressmg Lawrence Jumper, R. 5, St. Johns, original thought, or in some way doing Mich. something which makes them worthy of the honor. The gold rimmed Merry Circle button which is given is very attractive. I would like the names of “Halcy- one,” “Ego,” and “Me,” as they are entitled to the honors. Every little while I will publish the names of those~ who have received these honors. HOSE who have received the G01- den Circle honors lately are: Dorothy Shoemaker, Carleton, Mich. Willard Jones, R. 1, Marlette, Mich. Dictionaries. Alma McCully, Deckerville, Mich. Lorg Vroman, R Durand, Mich. Cora A. Walling, R. 8, Jackson, Mich. Knives. Lilly Trevo, Chassell, Mich. Arline Bohner, R. 7, Traverse City, Mich. Addison Miller, Scottville, Mich. Ella Engelhard, R, 3, Sebewaing, Raymond Ludlow, R. 5, Albion, Mich. Mich, R. 3. ____.__.__.— SO BIG. SHOULD A GIRL WHISTLE? (Continued from page 365). Chicago’s millions. Something of this came to Selina as she manoeuvred her way through the throng. She felt a. little thrill of significance, of achieve ment. She knew the spot she wanted for her own. Since that first trip to Chicago with Pervus in the early days of her marriage she had made the journey into town perhaps not mere than a dozen times, but she had seen, and heard, and remembered. A place near the corner of Des Plaines, not at the curb, but rather in‘ the double line of wagons that extended down the middle of the road. Here the pur- chasing peddlers and grocers had easy access to the wagons. Here Selina could display her wares to the best advantage. It was just across the way from Chris Spanknoebel’s restaurant, rooming house, and saloon. Chris knew her; had known Pervus for years and his father before him; would be kind to her and the boy in case of Being a keen lover of good whistling, I could not refrain from sending in my opinion as to whether or not a, girl should whistle. First, let us attempt a definition of whistling. I believe we might call it, “Sound produced by blowing through a. small opening made by compressing the lips, and having a musical tone.” Unless one is really trying to be musical in their whistling, don’t con— sider it nice of anyone to annoy people by their attempts at whistling. But if one can really Whistle and .make it sound good, I believe it is an asset to themselves. Even if a person can whistle, there is no reason for being loud about it, as it seems ”that the louder the whistle the less musica it is. ' Surely. it is much better to see a young woman go about the day’s work a-whistling, than to have them pout— ing. Also, it is. my earnest opinion " :an ‘ ,wil'i‘ insomnia to T686038; its! ‘, ‘Tho'best whistler. I-h‘ave ever heard want. another drawing contest. 80.11619. 15 a woman, and if I remember right, ' ‘ ' (meet the world’s most famous whist- Sanderson a subject, one which caused quite 3- Fagan is noted for her marvelous ' whistling ability. Most certainly she could not have developed that ability if she had refrained from whistling If whistling is not overdone, but car- ried on in a modest way, (and I be- lieve both boys and girls should not overdo whistling any more than any other recreation), it is absolutely right for a girl to whistle—Gerald Richards. When I read “White Amaranth’s" letter it made me think how different L “White Am- aranth” has a vocabulary at her com- mand which enables her to express her thoughts in a beautiful way. Here I am with, oh, so many ideas and sent- iments which I would like to tell oth- Among the most brilliant of the ear- I laid 285 eggs in the Mich- igan International Egg Laying Contest and lipid the highest official record . over all breeds in Michi- . gan. My profit in one year was $7.00 above feed cost. Several thousand baby nieces of mine want a home with you and prom- ‘ ise to follow my good ex- ample for industry and profit. ' Good Seed Is a Safe Investment Grandview Poultry Farm Baby Chicks represent the HIGHEST SEED of EGG PRODUCTION. Let our stock demonstrate and convince you that breeding determines your profits. Let our SERVICE DEPARTMENT, under the direction of PROF. E. C. FOREMAN, shorten your road to success and help you avoid the many unpleasant little detours. Get our FREE ILLUSTRATED CATALOG. A SERVICE GUIDE, brimful of information, free to all customers—a poultry course without any expense attached. DEVRIES GRANDVIEW POULTRY FARM, ZeeIand, Mich. \_ \ '\; . \. Males from 298—304 egg ancestry; hens from 2(163-21233 anciestry. Every chick W 00 d 5 long an ea y, broo 5 making uniform flocks that 8 high in egg production. 100% safe arrival EGG BRED Barron m” guaranteed. In short, we sell you profits—how much f3}. Brown Leghoms do you want? Read our catalog for full information. nconas 19 YEARS Banged Rocks n arden ngcl‘gsnv a; FARMS ZEELAND. MICHu BOX M -- B-A-B-Y C-H-I-X-Af ' PURE ._ . - HOLLYWOOD Mitelggior 51mm LAYING LEGHORNS CHIC“ Direct doseendants o! hens BLA CK—BRO WN—BUF F ~— WHITE with records of 260 to 290. AISO mated to males from 283-290 ANCONAS AND MINORCAS BI’. Le IIllI’IlS egg dams. Plymouth Rocks. Barred. Buff, White. Rhode Island Informs Also Reds. R. C. and S. C. Silver-laced Wyandottes and , Hollywood Mated White LIGHT BRAHMAS and JERSEY GIANTS. 3 II flocks Rural Str-in W'IW for Prices Results Count—Read this. In 1922 Mark H. Butler. Albion. Mlch.. bought 200 yEschSEGGFngPAI‘t/g ALLEGAN, MICHIGAN Rural Poultry Farm Hollywood Muted chicks. 0f 90. . 1. era, artons—Eevrythmg the pullets raised. a good 8:113th laigedgraorshetlgaég fegmrcd éfor packing eggs properly; and 260 e gs in their first year one exc ameswa ui m max-kg So in 1924 Mr. Butler bought 1.000 more V q I’ 9'“ for POUIIW Nausea and Dally Barns Hollywood Mated chicks. Our Leghorn foundation stook came direct from Hollywood farms. Anconns were bred from H. Cecil Sheppard's 300—egg strain. Large, illustrated catalog tree. THE RURAL POULTRY FARM Zeeland, Mich., R. 1, Box 109 OUT IN FRONT AT CONTEST CIIICKS~EGGS—PUI.I.ETS Guaranteed to be from 111in producing stock. E '(xSuSS per 15. From Aristocrat strain exhibi— 4 tlon Barred Rocks and B alrview Reds. C III CK S 315 per 100-- Specxalb‘tarMatlng. Bap ron VI bite Leghorns and M0 ted Anconas. Select- ed tilitv Rocks and S.C. Beds. 813 per 100--Seloct- y"; figGhl-ade A Baal-cub? hit: , ~ -: g orns an Otte The Royal Wh1te . $353335 Anconas. FAIRVIEW Leghorn pen at the __ ,. . ~ ANCONAS POULTRY FARM B0! . . 203, z l d.M‘ h. International E g g ee 3“ ‘6 Laying contest of 1:925 Ed the entire contest or e "C“EBYJAR" first two weeks and after CHICKS or QUALITY ‘ 2““ D'"'°"' bemg.$““°nd 1“ the 1298‘ Blood Tested Flocks. Selected utility mating Barred horn class for ten weeks. agaln took. the Leghorn Rocks. Rhode Island Reds. Also Foreman Strain of header-ship _on Jan. 30. and stlll held 1t March 1515- Barred Racks. Delivery guaranteed. bank reference. High breeding counts. Write for our catalog. Write for prices. Krueper Poultry Farm & Hatchery. S. P. Wiersma, R. 2,ZeeIand,Mich. 8' 3' M"“' ”m"- P'“.°I‘s .fi'ldfilatshipng, Egg: CHICKS THAT LIVE. '* . > 1 pans in 1924 Michigan (purest. livery male son or y, healthy rec-range oc 240 or more egg hon. ('hicks $20, eggs $9 per hun- - m gtm- dred. W. C. ECKARD, Paw Paw, Mich. . l . ' I. Q Fluffy, lively youngsters that should grow '- Inn, and get on an nll-yur-round egg :5:- . . (,‘h' 1:: ml lat I ‘n e laying hams. F‘rtom_ cat-tofutllg mateduhigh- Egg Bred Barrred BOONS ”31:01:21,?” grit-Ell. 8 6'5; ifsflixfifiiflioiéaiiéar?n§ lifiné‘lb‘ifil‘y‘f {we catalog dssvribes .Wm and is “1119f moxie-v mak- . This gtock and our scientific hatchery ro- lng poultry information. Send for it. Gilt Edge duceschlcks thalhve, zrowtastJayeai-Iy Selecte for Barred Rock Farm, Goblet. M'Ch' uniform size and color so they will grow Into bo-ulllul _ Can You Sell? flocks of which {ou'll beproud. Place your order before We have an attractive our output is to en by others. Order now for present or Y 't' F ' f - - - . proposn Ion. O!‘ m orma- Orpingtons, Buff Rocks. INA-m. White, Brown Leg- less. Order direct from this adv. If less than 100 is . o wanted add 35c extra. Hatching eggs. Free circular DCSk C, The Michigan Farmer; Live delivery guaranteed. Postpaid. erlo for new chick booklet. H. L. Carl. 30: 100' Montgomery. Mich. that if a person can whistle and will need. a future delivery. Loading VINO“..- 0 Can ship chicks of high crude quality at once. Barred tlon address horns,- 12c. Anconss. 1355c. Mixed heavies. 12c. tells about 15 first class varieties. . . Detroxt, Mich. Rocks, Reds, White Rooks. 15c each. Wyandottes, Buff Mixed light breeds, 9%(3. May chicks $1.00 per 100 E“ A’ Shearer, Lawrence Hatchery. Grand Rapids. Michigan. '1‘"!TW.,.~7€J{B:Z-.i.yytw>h.L‘f""r: 7., ' r" -4 w».k..;..,'§ 'MTP‘T'w-zem marm- i i THE use of sulfate of potash produces tubers of cleaner appearance and of more uniform size ———many soil and crop authorities report. The above illustrations, taken from ac- tual photographs of potatoes grown by L. E. 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United States Representatives Dept. W310, 1058.1.38all08h’eet. Chicago 00 UP Send no Money \ Fan'fcnr PREPMD Only $629, a month if satisfied An Iron-clad writ- ten Guarantee. fl, ' mm , a . WHEN THE CALVES COME. N recent years we have learned that the cows should be in geod condi-‘ tion at the time of freehening. During the dry periOd the cow stores energy and tissue for turning into milk after the calf has arrived. This cannot be done unless she has more feed than is necessary for mere subsistence: Now that we have learned how to treat for milk fever, the final argument for moved. Good dairy cows are nervous crea- tures, so we exercise more care with them than with the draft mare or the sow, particularly at this time of fresh- ening. A comfortable box stall is pro- vided for the occasiou. . When the calf comes in cold weather, we also pro- vide the mother with a blanket, lest she be'chilled. Her udder is not milk- ed completely dry for two days after the calf is born. Where necessary, the afterbirth is removed inside of: forty- eight hours, and the cow is not permit- ted to eat it, as is too generally al- lowed. While we take pains, at this time, to have the cows in good flesh, special This Cow, From the Good Herd of John C. Buth & Son, Produced 23,314 Lbs. Milk and 632.8 Lbs. Butter-fat in Twelve Months. , . . attention is given to the matter of feeding for the first two or three weeks after calving. Over-feeding is danger- ous. The first day or two only some warm water, a portion of scalded bran or oats, and some good hay is all that will be necessary or desirable. Grad- ually the cow is then worked onto full feed, which sometimes requires three weeks.-——D. Kempster. AN ECONOMICAL RATION THAT HAS GIVEN GOOD RESULTS. ARGE quantities of high protein cancentrates that swell the costs of milk production are not necessarily essential to the maintenance of good breeding and production records, in the opinion of the dairy specialist of the New York state agricultural ex- periment; station. Instead of feeding a. ration contain- ing about twenty-four per cent crude protein, as is commonly done in many dairy sections, the station dairymen are feeding eighteen to nineteen per cent total crude protein in the grain ration, supplemented with mediocre alfalfa and clover hay and corn silage fed throughout the year because of short pasturage. The grain ration con- sists of. bran, 140 pounds; oats, ninety pounds; corn, 100 pounds; oil meal, 120 pounds; salt, three pounds; steam- ed bone meal, three pounds, which amounts just fill the feed “boat” used in the station barn. This ration has varied in cost from $31 to $41 per ton during the last two years. Each cow has received about one pound of this ration for each two and one-half pounds of milk testing 5.5 to six per cent butter-fat when calculated on a yearly basis, including the dry period. The average yield per cow in the herd of twenty-six pure-bred Jerseys for the past year was 7,185 pounds of milk and 407.6 pounds of butter-fat, as starving cows before calving is re' compared with an average for all cows in ‘the state for the same. period, of 5,060 pounds of milk~and~167¢pounds of butter-fat. Also, . during 1923,. a” total ‘ of twenty-one cows were bred, includ- ing three cows past fourteen .years of age, and two cows t elve years old. Fourteen became pregnant with one service, six with two services, while one fifteen-year-old cow required four These records, in the opin- ,' services. ion of the oflicials, justify the use of this medium protein grain mixture and legume hay. . . OLD BOSSY DOES BEST 0N BAL- ANGED DIET. 0U may conclude that Old Bossy ’ is not hungry. Yet, at the same time, she may not be getting the food she should have. A more carefully balanced ration may result in a decid- ed increase in the flow of milk at little, or no, extra expense for"feed. Perhaps Old Bossy is giving all the milk that she can, but, if her ration was figured, changes may be made which would greatly reduce the cost of production. The dairy cow in milk has definite food requirements and these must be met, before economical production is assured. During these ' winter months, Old Bossy would, no doubt, put on a, some- what broader smile if given the fol- lowing: ' About two pounds of nice, bright al- t'alfa hay for every 100 pounds of live weight. ‘7 About three pounds of nice, sweet smelling corn silage for every 100 pounds of live weight. About one pound of palatable grain mixture for every three» to four pounds of milk that she produces per day. The dairy ‘cow would also like to have a little exercise every day. ‘And don’t forget the water. -It is very es- sential and she will take lots of it, so keep it always available, pure, and clean. How is the baby? Fine. Well re- member Old Bossy helps to keep the baby feeling that way, so feed her a. good balanced ration and she will keep her feeling “finer.”——W. B. Fair- banks. HOLSTEINS LEAD IN VAN BUREN ASSOCIATION. IN the South Van Buren Cow Testing Association for the month of Janu- ary a total of 217 cows out of 255 were tested, the other thirty—eight being dry. The average milk production was 619 ' pounds, and the average butter—fat pro- duction was 31.4 pounds each. The high cow was a pure-bred Hol- stein, owned by Charles Stuart, of Paw Paw. She had a production of 1,847 pounds of milk and a. butter-fat pro- duction of 80.3 pounds. Marion Wilkinson, of Dowagiac, won high herd with his six pure-bred Hol- steins, with an average milk produc- tion of 1,941 pounds each and an aver- age fat production of fifty pounds each. Several members are enjoying rad- ios—Raymond Hyman, Tester. One of the least expensive portions of the dairy cow’s diet is water. It should, therefore, be furnished in abundance at all times, kept pure and ’ i 1 clean. Are you taking advantage of the courses of lectures given by the fac- ulty of the Michigan Agricultural Col- lege on farming topics. over WKAR, the college broadcasting station? A college education from the lips of col- lege professors at your own fireside is a new step in educational advance- meat. , . . , i n . ) sot otal ‘ lud- ‘ s of old. one hile '0111‘ _ pin- a of and AL- DSSY une lilly cid- :tle, the lion ade :ost milk and [cal 01d me- fol- live set 100 ain ads _to ind es- nd ng 111- are fig 7 l _l__\w- __ - g—‘w. Mi“ mm s” ' stirs: . nonnou Famous foreign treatment quickly relieves badly infested herds. Gives amazing results in cases owners believed hopeless. Formula avail- able for every farmer. ._ Complete freedom from the ravages of the terrible abortion plague is now assured every worried farmer through a famous Swedish treatment. For many years it has been used with complete success in the old country, ban- ishing this disease from whole dairy sections literally rotten with abortion. After great expense of time and money the formula was reproduced and given to farmers in this country. History repeated itself. Herd after herd was rid of this disease. Even cows cogsidered hopeless were restored to health an produced fine, sturdy calves. Saved Every Calf Frank H. Halfman, Crown Point, Ind.,is one of hundreds of grateful users, he says: “Two years ago for a period of three months I lost every 'calf in my herd of forty cows. All abor— tion remedies failed. I was desperate. I heard of your C. C. 0. treatment, used it and have never lost a calf since. It completely stopped my abortion troubles. " For nine years the fame of this easily given treatment has spread from breeder to breeder. Today it is distributed on an absolute binding guarantee that it will stop every case of abor- tion; that every cow treated will deliver a normal calf or the treatment cost is refunded. Such a broad guarantee is ssible only because 0. C. C. is practically 100 successful. Send No Money Mr. John W. Froberg, who is a native of Sweden and is responsible for introducing this treatment in the U. S. A. will gladly send every farmer troubled with abortion full information about it. Don't send any money-just your name and address to Froberg Remedy Co., 13 Lincoln St., Valpariso, Ind. Full details will be mailed you without any obligation. Read the wonderful true story of C. C. C. You will be surprised how easy it is to treat your herd, how ittle it costs. how quickly you get results. 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No warping, no fire hazard. no up- keep. storm-proof. Easy to erect—by your own labor. Erecting brackets furnished. Continuous Doors— All The Same Size I Height. can be easily added to~at any time- I Strong. rigid chute. "Copperized Metal" , has been used in Metal Silos for over twelve I. years. Write today for catalog. Special 3 Offer to Club-Buyers. Agents wanted. ‘ ms THOMAS a. anusraouo co. ‘ - > " Dept. D ndon, Ohio _ Established 1904 uf*siars .850 pounds in 1924, a decrease of 16,- , i gin/ens stem: eons. ENSILAGE corn silage, when—'fiad with the. ideal dairy ration con- sisting of legume hay, silage .and a. balanced grain mixture, will produce milk and butter-fat more economically than field corn silage, according to the results of experiments completed re— cently at the Purdue University Agri- cultural Experiment Staiton. This problem has been of considerable in- terest to dairymen who have debated the question of whether to use regular field corn or a. special ensilage corn to fill their 61165. Other experiments at Purdue have shown that when sil- age has been fed, the cost of milk pro- duction is approximately thirteen per cent lower than when silage is not in- cluded in the ration. Three trials were conducted, two lots of four cows each being fed in each trial. The cows received alfalfa hay, a good grain mixture and cdrn silage. All of the feeds, except the silage, remained the same during each rial. The proportionate amounts of all feeds fed were the same through- out the experiment. Analyses of both kinds of silage showed that the field com silage con- tained four to five per cent more dry matter than ensilage corn silage. Chemical analyses showed that there was little difference between the dry matter and protein content of green fodder and of corn silage. Production figures showed that field corn silage produced approximately 1.5 per cent more milk and three per cent more fat than ensilage corn silage. Ton for ton, the field corn silage pro- duced slightly more milk and fat than ensiiage \corn silage, but the yield of dry matter or nutrients per acre from ensilage corn was much greater than from'field corn. For this reason, en- silage corn produced decidedly more milk and fat per acre than field corn on the dry matter basis. The increased production of green fodder per acre by ensilage- corn con— tained a large amount of water. Con- siderable additional labor was there- fore necessary to handle the increased bulk. Recognizing all of these condi- tions, the larger producing varieties of ensilage corn can be recommended for dairy farms where economy of acre- age is desired. Similar results were obtained by both the Ohio and Connecticut Agri- cultural Experiment Stations. The balanced grain mixture mentioned in- cluded ground corn, either ground cats or wheat bran, and linseed, cottonseed or soy-bean oil meal—J. W. Wilber. THE OLEO FIGHT. EPRESENTATIVES of cotton pro- ducers Who were in Washington recently in conference with, the mar- keting specialists of the department of agriculture, informed Mr. Loomis that they were sure the cotton people had no part in stirring up the present oleo controversy, and that it was started by the oleomargarine interests in an effort to defeat the proposed legisla- tion in the dairy states. Most of the cotton men now know that the real fight is against foreign oils, not be— tween American agricultural interests. Less oleomargarine was produced in 1924 than in 1923. The figures show that of both colored and uncolored oleomargarine there were produced 89,925,711 pounds in 1923, and 73,438,- 487,861 pounds. The farmer never has been shown what he can do with electricity. U11— less he can find use for from 200 to 500 kilowatt hours a month, a reasonable rate will not be possible. If the farmer is only going to light his house and barn, then we might just as well stop with the proceedings right here. A further and broader utilization of elec- tricity will be necessary before elec- trification of farms is feasible. “I have used my De Laval Milker nearly four ears and it has given perfect satis action. I have a herd of 15 Holstein cows which I take care of myself. They are averaging me 10,000 lbs. of milk and 300 bs. of butter—fat per year. If they were not well milked they could not do glisth-J. A. Gm'fith, Shefiield, ass. “I have used my De Laval Milker nearly five years and would not know What to do‘without it; should probably sell the cows. I milk from 15 to 18 cows.”——F. B. Randall, Mt. Sinai, N. Y. ll “The De Laval Milker has given the best of service and has not missed a. milking since May, 1920, and we have not had one case of udder or any other bag trouble whatever; not even as much as a cakcd quarter since we have used it. We are also using a De Laval Sepa- rator and it is giving the best of service.”—~T. J. Messinger, Colum- bus, Pa. “I have had my De Laval Milker five years and have had no trouble at all with it. My two boys, 12 and 10 years old, can milk just as well as I can with it, and I think it is the bestgon the market.”—.Mark Bogart, Columbus Grove, Ohio. Read what these I Dairymen say about the DE LAVAL MILKER after 4 years’ use . “We have used our De Laval Milker since 1921 and have not missed a day yet. It works as regular and safe and sure as a self- blnder.”—Wlll E. Blcknese, Elm- hursl, Ill. “I am satisfied with the De Laval Milkcr; it is the best milker I know of. We have had no trouble with it whatever in four years. It is easy to clean, and I like it better than any machine I ever saw. I am milking my cows up to the time they go dry.” - III. Grosser, [Wari- nette, ll’z's. “We have been using a De Laval Milkcr for the past four years and have not missed a milking so far.” —I-—C. H. Brandt, Council Blufl‘s, owa. Thousands of other De Laval Milker users are just as enthusiastic 1n their praise. If you are milking ten or more. cows by hand you can scon pay for a De Laval in time saved and extra milk of better quality produced. Sold on easy terms. Send coupon for full information. THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR (30., DEPT. 4829 lo5 B'way. New York; 29 E. Madison St.. Chicago Send me your Milkcr CI Separator D catalog (check whic ). Name .......................................... Town .......................................... State ................ R.F.D ........ No. Cows. . . . - -——-—----—l' advice FREE. Write tonight. L II You Can Stop Them Yourself AT SMALL COST :\ Ask for FREE copy of “The Cattle Specialist," our cattle paper. Answers all _ . questions asked during the past thirty years about abortion in cows. Also let us tell you how to get the “Practical Home Veterinarian”. a Live Stock Doctor Book, Without cost.Veterinary A postal will do. I. Dr. David Roberts Veterinary Co., nc., 124 Grand Ave., .\$§g:§r=§g=>i =©©§f¢ E:- \/;;_-y- 97“! ‘glpn‘ll. Waukesha, Wis. -3333.-- ,x . \.-’&‘ You can get more milk and more profit from your cows by keeping / - them comfortable and , clean with STAR Barn ' Equipment. Easy to install, has most practical fea- tures and lasts longest. In famous dairy barns every- where. Send cou- pon today for par- ticulars. — ——-——-—_-—- Hunt. Helm. Ferris 8: C0. Dept. D-54, Harvard, illinois Gentlemen: I have cows ______youn¢ stock s 5; 3331““ "‘PI horses. Please send me floor plans and other suggestions. 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This stur y tractor will cut "H00 IER SILOS" are proof against wind. flre. frost and decay. reinforced with every course of tile with galvanized steel cable. equipped with con. _tinuous doors with double seal- il clamp. Doors set flush inside wall allows even settling of ensilage. HUOSIER silos also in wood.same splendid val- ue. Territory open for good salesmen. Got our prices before buying. Hoosim BLDG. TILE a SILO COM- PANY. Dept. 31-99. Albany. Indiana "i‘i . I.-I is c; R] N DER .' in Feed Mill construction. They ‘ close to center of Sliaft;thus More our lantin and cultivating costs to the mini- gnum ldud giv‘b you an inexpensive power unit for dozens of other jobs. Plow: 7 Inches—Backs on Own Power The CENTAUR is a .ridin tractor on all Jobs. Does plowing, harrowmg suing. seedin , culti- vating, hauling, feed grinding and all ot er belt and draw bar work. 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[if 2 -, I N his new. to macabre farm iiia‘y'. produce and «how to ‘ produce it and These questions come up. nearly every day in the year and decisions must be based on a knowledge of principles and facts and not "on some simple rule of thumb. Farm economics deal with the principles one needs to understand and the information one needs to have in order to make correct decisions. Farmers who understand these princi§ ples and know how to apply them are the ones Who make the most out of farming.” . . Such is the foreword of the United. States Department of Agriculture, Mis- the .farmer._ must - decide abiding? to what to 3911 and how to sellit. His, ‘ success depends ' 'on his'making the . ' right decisions on these questions. Grgdt ‘Potéiitralzbr I. . p . y -. Hornet .. _.‘ .. in thinking. We, need a thinking and reading agricultural population." We need thinking~~and reading on- agricul- tural economic problems. , . . This little book on Practical Farm Economics contains 'only 100 pages)“: is written in a simple style and print-_ ed, on- good paper. It is easyto read. This, is a book which every farmer in the United States should own and read Carefully. Not only should the farmer read it, but 'he should reread itvmany timesandstudy it; He should discuss it' with his neighbors.’4 Com- munity Clubs should hold classesin agricultural economics and use this book as a. text. . , ‘ There are fourteen chapters. Each one could well be used-as material for study at a meeting. ‘_ A year, or even cellaneous Circular No. 32, entitled, “Practical Farm. Economics.” The aim of the writers of this little briefly the fundamentals of economics as they apply to the farm. It is rec- ognized that the job of improving mar- keting conditions, increasing net farm income, and bringing about better liv- ing conditions in the country is hamp- ered because farmers are net familiar with certain fundamentals. The fundamentals of economics are not easy to grasp. Much thought and study is necessary before these prin- ciples are fully understood. The farm- er must use his head as well as his hands, machinery, and live stock if .lie is to make a success of his business- and living. Many bulletins have been written clearly explaining many of the principles of agricultural economics. However, all of the bulletins and books written will never be of any value to the farmer unless they are read and their contents understood. The farmer of fifty years ago did not need to understand the economics of markets because he sold very little produce. Production was chiefly for the satisfaction of his own wants. Now it is different. The produce of the farmer’s field and barnyard enters into the market place and competes for a. price. If it is to bring back an ade- quate pay for its production, thought as well as brawn must be used upon the farm. It is no easy task to read and study after a hard day in the field; but time spent studying will make the efforts of the laboring hours bring a' larger reward. Farmers have many skilled men working on their problems as special- ists at the college or with the federal and state departments of agriculture. The results of these studies can reach the farmer only through extension workers or printed bulletins. The per- sonal extension work has the advan- tage of a close contact and less mental exertion on the part of the farmer to get the message. The printed bulletin can reach more people and has the ad— ded advantage of being always at hand so it may be referred to. The farmer must undergo the task of study if he is to secure the benefits which these research studies can bring. It would be much easier for him if these specialists could come to him and explain these things. This is im- possible as there are too many farm- ers and'too few workers for such a plan to be feasible. No individual is going to advance, until he learns to reason properly. The ability to ,reason and think clearly comes only after'reading and'pra'ctice two years, could be well spent in study- ing the material contained in this lit- tle book. ‘ The following table of contents shOWs the wide range of subjects treated by the writers: 1. Aims and ends in farming. 2. What it takes to make a farm bus- iness. ‘ 3. What crops to grow and what live stock to keep. What crops to grow and What live stock to keep (continued). How to make the most out of each line of production. Size of the farm business. How to get the farm work done. How farmers can get the use of land. 9. The use of credit in farming. 10. Marketing farm products. 11. What happens to farm products after they leave the farm. ~ 12. Improving the marketing system. 13. How to succeed in cooperative marketing. 14. Better living on the farm. The book should be read from the beginning and it should not be read too rapidly. If one is interested in se- curing more detailed information on any of the points discussed, he can secure other publications. There are many governmental publications on different phases of marketing, cooper— ation, community life and farm man- agement. I shall be glad to send any- one a list of available bulletins on any special subject. (Address, J. T. Hor— ner, Michigan Agricultural College. Box 905, East Lansing. Michigan). The Michigan Agricultural College is conducting research studies on some of the marketing problems of Michi- gan farmers. A bulletin on “Market- ing Michigan Potatoes” is ready for distribution, and will be sent free to anyone upon request. Michigan farmers should become readers and thinkers. This book on “Practical Farm Economics” is a, good one to start on and a good one to keep at. There are about 200,000 farmers in Michigan. If everyone of them reads and studies this book we shall have a. different type of product going to mar- ket and few mistakes in farmers’ or- ganizations within five years. This book is not free; but it can be secured for less than the cost of a pound of .cheap coffee. The price is forty cents. Send your order for U. S. Department of Agriculture, Miscel- laneous Circular No. 32, to the Super- intendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. I hope that so many of Our farmers send orders for this book that officials in Washington will wonder what kind of people we have on Michigan farms. ‘A convenient Way to ’order- is in large lots. Have the-secretary 'of your community club or cooperative " ‘ ‘ ation get a- copy for-each‘m'ember."~ 99.4535th 'IEW Fifi H P._.——'.—.—.. ' SWEET STU-En ~31“ (Continued from page 350). limbs and roots. Personally, I prefer the outside. I don’t pretend to be an old head 'at the game, but I’ve heard sugar-coated. old-timers say that it don’t make one spoonful of difference year in and year out. There isn’t no “best side," they say, and you can take it or leave it. The main thing is to haire them where you can handle them ’the fastest, for when the sap starts coming real good a fellow is busier than a centipede buying shoes, and time counts. When the holes are all made, you* put in the spiles. These are the-little metal tubes that connect the tree with the sap bucket and, when this is done, you’re ready for the heavy stud. Gathering sap is a fine job for a piano mover. I saw a picture in a bul- letin the other day where it showed some men doing their gathering with a'horse and a. stone-boat. It didn’t say where it was, but you can bet it was somewhere around Birmingham for, up here where we make it, there isn’t an animal that can get through the woods at syrup making time except the birds. No,‘we do our own gathering, and it’s one of the reasons us farmers lie so quiet at night. There’s all kinds of sap boiling re- ceptacles on the market, from dish pans to certain makes of patent con- traptions which I’ve never tried. My outfit consists of four brick walls, thir- ty inches high, with a pair of French doors at one end to shove the wood in. The root of this structure is a gal— vanized iron pan three feet wide, eight feet long and eight inches high, and will accommodate 100 gallons of sap, if it don’t leak. In conjunction with this is a couple of barrels used as storage in case a fellow don’t run out of work during the night. Boiling down is what makes syrup expensive. Most folks have got the impression that it’s just like boiling a cup of Java or a two-minute egg. Out of every fifty gallons of sap you dump in the pan, forty—nine has got to dis- appear i'ia the evaporation route. Seems like a lot of lost energy, don’t it, to pack 400 pounds of sap through snow, abround submerged stumps, across buried brush piles and over cov- ered logs and, after burning a couple cords of good wood, to carry away a scant ten pounds of syrup. I should think a delegation ought to wait on Mr. Burbank and ask him to invent some kind of a maple tree where the sap wouldn’t be all water. lV'ouldn’t it be pickings to hang a bucket on a tree in the morning and, when you went around in the evening to collect it, find a quart of nice niaple syrup that was all ready for the jug? “Finishing off” is the part I like best, and I’ll bet you do, too, especially if it pertains to this article. Vi'e do it at home on the kitchen range. “Fin- ishing off” means boiling it some more until you get it to weigh eleven pounds to the gallon. I wish I could tell you what it costs to produce a gallon. I do know, though, that if anybody but a farmer was mak- ing it it would sell for somewheres around ten dollars. If there was any easy money in it you can bet there wouldn’t be any bowling alleys—all the maple would be used for syrup. But I always like to have some around for our own use, if there's a surplus you can sell it, as I never yet heard of a timelwhen syrup flooded the market. That’s all. ‘ .LAND BANKS PASS BILLION MARK. HE total resources of the twelve mutual federal land banks have now reached the startling total of $1,- 019,709,591.82, according to Judge Chas. E. Lobdell, fiscal agent for the banks. ..,Reaching this mark put the federal land bank system among the largest and strongest. financial; organizations in the world. Nothing approaching the 7 * growthof these, banks has been achiey: ' ' ed. “Where in thefield of agricul- tural finance. Starting eight years ago with no organizations and only nine millions of capital, practically all sup- plied by the United States government, 343,947 farmers have organized into 4.643 national farm loan associations and through these into the compact organizaiton of the federal land banks. ' This is the more remarkable as the; progress of the banks was halted for i a year and a half by lawsuits with those who sought to destroy the entire system. Every piece of real estate acquired through foreclosure has been at once charged off; every installment pay— ‘ment more than ninety days past due has been charged off; the sum of $11; ~ 939,423.99 has been disbursed in divi- dends. After making these charges and disbursements, been carried to reserve and surplus and there remain $3,285,297.77 in un-‘: divided profits. Of the stock originally subscribed by the government, $7,409,470 has~already been retired and borrowing farmers' have provided new capital to the amount of $48,346,815. The income of the banks is derived from the “spread” of one per cent, per- mitted by law between the interest paid on federal land bank bonds and the loaning rate. This has been found ample to cover expenses, underwrite foreclosures, and pay reasonable divi- dends upon stock. The amortized (installment-pay- ment) loan adopted by the federal land banks has been shown to be the only sound method of farm financing. The plan is being gradually adopted by private farm loan agencies to the great benefit. of agriculture. MILK PROMOTES BETTER SCHOOL WORK. OR five months children in Milwau- kee schools were studied to learn the effect of milk upon the school work of the children. At the end of this study it was definitely concluded that the “milk ted" children were able to do better work than those not receiv- ing this food. The experimenters declared that the children grew better. maintained bet- ter health, and kept up with their class work more easily when receiving milk at home and in school, than they did when milk was withheld from their diet. Before the school milk campaign from ten to thirty-six per cent of the children were underweight. The. home specialist met the children once a week anti talked to them about milk. Each child was weighed once a month, and it was not long before the children began to gain. The “repeater,” or the child who does not make his grade, is often the child who is underweight. SinCe “re- peating” means an extra cost to the state, it is very necessary to reduce the number of underweight children. Milk drinking is thus an economical as well as a health measure. During the five months of the Mil- waukee study, seventy-three children who each had a forcnoon lunch of one cup of milk and a graham cracker and who reported that they drank from two to four cups of milk at home each day, gained an average of one and one- fourth pounds in five months. The nor- mal gain under good conditions is two and one-half pounds. GRAZING FEES REDUCED. HE resolution authorizing a reduc- tion in grazing fees on public lands as a :neans of relief to cattle owners, and a bill directing the war department to transfer 100 five-ton cat- erpillar trucks and 1,000 motor ve- hicles to the department of agriculture for use in road building, were passed. The McFadden branch banking bill, opposed by the American Farm Bureau $6,794,200 have ' Federation, went into the discardt ‘ Do This To Stop Lances From SCOURS—ABORTION RETAINED AFTERBIRTH Let Peter Shallow, of 0con- “I also used it for inflam- to, Wisconsin, tell you how he matiorrof woml; i: COWS and f . . two injections ours apart has stopped disease losses 111 did the work. I couldn’t do his herd. He used to have without it now.” the same trouble that most Money-Back Guarantee farmers have. Now he has , . There s the story of one no aborters, no COWS that farmer. Thousands have had don’t clean, no scours, none the same wonderful results. of these losses at all. Read 3-K is the greatest and safest‘ his letter. germ killer on the market. Nothing like it for scours, abortion, and retained after- birth has ever been found. It will pay you to get all the facts about: this amazing dis- ease treatment. Send the coupon now for the free bul- letins. They will save you thousands of dollars. You can get B-K from any good dealer, on our money back guarantee. Just try it at our risk. B—K Did the Work “Abortion had pretty well set in my herd of Guernsey cattle before I knew what I was up against. After losing 11 calves I got busy and bought a supply of B-K. I treated those t hat had aborted as well as those that were yet with calf. All those that were due to calve later than 100 days came 'out healthy. I know B-K did the work.” ‘_--------—--—- General Laboratories Dept. 21 K Madison, Wisconsin Please send FREE 8; POSTPAID your valuable bulletins telling how to clean up quickly in CALF SCOURS—No. 136H, RETAINED AFTERBIRTH-No. 756, ABOR- TION-No. 52K Has Never Failed “I also found B-Kthegreat- est thing out for cows that do not clean readily after calving. This is a job I always had to do by hand. Now I use B-K by ’ injecting about a gal- ' lon of water mixed Name .................................. . ...... with B-K. This has never failed.” Address ...................................... ‘_.....-.-. - -_—I- - -.-,-.—._—,- I -_—- 1. “may; - ‘5‘- ‘ ... .mmg..,usp«mmfmmr “if".iu‘ff.‘ - fitnflfnm What 1., , - Q‘.n{$‘m&’; '.1m%~n‘-‘~Ww W n, .1 fl 4? - , -. Wm» ~. fig H . 052» ‘2st cw“ \‘s 4:— - o 4M> E-B Hay Tools IvaexYo r Profit; Hay time comes at the busiest season.You must make hay when weather is right — and rush the iob. You can’t afford to take a chance with worn bay tools. E-B Hay Tools are dependable and enable you to put up hay quickly. The time and labor saved soon pay for them. '4 3: I: E. B. Osborne Mower—A simple, durable, internal gear machine that ' excels for long service. Frame is one piece. Low crank head reduces wear on knives and cutting parts. Flexible cutter bar easily raised or lowered. The 5-5 Osborne Self Dump Rake is li ht, strong and easily operated. Curved teeth It'll and carry the hay. All parts. except po e, are steel or malleable. The 5-8 Side De- (wary Rake and Teddcr can be operated either as a take or ledder by shifting a lever. E Does not shatter leaves. 3 13-3 LOADERS—The E-B Gem-less Loader is strictly a one-man machine without this. rape} or chains. Long, slow sweep does not shatter leaves. The 5-8 Cylmdef g ~Louder Will take clean from swath or double windrow. Front frame is carried on 24- Inch wheels. A well-built, sturdy loader. . Get our FREE circular telling all about 5-3 Hay 0013. And remember -— whatever farm machine you need you will find it in the 3-8 Quality Line 3 Emerson-Brantimgham Implement Co. Bulineu Founded 1 852 ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS EMERSON JIM N'I'INGHAM IMPLEMENT (20.. Rockford. "bob. Without obligating me. send me free circulars describing Cl London I U C : Cl Mower D Rake o Name-n...nun......................l-........ :Town.....................3me..........R;F.D.-~u Inmaloointemtedin............... ...... ..... J , . Official Proof . offl‘ests Back up Our Claims ‘ , Nationally recognized authorities such as: C. _ F. Bur ess Laborato- amount of zinc on Fence wrre tics, R. . Hunt Com- ‘ . . y and Indiana State These columns represent the actual amount of zrnc re. llniversity show in of. moved from one square foot of surface of three classes ficial reports that at— ented “Galvann ed” . wire has 2 to 3 times heavier _zinc coating than ordinary galvan- ized wire. Red Strand Marking You can quickl “tell" this new Square De becausethe top strand is painted red. Always look for it. It means fence made from copper- bearing steel, with the pat- ented ‘ 'Galvannealed’ ’ wire. guaranteed to far outlast any other farm fence and sold to you at no extra price. of fence wire (“Galvannealed,” Best Galvanimd and - -. ~ ordinary wire.) Many hundreds of samples ' madebycprmcrpalmanufacturersweretested by. stan ard stripping tests and carefully weighed. These columns show exactly how much more ZlnC patented “Galvannealed” wire carries than wire made by other manufacturers. No. l: “Gnlvannealed.” This column shows the actual average amount of zinc removed from one square foot of surface of “Galvannealed” wire. This column proves that "Galvannealed" wire carries almost twrce as much zinc as the best galvanized wire fence made. (See No. 2.) - o. 2: This column shows the actual avera amount of 21116 removed from the best grade - v.47 vanized fence wire. Note that there is only about one-half asmuch zrnc on the best galvanized , wrre as there is on “Galvannealed.” No. 3: Ordinary Galvanized Wire. This shows the actual average amount of zinc removed from several hundred samples of ordinary galvanized wire. Note that there is only about one-third as much zinc on ordinary wire as com- pared to “Galvannealed.” Free to Landowners (1) Cop of Official Proof of Tests; (2) Roppjs ew Calculator, answers most guestlons on_ the farm; (3) Square Deal atalog, which tells all about this supe~ rior fence—all three sent free. .. KEYSTONE STEEL & WIRE C0. 4945 Industrial Street PEORIA. ILL. «m: .4 stator?- ‘Efiffiinrifigfih‘fififlh 7- , rat-.9; “1"”4'4 , Galvifi’i’fiéd/ '- ' "flotsam . -u—ur I Will Condition a Horse or Cow in Twelve Days Put flesh on its Give it life and vigor. (‘an add fifty per cent to looks and \aluc. Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay. Send postal for free offer. .. .... .. ._. 9—, _‘ n._ 3.. ,l.—e!4;—:%i—.%.T-iwe.., Pa y_;l. . 34-31:: Freight—7;, bones. 1 Peerless Prices drop again—and P~ M. FAUST, BRYN MAWR’ PA' wn PAY ALL FREIGHTl Peerless gualityltgie samePBetiore yam buy, grit]: nrour - e eress 1 oo ' DON’T CUT OUT of Fence, [£ng Wlere, Steel gigs? Gates, Roofin and Paints l Just out, Send for it today. .‘ave money. PEERLESS WIRE & FENCE C0.. ’Dept. 7802 Cleveland. Ohio A Shoe Boil,Capped V [lock or Bursitis FOR AiB‘soRBINr—z; vino: Marylouwarp"; Buy Now at Wholesale Crop Short. We expect higher later, We bought early big aeoc _s on lower markets. Our prices amazingly low. We can save gen money on Alfalfa. Tlmoth west Clover , and other old Seeds. Write today for free samples and big Seed Guido II-norlcan Flold Seed Co. Dept. gal 3 Chlcago. llllnolo For your teat and a p p r o v a I. We want you to up. 0 u r blgb-teatrna' seeds and our low prices before you good- will reduce them and leave no blemishes. Stops lameness promptly. Does not blis- ter or remove the hair, and horse can be worked. $2. 50 abottlc delivered. BOOKS ll tree. ABSORBINE. JR.. for mankind. the antiseptic l unlment for Bella. Bruises. Sores. Swellinzs. VaricorchinI. l Allan Pain and Inflammation. Price 81.25 a bottle at din;- am or delivered. Will tell you more if you write. W. F. YOUNG, mc., 46‘8 Liman St, Springfield, Mass. GET IT FROM THE 4— , r ks. Ed ards, «genera/em 3.,aa...,mn.,..y.. ,1? x, . 1 .‘gfiflgflh‘ll “Saved 15c to . "' 20¢ a Rod.” Cutyour own fence costs. Buy direct from us at Lowest _Fac- tory Prices. We Pa the Freight. Write for Free Catalog of 4 arm, Poultry, Lawn Fence, Barbed Wire, Gates, Posts. ¢ Bog, Poultry 8 Field Fence at America’s Lowest Prices Here’s your chance to buy strong, heavily gal: vanized hog, poultry and field fencing at a big saving. A timely purchase from one of America's leading fencing factories brought us a large ( uantity at big rice reductions from the regular markets. 1 kinds in all heights to choose from. Buy Liberally NOW! No. "6-104. This bargain will give you someidea of the wonderful values now ready for quick delivery in our big com lete stock. 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HARIS BROTHESR C0. . am. and Iron Stt., carcaco, ILL. 00 few men start 111.. purebred stock raising for the love' of the . game, and, unless one does so start, he is more than likely to be thrown off the track as soon as a. de- pression comes in his class of stock. There are throughout the country men, however, in the breeding business who. have made this a life work and study. We generally call the man who rais- es pure-bred» stock a. stock breeder. We should not use this term, however, unless he is a. real breeder. The term breeder applies only to the man who makes a study and life work of his business. For this reason no great im- provement in any class of pure-bred stock has been made in the last twen- ty-five or thirty years. Occasionally we find a. man who makes a real study of his work in animal breeding and then we get improvement. Such men are the ones who not only reap a. re- ward in the satisfaction of having done a. skillful piece of work, but also in the substantial returns he received for this better stock from the other fellows who see what he has done but who do not stop to find out how he does it. Inbreeding Did it. This brings me to what I really want to say. The men who have made real improvements in the various breeds have done so by adhering close- ly to systems of close—line or inbreed- ing. Of course, I realize that when I introduce the subject of inbreeding the great majority of stock men will at once go up in the air. VV‘e have been taught for time without limit, that we must not inbreed, that it is contrary to all laws of nature, that it does more harm than it can possibly do good, that it emphasizes weak points in both ancestors, that it is destructive to con- stitution, tends to emphasize sterility, and so on, and so on, and so on, and on. Now, the fact is, every contention mentioned above is just plain bosh. No breed of any merit, whether it be chickens, hogs, sheep or what not, which has been developed in compar- atively recent times,” but what has been developed by selection to type and close inbreeding to fix the type. Now, if a breed has been developed and brought to a high standard of ex- cellence in a, comparatively short time by inbreeding, why should we hesitate to continue this system to produce still better results? I believe it is per- fectly safe in declaring that deteriora- tion in pure-bred stock has been al- most universally due to mixed strain or cross—breeding instead of inbreeding. Startling Results by Cross-breeding Note how many times we have seen men go out and buy the best they could get here and there from the var- ious breeders without giving close at- tention to the blood lines they were introducing into their herds or flocks. And, in spite of the fact that they bought therbest money could buy, they would never be able to produce any reasonable number of animals equal to, let alone superior to, their founda- tion stock. It is the man behind the herd or flock who is responsible for the improvements of the same; and that man has to be a student of blood lines and of the problem of close mat- ings to secure uniform results and pre- . potency of ofispring. Breeders have at various times pro- duced startling results by cross-breed- ing, but where they got one outstand- ing individual, they got any number of commonplace, if not inferior, individ- uals. On the other hand, the breeder who breeds closely to line produces uniformly good stuff that in turn Will be impressive where ever usedvin oth- er flocks or herds. , We have a. few striking examples in the animal world where men are doing just this thing. N. H. Gentry, of Se ive «:I-vtoc W M file’Real Breeder ' ‘ By E. M. Moore I dolls, Mo., for around fifty years has bred one . strain of Berkshire hogs. Berkshire hog men take their hats off whenever they hear the name of N. H. Gentry. Todd, of Ohio, made a new breed ofhogs cut of the Chester White and he did ». it by close line and in- breeding. Certain Shorthorn breeders have made great improvement in the breed by this same system of breed- ing. Bates, Booth, Cruicksha‘nk and others used this same idea, and the Shorthorn breed was made everlast- ingly better thereby. Butter, of Scot- land, the king of Shropshire breeders, does not think of introducing strange blood into his flock, and the breeders the world over go to him for their great show as well as breeding stock. Great Britain has recently recognized this idea. in breeding by awarding Mr. Buttar the trophy for being the great- est Shropshire breeder in ' Great Britain. What Some Breeders Have Done. Baron Van Hormeyer, Germany, pro- duced a practically new type of Ram- bouillet sheep by the same system, and the breeders in this country who have kept this strain of the Rambouillet pure by line and inbreeding, are pro- ducing the highest class and most pre- potent type of the Rambouilletrbreed. Over one hundred years ago Stephen Atwood bought one imported Spanish Merino ewe. From that ewe he raised a. flock of sheep which were close line and inbred. This flock became the nucleus of many other flocks in the forties and fifties and the flocks bred along this same line made wonderful improvements in a. short time. When disaster overtook the sheep industry in this country many of their flocks went out of existence. One flock in Michigan held through all these cata~ clyamic times. In spite of the fact that much pressure was brought to bear upon the owner of this flock to introduce strange blood, he adhered to his one line of breeding, keeping his pedigrees straight back to the original Atwood flock for twenty—five or more generations; and, without any extra effort to market his stock, the breed- ers and exhibitions have had their eyes drawn to this man’s sheep and, considering the size of his flock, he has been supplying these other fellows with more high—class breeding and ex- hibition stock than any other breeder in the United States, although many of the other breeders have secured the country and spent money freely to so cure fresh blood and superior stock with which to“ build up their flocks. Still, this man, R. D. Stephens, of Michigan, has the center of the stage in American Merino production. Why? Because he inbreeds. So we might go on, if time and‘ space would permit, and show by concrete proof that the man who makes consistent and lasting improvement in any breed or class of stock does so very largely by following, closely and intelligently line and in breeding. The younger breeders of today must recognize this principle, if they would, hope to make a real success in their breeding endeavors. By intelligent combinations of desirable types of the same line of breeding can the breeds be made more stable and satisfactorily, prepotent. to the whole problem. The startling product of cross—breeding is practically never able to reproduce itself or ill make any lasting improvements; whih the plainer individual bred along in- tensive lines is practically sure in make great improvement wherever ia- telligently used. Around ten million dollars have been invested in fox farming in Michigan. the leading state of the Union in that industry. This latter idea is the he: l _.——-—_ T Y‘I'F'WB-T FW‘D‘HV‘WlWCPHWH' w—muvvn“: .- .1 I‘ H. '7 T‘ the annual meetin igan Sheep Breeders’ and Feeders’ _ both lamb feeders and tired pounds of beans sold or bought. dons and shoulders seem to be affect- Association, ~1 A - “if”? t t b ti EAN grower-sate keeniyinterested ;.da%a;r s in er, 0 “no three mes in the adrerfi'ans'fund t0 beraised ‘Foot Lamenesd—During the past g‘ of theMiCh- jointly by growers and dealers con- seven or eight months my horse has tribufing one cent each for every hun— been sure in the front feet, the ten' ed. C. D. P., Hardwood, Mich—Chron- sheep breeders were present in good On February 25 the total contributions ic soreness of this kind is very often numbers. forwarded to F. W. Merrick, custodian incurable. Apply one part kerosene, President C. E. Burtless, of Adrian, of the funds, amounted to $4,819.62. ten parts vaseline t0 hOOfS daily. Give -in opening, showed how the embargo The following list made public at the one dram 0f sodium salicylate in 80ft- on poultry in New York had made recent meeting of growers at Saginaw, (feed two or three times a day. Bitter Milk.—Our Jersey cow gives Michigan lamb feeders thousands of gives the location, name of firm, and bitter milk, the strainer contains many dollars by its. influence in raising the number of months covered by the re- small lumps, but the cow seemsheal- fat lamb market. He predicted a high mittan'ces from each contributing com- thy. B. P- M., Benton Harbor, M1011— lamb market for at least two or three pany. This list includes all who had Change her feed, apply camphorated oil to udder daily, give her one ounce more years, though probably not so sent in remittances previous to the of bicarbonate of soda and a teaspoon high as this year, in spite of western breeders holding back ewe lambs. Out of ninety-one cars he has handled this year they were straight wethers, with the ewe lambs presumably held back for breeders. E G. Read spoke on “Forecasting the Market and Selling Lambs.” He quoted experience to show that mar- kets are hard to predict, but gave out some sound principles for making your best guess in a practical way based on available supply and the probable de- mand. ende he said he has had only two years on the wrong side of the ledger. He explained his successful selling through the uniformity and condition of his lambs and stated that they must be fat to top the market, but must not be too heavy. By buying and selecting his own. lambs he is able to accomplish this. He has sold twenty-three decks of lambs this year that averaged eight- een cents, with the earliest one as low as fifteen and one-half cents. L. Whitney Watkins, commissioner of agriculture, explained regulations for interstate shipment of feeder lambs and considerable discussion followed regarding the feeding in transit rule whereby Michigan feeders can take ad— vantage of the long haul rate from western points to eastern markets af- ter having fattened the lambs. He stated that the sheep industry of Mich- igan is more important than most peo- ple realize. Michigan ranks twelfth in total number of sheep, and seventh in DUre-bred sheep. R. C. Blank, of Perrinton, talked on “Producing Lambs in Michigan,” and was followed by discussions of many points that make up good sheep hus- bandry. Plans proposed for next year’s meeting include an all—day session and a. banquet in the evening.——V. A. F. FARM BUILDINGS OF POLES. HE Michigan Agricultural College, Extension Division, some time ago published a bulletin entitled, “Utilizing Poles and Timber in Farm Buildings.” This bulletin has been prepared by Mr. VGeorge Amundsen, of the Upper Peninsula division of the extension service of the college and is based on his study of local conditions. Mr. Amundson makes the point that northern farmers not infrequently use their capital to purchase building ma- terial when much of what is required could be secured from the, farm itself, thus saving the farmer’s capital for other uses. The suggestions which are made for the utilizing of farm timber and poles are all based upon observa- tions of. farm practices in the cut—over region of Michigan. ‘ When a cut-over farm is about to be opened in the cut-over region, says Mr. Amundsen, the first thing is to made a survey of the timber resources of the farm to determine what is marketable, What should be left for the farm wood- lot and what can be salvaged and used for temporary farm buildings. The first house of the settler will probably be of logs and Mr. Amundsen gives photographs and suggestions, based upon local experience, as to the construction of such a house. For tem- porary purposes farm buildings may be built of poles rather than logs. These are placed vertically and can be erectedatless cost of time and labor. Out of forty years of experi- four. of salt in feed twice daily. Albion, F. E. Nowlin & 00., two. Sore Eyes—I have a small flock of Auburn, Auburn Elev. 00., four. sheep. some of them have sore eyes. Ba%, Sebewaing Co-op. Ass’n., four, Have been feeding ensilage twice 3. Ba , S. Cushman & Son, four. day. Would this cause the sheep to Boyne City, Boyne City Mill, two. have sore eyes? T- D. R-. TllStiIl. Cass City, Cass City Grain 00., four. Mich—If your sheep are seemingly Cedar Springs, E. A. Remer & Sons, healthy and thriving, I do not believe three. - . feeding them ensilage should cause Charlotte, Farmers’ Elev. 00., four. them to suffer from sore eyes. Dissolve Clare, Chatterton & Son, one—half. a teaspoonful of boric acid in quarter Corunna, Farmers’ Co—op. Elev., one. pint of clean tepid water and With a Croswell, Croswell Co—op. Elev., two. dropper. drop some into eyes once or Croswell, Michigan Bean 00., four. tW1ce a day. EXPOSUI‘G may be the Devlin, Chatterton & Son, one-half. cause. Keep their bowels open by Dewitt, Christian Breisch & 00., feeding some roots, also allow them to take exercise. Eaton Rapids, Crane & Crane, 0116- Sarcoma—I have a twelve-year—old Eden, 0- {X- DaVle 101"- mare, with a big swelling on top of E1818. E1818 Elev. Co. her shoulder. Last summer while Evart, Evart Mllllng C0-. three. working her, pus developed and I lanc- Farwell, Mlchigan Bean 00-. four. ed it. The wound soon healed but a Fenton, Michigan Bean Co. four. big bunch remains. It is impossible Fenwick, F9nW1,Ck Elev. 00-, £01113 to fit collar to her. We have no veter- Flushing, Flushing Elev. 00-. one and iarian near here. A. S. G., Roscom- one~half. . mon, Mich—Apply one part red iodide Fowler, Sturgls Brothers, 0118 and of mercury and six parts of lard every one-halt. week. Fowlenille, E. W. Burkhalt & Sons, Snagged.—I have a mare five years four. . . . . .‘ old that stepped on an iron pm; this Fowleix 1118’ happened nine weeks ago. The wound first of February: Fowlerville Farmers’ Co—op., two. a . Moog-.15 if a mixed thv "consuls ' nominal-nu? Bull. Bil va- Kins 0 Bon Ayn Haven, ' ' . Young Bulls up to 8 manh- Qualhy Holstems of age. Good Individuals and Well Bred. at from $50 to 375. according to can I. M. SHORMAN, Fowlerville. Mich. Q llOlSIElll or GUERNSEY ggé‘ygit‘,“’:.,;g";:§3,gl§: mant. Edcewood Dairy Farms. Whitewater. ch. Registered Hereford: $3,311.93, 22'1”: “$3.133; CALHOUN. Branch 00.. Bronson, Mich- ‘ ‘ ‘ Our bulls of service- Fmancnal King Jerseys ab], m a... an ,0", 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. Bulls ready for Jersey, For sale also: few females. mm B. of M. dams. Accredited herd. South a Park". R. D. No. 4. Howell. Mich. 15 Cows, 4 bulls from B. of M. Cows. Chance to select from herd of 70. Some fresh. mum bred for fall fraheninu. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersvino. Mich. TW pure-bred Jersey bulls. 5 months old. from 0 producing cows. Tonnenwr min. 835 Ind 840. (I. W. MANTLE, Vandalla, Mlch. MILKING SHORTHORNSl Good individuals. Best milking inheritance Both sex. All ages. GEO. T. FULLER, R. I0, Battle Creek. Mich. ELM ”w“ SHOHIHOB" 0n? ‘bull calf“?l nfiolilfthfll ows a e era. HARRY CROSBY, Grand Elan? Alien. Shorthoms Best of quality and breeding. Bulls. cows and heifers for sale. BI DWELL STOCK FARM, Box D, Tecumseh. Mich. Shorthorns For Sale both sexes. Barr 8.. Curtiu, South Bay City, Mich. . . . n . Milking Shorthom Bulls $32,, 3:?” Wm; WASTA HUBER, Gladwin, Michigan. both sexes. Federal ac- e-r POHBd ShOl‘lhOI’flS credited H d. PAUL QUACK, R. 2, Sault Ste. Marie, Mlch. Red Polled Cattle an sits; “sits: DON P. CARR, Homer. Mich. 4 yrs. 0.1:“? May. 8100. is. 1'. BATES. n. I. New) Gera, Charles Wolohan, one. Gladwin, Charles Wolohan, two. Greenleaf, Cass City Grain, three. Harbor Beach, Huron Mill, one. Hemlock, Charles W'olohan, three. Henderson, Henderson Coop. Elev. 00., four. Holly, Holly Grain and Prod, four. lmlay City, Lewis Steele, two. Ithaca, Ithaca Gleaners’ & Farmers’ Elevator 00., one. Kirby, Albert Todd 00., one. Lansing, Christian Breisch & 00., four. Lansing, Isbell Brown 00., four. Lennox, Lennox Elev. 00., four. Marlette, Mariette Farmers’ Co-op. ~Elev., one. Marshall, Farmers’ Elev. (30., two. Midland, Orr Bean & Grain 00., four. Midland, Chatterton & Son, one-half. Mikado, Michigan Bean 00., four. Millington, Sioux City Seed, two. Mt. Pleasant, Chatterton & Son. one- half. Morris, Morris Bean & Grain Co., two. ' Owendale, Michigan Bean Co., four. Owosso, L. C. Hall, two. Owosso, Isbell Wholesale Store, one. Perry, H. Starks 00., one. Pompeii, Chatterton & Son, one-half. Prescott, Prescott Grain 00.; one. Richville, Richard Hoerlein, three. Sebewaing, John C. Liken, four. Shiloh, Shiloh Elev. 00., four. Snover, Snover Co-op. Elev. Co., one. Traverse City, Traverse City Mill, four. Unionville, Unionville Mill, two. Weidman, Holmes Milling 00., one. Whittemore, Iosco Elev. 00., one. VVhittemore, W'hittemore Elev C0,, wo. VVilliamsto'h, O. D. Corwin, four. Wimmmmmmmmmmmummng % Veterinary. IWWWWIHMWWlllllfllllllmllllfllllflllllfllllllfl CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR. Advice through this column is given free to our aubucrlb en. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of each case and give. name and address of the writer. Initial» only are published. thn a reply by mail in requested the cervice becomes private practice and $1 must be encloced. 4 E E E a a l: Weakness—I have a mare twenty- four years old that does not seem to be. able to retain the urine; water drips from her, keeping her tail and legs Wet all the time, but seems to eat well. H., Traverse City, Mich.- Very little can be done for your mare. Try giving her 30 drops of fluid ex— tract of nux vomica and a tablespoon- ful of baking soda in drinking water three times a day. If she is thin, in- crease her feed. Congestion—My three-year-old cow came fresh January 26. She gave from 18 to 20 pounds of milk, but now she only gives from 14 to 16‘ pounds. There is a soft bunch under belly back is healed, but mare is thin. E. L., Gladwin, Mich—Give her a half dram of fluid extract of nux vomica, three drams of Fowler’s solution at a. dose in feed or in drinking water two or three times a. day. Increase her grain ration. - Oats SENSAT I ON__0ne.of the most Dro- ductive ‘oats in culti- vation. 16 Bushcls and upward per acre are frequent. with large white meaty grains weighing 44-4n lbs. per measured bushel of the highest quality. Sccd furnished as low as 750 per bushel in quantitics. You should by all means try these cats. Scnd for sample and circular. Theo. Burt & Sons, Box 175, Melrose, 0 BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us Twelve Days before date of publication ' Aberdeen—Angus, six bulls from RegIStered eight to sixteen months. lame and growthy. Price reasonable. F. l. WILBER. Clio, Mich. 0 Re :stered Guernseys LONE P RANGER our new Herd SIRE has a Dam with an A. R. 0. record 936 fut. When in the market for better Guemseys. writs GILMORE sacs... Camden, Mich: .l. W. WILLIAMS. No. Adams. Much. ' Two choice young Reg‘Stered Guernsey S bulls 0f serviceable age. sired by a grandson of Imp. King of the May. and from good producing dams. Write WM. 8. ORMSTON &. SON, R. 8. St. Johns, Mich. Registered Guernsey bull, seven For sale months, $125. Champion stock breeding. Particulars apply W. F. EVANS. Quarton Road. R. 2. Blrminaham, Mich. swinging cows. bred Reg-Guernseys For Sale We... Buu calves. W. W. BURDICK. Williamnton. Mich. ' bull and heifer calves. May Raglslered Guernsey n... ..-......n... A. R. m- ords. Walnut Hill Farm, Milford, Michigan. T. B. Tested, five years old. ll‘mu‘ Reg' Guernsey Bundaukhlcrs with records. Price 8150. HILDRETH &. LEE, Bailey, Mich. HOGS DUROC SOWS Good yearling sows bred to Michigan's Grand Cham- pion Boar, at $65. Growthy gilts of approved type. sin-d by above boar and bred to a Super Colonel boar. at $50 to $70. These are registered and guar— anteed to please. Lakefleld Farm, Clarkston. Mich. for sale. Type and qual- nunoc JERSEY SWlNE ity our aim. Write your wants. W. E. BARTLEY. Alma. Mich. BRED SOWS ALL offering fall pigs. shlppcd. (‘_ 0. I), DORR. Clinton, Mich. ‘ some due to furrow RegIStered 0- l- C- SOWS soon, others later. Gills, yea-rungs and 2-year-old. Also boars of all ages. All stock on approval. Register frce. FRED W. KENNEDY, R. 2, Plymouth, Mich. SOLD ALBERT 0 I C? ’l‘cn line gills m fan-ow in April. and ' 0 8- six choice fall boar pigs. Cloverleaf Stock Farm. R. l, Monroe, Mich. Francisco Farm Poland Chinas Now offering some wonderful bred gills. granddaugh- ters of National Grand (‘hampionfiat prices you can pay. P. P. POPE, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Spotted Poland China SALE 40 head. March 19111. Those glits are by Grand (‘hampiou boar and matcd to Leopard lmprover. Jr. Four fall boars. OSCAR VOELKER, Pigeon, Mich. Big Type Poland Chinas Choice gilts bred for Mar. & April fax-row. for sale. WESLEY HILE, Ionia, Mich. ' either sex. by the great Bear. The Fall Plgs Wolverine. Priced reasonable. Best of dams. W. E. Livingston, Parma. Mich. Large Type Poland Chinas either F0 r 5 3'9 sex. Also Brown Swiss Bulls. A. A. FELDKAMP. Manchester, Mich. - nice spring and fall Bears. Hampshnres For Sale on... bred an... 12th year. JOHN W. SNYDER. R. 4. St. Johnc. Mich. x SHEEP - for sale. extra good Breedm Ewes you... Delaines. v. s. FURNISS, ashville, Mich. HORSES PONTIAC Pontiac State Hospital Offers the famous Pontiac blood lines No better guarantee of production. The old reliable Pontiac strain Is known the country over As the standard for Holsteins Combining quality and performance. Have you a. Pontiac in your hard? Ono trial will convince you. Let us send you a good Pontiac bull. Several flne prospects to choose from. They are well grown and Excellent individuals, guaranteed In every way. Pontiac prices have Never been more reasonable. good for Pontiac pedigrees. .. Bureau of ”“3"” Animal Industry CPI'I'II. Dept. C Lansing, Michigan C , B For Sale Elli (filliffl. 01;:st “d near the udder, but the cow is not on! M“ Rose Breeding. JOHN EBELS. R. 2. Holland. Mich. F o R S A L E One Registered Per. cheron Stallion, four years old. Weight 1.80” lbs. well broke and nice to handle. Price right. E. A. ROHLFS, Akron. Mich. BOX 5. R F- D'. NO. 3' 1 Percheron Stallion. 3 years old, For Sale of The Ton Type. E. R. Van Vollenburc, Milan, Mich. Strawberr Roan Bel ian Stallion “‘1' ”3“: 4 "em lbs. HER AN KOHgER, R. 2. Clibl’g.n,“filiihhfi ”00 COATS FOR SALE: Genuine Milch Goats fifteen grade Tog does from 1 to 4 years old, all bred to pure-bred Toggenberg buck. Due to freshen in March. April and May. Price $25 apiece EARL WHITE. Village Farm, Arcade, N. Y. MICHIGAN FARMER Classified Liners bring results. They cost little. ~ r 5 FflTngxfl-kv > .v LWWJ‘I.” 1.- “Warsaw; .... ‘- ,... .«wmf . 'f‘ i» i t i ~s. ,. i, l E GRAIN QUOTATIONS Tuesday, March 10. Whe t . a . Detroit.—-No. 1 red $1.91; No. 2 red $1.38; No. 2 white $1.91; No. 2 mixed ' Chicago.—May 1.87%@1.87%; July 3162254 @1.641/2; September $1.52%@ ' 'To‘l‘edor—VVheat $1.911,§@1-.921;é. Corn. Detroit—No. 3 yellow $1.25; No. 4 yellow $1.20; No. 5 yellow $1.15. Chicago—May $1.30%@1.30%; July 31.32%; September $1.33%@1.33%. Oats. Detroit.-.—No. 2 white at 570; No. 3 . white 560. ' Chicago—May at 50%@51; July at 52350; September 52%0. ' Rye. Chicago.——May $1.52; July $13714); September $1.33. Detroit—No. 2, $1.46. Toledo—$1.43. Beans. Detroit—Immediate shipment $6 per cwt. Chicago.——Navy, choice $6.65@6.75; red kidneys $10@10.50. New York—Choice pea at $7627.25; red kidneys $10.25@10.50. Barle . 9 Detroit.—Malting £1.05; feeding at 80. and prompt Buckwheat. Detroit.——$2.10@2.15. Seeds. Detroit—Prime red clover cash at $18.05; alsike $13.50; timothy $2.95. Hay. Detroit—No. 1 timothy at $16(¢?/17; standard and light mixed at $15@16; No. 2 timothy at $14@15; No. 1' 010-- ver and No. 1 clover mixed $14@15; wheat and oat straw $10.50@11; rye straw $12.50@13. Feeds. Detroit.—~Bran at $32; standard middlings at $33; fine middlings $39; cracked corn $57; coarse cornmeal at $55; chop $41. Apples. Chicago prices on apples: Northern Spies at $9.00 per bbl; Baldwins at $7.50; Jonathans $9.50 bbl; Kings at $6.50@7; Greenings $7@7.50 bbl; Wag- eners $5.25@5.50 bbl; Grimes $5.50@ 5.75; Starks $6.50; Ben Davis $6.25. WHEAT The advance in wheat prices practi- cally up to the former high point of the year failed to hold. Around the $2 level, demand diminishes and own- ers show willingness to sell. This is a rather strong hint that $2 discounts fully the strong statistical position. While a tendency to exaggerate the facts in the case can be seen in quar- ters strongly allied with the bull side of the market, developments of the last week indicated an even’ closer adjust- ment of world supply to demand than hitherto. Estimates of foreign needs have been revised upward, drouth in India has reduced her probable export- able surplus, crop damage was report- ed in this country and farm reserves appear to be quite small. The weak- ness of the market in the face of such things is significant. RYE The rye market fell considerably short of the January high point on the bulge early last week and has had a, sharp break along with wheat. Export sales have been few and the clear- ances have not reflected the large sales reported a month to six weeks ago. The visible s‘upply remains of record size at 23,000,000 bushels and practically all of it is available for ex- port. Clearances are averaging less than 500,000 bushels a week, which is much less than is needed to dispose of our surplus before new crop. CORN The corn market has had another sinking spell. Primary receipts have increased as there is a good deal of low grade corn which holders are anx- ious to dispose of before it gets-out of condition. The visible supply .18 still increasing gradually. Demand is qu1t_e narrow, with industries curtailing their purchases again last week. Unofl‘iCial estimates on farm reserves range from 778,000,000 to 820,000,000 bushels. This means that consumption during the winter was the smallest of recent years but in spite of this economy, the supply to carry over until next fall is extremely light. Feeders ................. ., .w. {I " ' .' .. . ~ \T .. __ , ., . . OATS The oats market has kept withina narrow range in contrast with the wide swings in'ether grains. Receipts are liberal, the visible supply enor- mous and the demand rather indiffer- ent, but the price already is low. Esti- mates of farm reserves vary from 503,- 000,000 to 536,000,000 bushels against the official estimate' of 447,000,000 bushels last year. These figures indi- cate unusually heavy farm consump- tion of oats last fall and winter, but there is much more left than is usually consumed from March until the new crop is harvested. SEEDS Spring demand for, seed is being de- layed by recent drops in temperature. Trading has been dull and prices last week were irregularly lower. Ofl’er— ing's from the producer have fallen off materially and stocks of seed still in shippers’ and farmers’ hands aresmall so that when spring buying starts in earnest, prices probably will advance. Demand for sweet clover, alfalfa, mil- let, sudan grass, sorghum and seed corn is expected to be about the same as last year, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Higher prices for red clover, timothy, cow- peas and soy-beans will reduce the de- mand for these seeds. Alsike clover demand is expected to be larger than last year. FEEDS The feed market strengthened last week. Prices were unchanged with a few advances scored in some cases. The strength in grain markets was a. factor, but present feed prices are be- lieved to largely discount the liberal offerings and light demand, so that firmer prices are reasonable. HAY The hay market is still depressed by abundant supplies of low grades which are almost unsalable. Top grades find a slightly better sale although demand generally is dull. Alfalfa prices were unchanged last week under improved buying from feeders and the south. Timothy prices declined but buying was only moderately stimulated by the price concessions. Demand for hay will be further curtailed 'by any favor- able weather and improved &rospects of early pasturage 1n the sou . , POULTRY AND EGGS Egg prices declined again last week. The drift toward a storage level dur- ing the past‘month has been without the drastic breaks .such as frequently . accompany the transition to spring price levels. The consumptive demand has expanded along with supplies and only a'fraction of the demand during February was supplied with storage eggs. Prices in the country have fall- en relatively faster than in distributing markets but the decline is not over with in either. Receipts of eggs at the four leading markets during Feb- ruary were 18 per cent larger than in the same month last year. March pro- duction likewise will probably surpass a year ago. - - Chicago._——Eggs, miscellaneous 26% @27c; dirties 25140; checks 241/20; fresh firsts 27 1A30; ordinary firsts at 251,50@26c. 'Live poultry, hens 260; springers 300; roosters 18c; ducks at; 270; geese 14c; turkeys 250. Detroit—Eggs, fresh candled and graded 28@28%c. Live poultry, heavy springers 310; light springers at 27c; heavy hens 270; light hens 27c; roost- ers 180; geese 18@200; ducks 32@33c; turkeys 350. BUTTER Butter prices scored the substantial advance of six cents last week. The strength was due to light receipts of fresh butter, the fact that production is being curtailed by high priced feeds and to, the more confident tone which has developed with the imprOved sta- tistical position. The recent higher domestic markets make Canadian but- ter on a more competitive basis, but extensive imports of foreign butter are still remote. Storage stocks at the four leading markets were reduced 8,- 238,494 pounds during February, com- pared with 2,232,634 pounds in Febru- ary, 1924. With the trade shifting more and more to fresh butter, March Withdrawals may not continue ta the same rate. Prices on 92-score creamery were: Chicago 481/20; New York 48%,0. In ' Live Stock Market Service I Tuesday CHICAGO Hogs. Receipts 22,000. Market very slow, mostly steady to 15c lower. Early tops $14; bulk 190 to 275-lb. average $13.75 @1390; 140 to 175-lb. average mostly $13.25GD13.65; bulk packing sows $12.65 @1280; pigs around 250 lower; bulk strong weight $12.75@13; big packers bidding 250 lower. Cattle. Receipts 9,000. Best steers and yearlings strong, wholly steady; tops heavy steers, early, $11.25; several loads $10.40@11; quality mostly medi- um; fat she stock dull, about steady; bulls weak; little decline; bulk to packers $11@ 12.50; outsiders up to $13.50; stockers and feeders active and firm. Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 15,000. Market very slow. Most bids on fat lambs weak, at late Monday 600@$1 decline. Choice handy weights bid $17.50; good to choice 90 to 94-lb. weight bid $15.75@16.25; fat lambs up to $17.25; fat sheep steady; feeding lambs 25@500 lower; early bulk $17@17.25. DETROIT Cattle. Receipts 272. Market is strong and slow, steady. Good to choice yearlings dry-fed $ Best heavy steers, dry—fed.. Handyweight butchers . .. Mixed steers and/ heifers Handy light butchers Light butchers .......... Best cows ....... . . . Butcher cows Cutters Choice bulls Heavy bologna bulls stockbulls'IOQOOOOOOOIOO DO Q0101 seeswweeseesws ONN’OOO‘I OU'IUIOOOUI ©©©©®©©©© assesses cousin-4449010! ocmmmmmooo OOU‘ON OOOOO‘I ©®©®® «asses NOON}! MOCO veal calves steady with. March 10. Stockers ................ 5.25@ 6.50 Milkers .................. 45.00@70.00 Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 728. Market is 25c lower and slow. Best lambs .............. $ . Fair to good sheep ....... 16.00@16.75 Light to common ....... 9.00@13.75 Yearlings ............... 13.25@13.75 Fair to good sheep ....... 8.00@ 9.00 Culls and common ....... 4.00@ 6.25 Buck lambs . . . .; ........ 7.00@16.00 Veal Calves. Receipts 601. Market $1 lower. Best ..................... $14.00@14.50 Others .................. 5.00@13.00 ‘ Hogs. Receipts 1,334. Market 150 lower. Mixed hogs, heavy y’rkrs.$ 1325 Pigs ................... . 14.00 13.75 12.00 6.50 Little yorkers Roughs ..... . ...... Stags .............. BUFFALO Hogs. Receipts 2,660. Market is closing steady. Heavy sold at $14.40; medium at $12.10@12.25; light $14.25@14.40; light lights $13.75@14.25; pigs $15@ 15.75; packing sows and roughs at $12 @1225. Cattle. Receipts 25. Market steady. Steers from 1,100 lbs. up $8.50@10.85; steers 1,100 lbs. down $6.50@10.75; load of yearlings at $10.50; heifers at $5.50@ 8.50; cows $2@6; bulls $4@5.75; ask- ing $10 for loads of steers. Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 2,800. Tops $17.75; culls at $17 down; yearlings $14.50; wethers $11@12; ewes $9.50@10.50. ' Calves. Receipts 400. Tops at $14.50; culls $12 down. ) .uary 1, 1923. Detroit fresh creamery in',tiabs' See for 39@441;§c. ~ ' POTATOES Potato, prices were irregular last week. Eastern markets as well as Chi-V, cago were lower, but some southWests. . ern markets reported advances of 15 , @250' per 100 pounds; Carlot ship- ments decreased again and were more than 2,000 cars less than during the same period ‘a year ago. Potato hold- ings are liberal, however, according to official estimates as of January 1. Mer- chantable stock remaining in the sur- plus producing late potato states on. that date totaled 105 701,000 bushels as compared with 98, 52,000 the year. before and 118,152,000 bushels. on Jan- . Total January holdings, including 20,000,000 bushels of mer- chantable‘ potatoes remaining in the twelve “deficient” states, were more than 15,000,000 bushels more than in: 1924. Northern round whites, U. S. No. 1 are quoted at $1601.10 per 100, pounds in the Chicago carlot market. APPLES Apple prices were unchanged last‘ week. Shipments of boxed apples were slightly larger, but the gain was offset by a decline in the barreledr apple movement Illinois A—2-inch extra. fancy Willow Twigs were unchanged at $8.50@9. ' Michigan Aszifi-inch R. L Greenings were quoted at 7@7.50. . WOOL The wool market is highly irregular. with wide differences shown in the prices asked by different dealers. Since the recent decline, the market has not settled to any well established trading basis, with some holders unwilling to reduce asking prices. Mills are buying sparingly, although the goods trade seems to have improved slightly. Con- tracting wool in the west has practi- cally ceased. A little Ohio delaine wool is said to have been bought for. future shipments at 550. ‘ DETROIT CITY MARKET; Warmer weather coupled with more“ active buying served to make offerings liberal. Apples had ready sale. The demand for carrots, cabbage and beets was fair. The demand for horseradish" was stronger. Potatoes were moder- ate sellers. Live poultry was in ready demand, but the heavy offerings of eggs were slow selling at thirty cents a dozen wholesale, and 35@400 a dozen‘ retail. The small offerings of veal had ready sale at 18@190 a pound. Apples $1.25/«"4 bu; beets 75@90¢ bu; cabbage 75@900 bu; red $1@1.25 bu; carrots 750@$1 bu; celery, No. 2. 65@700 doz; horseradish $2.50@5 bu; dry onions, No. 1, $1.50@1.75 bu; root parsley 75@900 bu; curly parsley 500 dozen bunches; parsnips $1@1.50 bu;I potatoes, No. 1, 65((1‘2-750 bu; No. 2, 60 @650 bu; rutabagas 65@750 bum squash $1.50@2 bu; turnips $1.25@2 bu; root celery $1@1.25 bu; honey at $1.25 per 5-1b. pail; vegetable oysters. 75c dozen bunches; butter 50@55c; eggs, wholesale 300; retail 35@400;! hens, wholesale 30612320; retail 34@ 35c; springers, wholesale 30@310 11": retail 34@35c; ducks 35c; veal 18 1 190; dressed poultry, hens 35@38c;] springers 35@38c. , GRAND RAPIDS Importations of Missouri candled and graded eggs by the carload weak- ened the Grand Rapids market on the poultry product early this week, pay- ing prices dropping to a. range of 26@ 280 a dozen. Some dealers said they would rather handle Missouri eggs than eggs from Ottawa county where most of the large ones are being pick- ed out for the hatcheries. While eggs were declining, butter and butter-fat: prices were advancing. Fat climbed to 48@49c a. pound 'with prospects of touching 500 by the end of the week. All meats were steady despite the len-, ten season when the demand usually slackens. Prime beef has advanced to 140 a pound for tops. Potatoes eased to 45@55c bu; wheat 'dropped to $1.62 and rye fell to $1.15 bu. Beans were barely steady at $5.60@5.65 per cwt. Poultry was scarce with fat fowls top- ping at 26@27c a pound. COMING LIVE STOCK SALES. Guernseys- .’ March 25——Consignment sale, Saginaw. Fair Grounds, Geo. J. Hicks, Man- ager, Saginaw W. S. lst‘ are lot 119 |n. GTE V C HU IT“ 'I' W WV'E’ wav—V‘l‘l 0' town. only $500 needed. DeCoudres. Bloomingdale. Mich. I! 3 mg . rhrings, 1.80 per hundre . , , .the‘ con ensary. Potatoes are p cally all marketed. High prices for iwheat. aided in marketing that crop. About forty per cent of the beans are farmers’ hands. They are waiting for higher prices. Farmers are en- couraged by higher prices.—A._ M. - Clare 60., .March 3.—J.ive stock is coming through the winter in good condition. though feed is high. Pota- toes are in good condition. but selling low. Wheat brings $1.60; rye $1.12; oats 45c; beans $6.60 per cwt.; eggs 25c; poultry 14c; cream 420. There are some social events among the neighbors at this period—A. J. S. losco 00., March 3.—Last week we had rain, sleet and zero weather. Very little activity on the farms. Hay and gotatoes are moving slow hay brings om $8@12 per ton; butter 40c; eggs' 35c; dressed poultry 25c; dressed pork 120; beef 10c. Sheep are looking well. Farmers are sawing and hauling wood. Contracting for the coming .chickory crop is in progress—G. C. A. Gratlot 00., March 2.——0wing to high prices of grain, fewer cattle are being fed than usual. Recent advances in the price of wheat have led many farmers to sell, and the amount re- maining in the hands of growers is not large. About twenty ‘per cent of the bean crop remains unsold. Wheat fields and meadows look fine when snow first disappeared. Wheat brings $1.78; oats 49c; beans $5.75; eggs 220. e e a SEEESnSEEDSuSEEDS What Kind Do You Want? Write Us--Get Our Low Prices--Write Us The Exoelelov Seed 00.. 3334 Lawrence Ave. Chicago. lli. and hog'ehipments ‘ Guaranteeing beat results and prompt returns; Ship. direct to M. A. Nicholson 8: Co. WHOLESALE MEATS ‘ 2460 Riopelle, Detroit, Michigan For Best Results Ship Direct to DETROIT BEEF C0., Detroit, Mich. DRESSED CALVES DRESSED HOGS SUCKLING PIGS LIVE POULTRY .. - DRESSED POULTRY Write for Free Shippers‘Guide CALVES CAI—VIE? CALVES SHIP Otto F. Bernstein 2478 Riopelle Street, Detroit, Mich. Largest and Oldest Exclusive Veei ilercilsnle 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. less. Ask your Bank for References. Holmes,8luwe (10.2429 Riopelle St. Commission Merchants. Dressed Beet. B s. calves. goultry. Live t Dressed. Provisions. etc. orres n- ence Soliclted. Ref. Wayne County t Home la n a Bank. Bradstreet. Detroit. Mich. Cherry 7 I Make thelest GHOGOLATE Mil: Mints and Chewmg Gum. Be my agent. Everybody Write today. Free So will buy from you. .mples. MILTON GORDON. Jackson St. Cincinnati. Ohio dvantage yea! q ervlceable 4' WP MemWomen and Chfidm ma. TOWER c0» Boston“ a . arrow. pedal”! ' them. now '\ \- . , . . \fis" insure the hardest wear. ,. . Stylish enougfi For me. most exacting. W582: \ - '5 “llEverybody’s Wearing}: ; é? . _. \\ \ i ‘i \“ enougfi For ray: ours-n an: ”we filing miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange. consecutive insertions 6 cents a word. Count as oliillnlmum chores. to words. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISINO This classified} advertising department is established for the convenience of Michigan farmers. Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings. Try it for want eds and for adver- t! classified rates. or in display columns at commercial rates. Rates 8 cents a word. each insertion. on orders for less than four insertions: for four or more d I type or illustrations admitted. Remittances must accompany order. “pixel estate and live stock advertising have separate departments and are not accepted as classified. Poultry advertising will be run in this department a word each abbreviation. initial or number. No One Four One Four 10........$0.80 $2.40 26........32.08 $6.24 11......“ .88 2.64 27..."... 2.16 6.48 11....... .96 2.88 28........ 2.24 6.72 11........1.04 3.12 29........ 2.32 0.00 11......” 1.12 3.36 30........ 2.40 7.20 ........ . 3.60 31........ 2.48 7.44 10........1.28 3.84 32........ 2.56 7.68 1 ........ 4.08 33...“... 2.64 7.92 4.32 2.72 8.16 4.56 35........ 2.80 8.40 4.80 36..."... 2.88 8.64 5.04 3 ........ 2.96 8.88 5.28 3.04 9.12 5.52 . 3.12 9.36 5.76 40..." .. 3.20 9.60 6.00 41........ 3.28 9.84 REAL ESTATE ISO-ACRE MICK. FARM with 8 Cows. 3 Horses. Poultry. Bull. hogs. machinery, hay. oats. corn, fod- der. potatoes included; close village and lovely lake; productive fields. pasture. woodlot; warm 9-room house. barn. granary. poultry, hog houses. Owner called away. only $5,300. part cash. Details pg. 148 big new Spring Catalog. Free. Strout Farm Agency. 105130 Kresge Bldg. Detroit. Mich. FOR SALE—80 acres of good cut-over land. A. No. 1 quality. Clay loam soil. with 15 acres cleared and partly fenced. For quick salc. will take $000 for it. In good neighborhood, and few hours drive to resort lakes and good trout streams. Mrs. Alvin Butter- more. Moddersville. Mich. Box 15 A 120-ACRE FARM located in Allegan 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 Alfie-n. Moline, Mich. ' WANT TO BUY A FARM? Send for Michigan Re- sort and Farm Service Guide. it's free. Many excel- lent resort and farm bargains listed in each number. U. G. Reynolds. Gladwin. Mich. FOR SALE—220-acre farm in Jackson Co. on state read. 100 acres heavy loam soil. 40 some heavy oak timber. remainder mowing marsh and pasture. Ad- dress Box 88. Michigan Farmer. 80 ACRES IN CROPS—20 of timber, no waste. Gen- eral grain farm. Good buildings, plenty fruit. 9 acres alfalfa. 37% acres wheat. Will sell or trade for pas- ture land. 0. D. Gross. Fenton. Mich. T0 RENT-farm on shares. 120 acres. 30 miles from Detroit. 1 mile from cement road. Cows furnished. Good soil. Write for particulars. Wm. McMullsn. Bell . Mich. WILL SELL 0R TRADE for farm. my five story modern equipped Elevator. and fine modern residence. Address J. E. Skeoch. Coral. Mich. MISCELLANEOUS EGG CRATES—We are in position to supply you at all times with good second hand egg crates, including fillers and flats. and a. one—piece cover. (omplete for shipping at the following rates: Carload lots F. O. B. Detroit. 16c each. less than carload lots 180 each. Wm. Spitz a Sons. 2645 Chene Sh. Detroit. Mich. 1571 Mei-win Ave. Cleveland, 0. 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- flcld. Ohio. UP-TO-DATE moat markct for sole. doing good busi- ness, reason for selling is on account of health. An: tonlo Genco. Box 352. Mason, Mich. FOR YOUR SAVINGS—45% to til-2% on safe tax ex- empt City Bonds. Write for information. Bingheim do 00.. Des Moines, Iowa. GLADIOLI—a75 blooming sizc. $1. Ten Iris. mixed. 1. Catalogue free. Gladwood Gardens. Box R. Copemish. Michigan. BEAUTIFUL FAMILY RECORD—Birds in flidit. Remember dear ones at home and in heaven. Postpaid 50 cents. H. N. Bun-(ms. Box 270, East Tawas, Mich. CEDAR POSTS in cal'lots. direct from producer. Write for prices. E. Doty. Atlanta. Mich. 80-ACRE FARM for sale by owner. Mostly.de and black sand. Young orchard, 1000 trees. Situated 30 miles north of Detroit. on State Road. Shock and tools if desired. Thomas Nunneley. New Haven. Mich. Macomb Co. 20—ACRE FRUIT and poultry farm. adjoining George Hunter. Dowagiac. Mich. TRACTOR STARTERS FOR FORDSONS—litmture free. Climax Tractor Starter 00.. Climax. Mich. GLADIOLUS BULBS—Write for descriptive price list. FABM DITCH DIGGER~Have you ditching to dot Write C. G. Alden. 225 E. Tenth Street. Erie. PC. so .Chme f tb‘handleto your SW] '3'- ..» ».. -*'-- winrna’sant Ridge; Detroit. MW ‘ ' N TOBACCO , ”um! MFUN 5531555. 61151113 8 ‘58.. §1353 Ten “.50. Smoking. 5 lbs.. $1.25; Ten. $2.00. Pay when received. pipe and recipe free. Farmers Union. Padu- HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing. 5 lbs” $1.50: 10 12.50. Smoklnll. '5. $1.25: 10. $2. Mild. 10. $1.50. received. F. Gupton. Budwell. Ky. HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing five pounds. $1.50: ten. 12.00. Smoking. five pounds, $1.25: ten, $2.00. Pipe free. Pay when received. Satisfaction guar- anteed. Kentucky Farmer’s Association. Paduceh, Ky. H ——-———_—- SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK Pay FROSTPBOOF CABBAGE PLANTS. All leading vs.- rietiu. Bermuda Onion, Esrlisna and Baltimore Tomato Plants. 500. 76c: 1.000. 11.25: 5.000. 85.00. Porto Rico Potato plants: 500. 11.50; 1.000. $2.60. By mail or express. Charges collect. Cabbage and onion now ready. others April 1st. All well rooted. open field grown from best seeds. We guarantee sat.- isfactlon. prompt shipment. safe arrival. Descriptive list free. Reinhardt Plant 00.. Ashbum. Georgia. 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. 31.50: 1.000. 12.50. Express collect. $1.25. 1,000. We ship the size of plant you wish. Satisfaction guaranteed. Tifton Potato Company. Inc.. Tifton. Ga. SEND US 12.90 and we will send 300 Champion ever. hearing strawberry plants. 100 Cooper for $2.00; 200 Premier for 11.50. Plants sent C. 0. D. for pomp. Order Direct. Catalog free. South Michigan Nursery. New Buflslo. Michigan. Ref. No. 14. HARDY FIELD GROWN—Chrysanthemums. sweet willlam. daisies and all old-fashioned or hardy per- ennial flowers. Iris. saunas. gladiolue. and tuberous bulbs. Spirsess. shrubbery. 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 stock. Registered and certified Worthy Oats. Developed by the Michigan Agricultural College. Heavy yielders with a stiff straw. Write for prices. Paul C. Clement, Britton. Michigan. BHUBARB-MAMMOTH VICTORIA~l-yr. whole roots. 20. 81: Giant Crimson 3-yr. divisions. 1. 11; Asparagus Roots. 50. 1. Delivered prepaid any- where. Weaver Gardens. Wichita. Kane. GUARANTEED—Progressive Everbearing Strawberry Plants. New Ground Plants $1.00 Hundred. 39 Thousand. Postpaid. State Inspected. William Fuchs. Box 123, Allegan. Mich. ALFALFA SEED—~60 bushels. gursenteed hardy grown seed. $18.00 per bushel. all clean seed and about 99%% pure. Henry Foley. Mt. Pleasant. Michigan. B. 5. Samples on request. CERTIFIED Wolverine Oats. Certified Robust Beans. Posgal card brings particulars. A. B. Cook. Owosso. c . SPARAGUs—Giant. Washington. Rust Proof and ary Washington. Best varieties. Circular price list free. J. C. Dunham. Lawton. Mich. ASPARAGUS—Why not plant the largest. tender-est. most profitable. "The Washington”? 100 roots $1.25: 1000 18.00. Prepaid. Glick Seed Farm. Lancaster. Pa. BUY NURSERY STOCK DIRECT from grower. Save agent‘s commission. Send for catalog. Kenkskee Nursery. Kankakee. Illinois. \ SWEET CLOVER SEED. both white and yellow. In- oculating Bacteria for bushel, any legume. 60c. post- paid. E. E. Basil. Latty. Ohio. . CERTIFIED Improved Robust Beans. Wisconsin Pedi- gree Barley. Fritz Mantey. Fairgrove. Mich. REGISTERED WOLVERINE OATS—Michigan's Best. C. D. Finkbeiner. Clinton. Mich. CERTIFIED W RTHY OATstig Yield. stiff straw. Ernest Ruehs. aledonia, Mich. VVOLVERINE OATS—Robust Beans. F. DeWitt & Son. Wheeler. Mich. CERTIFIED Petoskcy seed potatoes. J. B. Gray. R. 1. West Branch. Mich. PET STOCK THOROUGHBRED COLLIE PUPS—Some natural Healers. also grown Stock. Sable and White Collie at Stud. G. J. Dunnewind. R. l. Comstook Park. Mich. FOR SALE~Black Collie pups. age three months. Ideal farm dogs. Don Crook. Cassopolis. Mich. FOR SALE—Registered Collies. natural heelers. Sil- rercrest Kennels. Gladwin. Michigan. POULTRY POULTRY AND FRESH EGGS WANTED~WIII pay highest prices for broilers, fryers. 11/3. 2. 21,4 lbs. each. fat hone. Strictly fresh white hennery eggs. Write for quotation. East Coast Poultry Co.. 700 Alfred St. Detroit. Mich. MARCY FARM AND HOFFMAN'S fifteen-pound strain Jersey Black Giants. Unrelated trios $10: $3.00 each in larger quantities. Eggs $2.00 per fifteen. Also thoroughbred Bronze turkey eggs in season. J. G. Hicbert. Middleton, Mich. HATCIIING EGGS. White Recks. Winners Egg Laying Contest, Michigan State Fair. 1924. $3.00. $5.00 per fifteen. B. t‘. Buff Orpingtons. winners at. Michigan's largest shows. 53. $5.00 per lift-«n Sand for cir- cular. Walnut Hill Farm. Milford. .‘llfh. WHITE LIIGIIORN I: 765 for I15$.hil‘.;. From Farm Flook. Also l’cn mated direct Ferns 2’5 lo 300-cgg Strain. Iixcs $12 and $22 per loo. Ritervicw Farm. Vassar. Mich. JERSEY BLACK GIANTS eggs and chick: from my Super X Giants. tine large. hcslthy birds. circular free. A. W. Hourllton. Coldwater. Mich. SINGLE COMB REDS—Hatching eggs from trap-nest- ed. winter layers. 15 eggs. $1.50: 100. $7.00; prepaid. Willem-oft Farm. Bangor. Michigan. ‘ S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS—Laying pullets. extra se- lected $1.50. 0. A. Branian. Polo. Mich. SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES—Twenty choice cock- erels. Circular free. C. W. BroWning,-Portland. Mich. BUFF ORPINGTON hatching eggs from high class birds. Also Buff DUck eggs. Bert Bailey. R 11. Holland. Mich. BUFF MINORCA EGGS—$9.00 per 100. Black: $8.00. Postpaid. Willow Egg Farm. Holland. Mich. FOR 1110 TYPE Toulouse Geese try M. B. Noble, Isllne. Mich. ' ‘ predominate comm-"m Mummiempfi'en can? crucxs ' “ILLINOIS ACCREDITED" pure-bred chicks. Statei inspected breeding stock. Barred Rocks, Single Comb Reds. $15400. White Wyandottes. Bull' Orp no. White Rocks. 816-100. Postpaid. 100% live delivery. Hatch every Monday, order from ad. Member Inter- national and Illinois Chick Assoeietion. Earlville Hatchery. 30 Oman st. Eerlville. Illinois. BABY CHICKS from America's pioneer hatchery have pleased over 25,000 customers. 22nd season. We hatch twenty popular varieties. Guaranteed safe do. livery by prepaid parcel post. Write for 40-page cata- log and free premium ofl'er. Miller Hatcheries. Box 759. Lancaster. Mo. SUPERIOR QUALITY Barred Beck and Pure Han- son White Leghorn Chicks. Stook Blood Tested sm- ond season. Highest Barred Beck at Michigan and Missouri Contests. 1923-24. Contest winners 1921. Discount for early orders. Satisfaction guaranteed. Circular Free. Aseltine Poultry Farm. 1827 Belden. Grand Rapids. Mich. BABY CHICKS—Silver L. and White Wyandottes. Barred Rocks. R. I. Reds. Anconas. White and Brown from day—old to eight weeks old. Fifteenth year. Write Shepard Poultry Farm. Litchfleid, Mich. OAKLAND HILLS QUALITY CHICKS—Strong. vig- orous. true to breed. profitable. English Leghorns. Reds. Rocks. White Wyandottes. etc. Safe delivery guaranteed. Circular free. Oakland Hills Poultry Farm. Remington. Mich. INCREASE YOUR PROFITS with chicks from these flecks. $108.78 was market value of eggs laid in De. cembsr by one of our flocks of 125 pallets. Quality Ch‘iggs at low prices. Booeher’s Hatchery. Burr Oak. 1 . BARRED ROCKS. CHICKS and Eggs. No better in America. Ollicisl Laying Contest Records 207 to 293 Proven in Laying Contests and Show Rooms. Write {or hill-ices. take no chances. G. Caball. Hudsonvllla. . lC . BABY CHICKS—Pedigree Sired Eng. W. Les. Chlx. delivered 100% alive at your door at our low prices of $12.50 per 100; 180 per 600: $110 per 1000. Cir- cular free. Model Poultry Farm. R. 4. Zeeland. Mich. BABY CHICKS—S. C. W. Leghorns (Hollywood . Barred Rocks (Parks Strain). Send for cat- alfiguehllnowflske Poultry Farm. Route 5. Middle- v e. c . BABY CHICKS—Barron Strain White Leghorns and Barred Rocks. Satisfaction and 100% live arrival guaranteed. Send for description and prices. Baker's Hatchery. Jamestown. Mich. BABY CHICKS-—Tancred. Barron White Leghorns and Shepherd Anconas. High grade stock. Chicks in~ sured for one week. Catalog free. M. D. Wyngarden. Zeeland. Mich. BABY CHICKS from flocks blood-tested for Bacillary White Diarrhea. All flocks tested—second test on Rocks and Beds. All popular varieties. Ask for Catalogue. Pierce Hatchery, Jerome. Michigan. BABY CHICKS. From selected heavy layers. White Leghorns $15; Barred Rooks and Beds 316 Hundred. Circular Free. Martin's Poultry Farm. Westphalia. Mich. Box I". BARRON S. C. W. LEGHORN CHICKS—heavy on producing strain. first batch March 10th. 100% live ilelijveryuggaranteed. Waterway Hatchery, R. 4. Hol- an . i C . BABY CHICKS at living prices. Fourteen popular varieties. High egg production and standard qualities combined. Michigan State Fair Winners. Write for prices. Limhfleld Hatchery. thchfield. Mich. QUALITY CHICKS from Quality Stock. Barred Becks. White Wyandottes and S. C. White Leghorns from prize winning st0ck at reasonable prices. A VanderVen. 823 Fulton Ave.. Grand Haven. Mich. BABY CHICKS—-Barred Rocks, White Leghorns culled for laying. trapnest/ed. blood tested for White Diarrhea. Farmrsnge Chick Hatchery. Charlotte, Michigan. CHICKS~English Strain White Leghorns. M. A. C. Barred Books and Black Minorcas. Circular. Hillu side Hatchery, R. 3. Holland. Mich. BABY CHICKS AND EGGSwSuperior Ringlet Barred Rocks. Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds, White Leghorns. Wyndham's Ideal Hatchery. Titlin, Ohio. Circular. CHICKS from Trapncstiu English White Leghorns. Heavy winter laying StOl'k. Big profit—makers. Cir- cular free. Cherrywood Poultry Farm. Holland, Mich. QUALITY CHICKS—12c up. From strong. healthy flocks. Rooks. Rods. Lesluwns. Anl'OnaS. Mating list free. Shady Lawn Hatchery. R. 2. Zceland. Mich. CHICKS. Brown Leghorns $12 per 100; also have White Leghorns. Rocks and Rods. Free booklet, Free~ port Hatchcn’, Box 12. FrWDort. Mich. RICHARDSON'S ROCKY RIDGE pure Parks strain Barred Rock Baby Chicks. $11; per 100. Hanover. Mich. S. C. BUFF LEGHORN CHICKS—First hatch March 3. Circular. Willard Webster. Bath. Mich. TURKEY'S TURKEY EGGS—Mammoth Bronze. Bourbon Red. Narragansett and White Holland. You should place your order early. Write Walter Bros. Powhatan Point. Ohio. NOW BOOKING ORDERS for Bourbon Red turkey fizz. for hatching. Arthur Gale. R. 3. Montague. AGENTS WANTED ADDITIONAL SALESMEN WANTED for unoccupied territories. Our proposition is an unusual opportunity for high grade men. offering greater earning power and steady work. Must have car. Full information on rmucst. Minneapolis Woolen Mills (30.. Inc” 612 Vim Aw. North. Minneapolis, Minn. - BIG MONEY Selling Now Household Cleaning Set. Washes and dries Windows. Sweeps, scrubs, mops. All complete onLv $2.05. Over half profit. Write Harper Brush Works. 173 3rd St... Fairiicld, Iowa. WE PAY $200 monthly salary. furnish car and ex- penses to introduce our guaranteed poultry and stock powders. Bigler Company X683. Springfield. Ill. HELP WANTED WANTED—man with small family. Must understand machinery and all stock. Good yearly terms. Chance for adi'amuemcnt. Farm close to University, and one hour from Detroit. C. E. Vreeland. 1713 David Whit- ncy Bldg” Detroit, Michigan. WANTED~MARRIED MAN with farm implements. horses and cows. to rent fine farm near Toledo: con-\ venient to concrete road and City markets. Jerome Probst. Ann Arbor. Michigan. TRY a Michigan Farmer; Classified Liner. bring results. meson Leghoms from culled and strong laying strains. Sold_ They : . 1r p,.1"«.c1ryfi’¢¢;;_, 7.," 1- < "'31:, £7»: -w,~z-r“ .5; wire: '2‘“ ‘a 2. --...-~ gnaw 3&5va » .wmhww mwtguurwiwn The Brown Fence & Wire 00., Cleveland, Ohio. Gentlemen: . ; Enclosed. find order for fence and bath wire as ' . described. Having tried your fence for thel'ast two years. 0. I‘think it cannot-be beat anywhere as to price first; O neigh ' rs and friends that are of the same - ' 7 _ _, ‘ . . opinion as myself. Hurrahfifor Brawn . ». 000.56%”, = cut My Pl‘lces ’ l/ i ‘9 PoéAwgsfiifigfggha Again fills Year 0/0., . .‘ \\ - Here’s good news for the man .who is going to need Fence, Gates, Steel " ’9 , . . \\ Posts, Barb Wire, Roofing or Paint this year. You can save a lot of money I ‘. ’ O . ’ . o . .4 . Read ’ G / ¢ \\ by getting my New Cut Price Catalog. before you buy. - It’s a big book — over. : § 100 pages of bargains —— the greatest variety of high-quality Fences, Gates, Steel q \ Posts, Barb Wire, Roofing and Paints ever put out by any factory. No matter when ’ Thls : § or where you expect to buy, get my Cut Price Book first. [want you to see the big ", ' : § money my Direct-from-Factory-Plan will save you. . . -, _ 6 " : § Over 850,000 customers buy from my factories—«they save all middlemen’s profits—get the 7 ’ “ n : benefit of my low manufacturing costs, get the better quality that has made Jim Brown’s goods g 9. : N famous —— all for a great deal less money .than they have to'pay elsewhere—and don’t forget— g' 5:3 I PAY THE FREIGHT » W //, The low prices shown in my CUT PRICE GATALOG areflall you pay—«nothing extra for. freight ——~I deliver the goods right to your freig’ht‘station. ' . I — — I _ - - For the past 35 years I have been giving farmers bigger value than'they could get anywhere ' ' I 5 else ~— that’s why my busmess has grown until it IS the biggest of Its kindin the worldiifgi .- 5 Fill out and mail coupon—get my New Cut Prices—see the wonderful values I amoffer-f; . . '. ' ing on over 150 styles of my famous Double Galvanized Fence that lasts two or three»; 5; / r . ‘ times as long as ordinary fence—Carbon Steel Gates that last 'a‘lifetime. Steel Posts i ’ that are bigger, heavier, and much stronger. Genuine Aéplialt Roofing—M Wearbesti ‘. ’ House and Barn Paint—everything of the Highest Quality and at prices that are ‘ e6 way below what you pay for ordinary quality, and 'everything'sold "on a_, ‘ ’ Guarantee of satisfaction that lets you be the judge. ~ _ . G ’ i Fill ‘ Out ‘4 No matter where you live, you can save a lot of money f and get your goods quickly as I, ship promptly from my 3 big factories at Cleveland, Ohio, Memphis, Tenn., and Adrian, Michigan, also shipping points at Kansas City, and Davenport, Iowa. You owe it to yourself to get my Cut Price Catalog before you buy—it’s yours - for the asking—Jim Brown. THE BROWN FENCE & WIRE COMPANY Dept. 2812 Cleveland - - - Ohio ; "<- le'\\ .. \ ~ ' V n . ............................................. & ‘ ,, ’ ‘ ' ‘ E . 1' ' , ‘La ll » , fifinrscrn ' I ”3.52.510: ”z i ""lm'nfii‘iin \— H l ' The Brown Fence & E Wire Co., Dept. 2812 l .' Cleveland, Ohio. Send me your New Cut Price Catalog. "Hmnmm Immmmm “ \r.‘ .\\\\'.‘I\1Lu=l\ ., .D. quality second; and last, but not least, prompt , 0/, Q. shipmen and durability of fence. I have x» a» x"4m-;mW‘-fl «was... I, am».