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as he claims, the misuse of the senate

rules, does not have the support of the
veteran farm organization representa-
tives in Washington who have long
been in close touch with congressional
proceedings. /

While it appears to be a. dog-in-the
manger system when a single senator
can indefinitely “hold up” action by
the senate, it is believed that it is a
necessary safeguard which the people,
especially the farmers, should give
much thought before they join with
those who are clamoring for a change
in the rules.

BUTTER TARIFF.

 

AT the hearings before the United

States Tariff Commission on the
proposal to increase the. tariff on but-
ter under the flexible tariff provisions,
from eight to twelve cents a pound,
which began April 21, E. B. Reid, rep-
resenting the American Farm Bureau
Federation, declared that the cost of
producing butter-fat in this country
and in Denmark warrants the fully
fifty per cent increase in the tariff.
He pointed out that New Zealand is
potentially a much greater competitor
than Denmark, the latter country hav-
ing about reached its maximum output
for export.

The cost of production studies made
by the tariff commission, according to
Mr. Reid, are comparable to those
made by various individuals in the
state agricultural colleges. Professor
P. E. McNall, of the University of
Wisconsin, found that ‘11 three dis-
tricts, Barron, Trempleau and Wau—
paca, the most of producing butter-fat
ranged from forty—eight to sixty cents
per pound. Professor Maclin figured
that the cost of producing butter-fat
in New Zealand was between thirty-
two and thirty~six cents per pound.

WORTHLESS FOREIGN CLOVER
SEED.
URING the last five years approx-
imately twelve and one-quarter
million pounds of Italian red clover
seed has entered the United States
from Italian ports. This seed is classed
by the United States Department of
Agriculture and the state experiment
stations which have thoroughly tested
it as “no good.” It is not adapted to
the production of clover in this coun—
try.

Reports coming from experiment
stations in Iowa, Minnesota, Wiscon—
sin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Tennes-
see, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia,
New York and several other states.
present a body of information which
leads to several important conclusions.
These are that Italian red clover seed
is worthless except in Idaho and Wash-
ington, where the climate is mild;
that Bohemian red clover is not much

 

better, and that native American clo-
ver seed is the best of all to with—
stand the winter weather and the at—
tacks of mildew and anthracnose.”

FARM BILLS WHICH FAILED.

M [CASURES supported by the farm
bureau Which failed, but which
Will be up for action next season, are
the bill to authorize the coloring of
Italian and French clover seed; the
bill providing for federal certification
of domestic field seeds as to varietal
purify; the McNary-Vestal bill provid-
ing for standardization of containers
used in marketing fruits and vegeta-
bles, and two. bills to improve the in-
termediate credit system. The farm
bureau is making preparations to
wage a strong fight to get favorable
action on these bills next winter.

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A Practical Journal for the Rural F amily

SECTION THE CAPPER

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RELIABILITY
SERVICE

   

NUMBER EIGHTEEN

  

 

T fie Experiences of a Half Dozen Sneeessfit/ Dnzrynzen
By A. C. Baltzcr

HERE are many advantages that

the dairyman can obtain through

the cow testing iassociation.
There are some good cows in every
milking herd. Few men can tell how
good the best ones are and which
cows are “boarder” or “visitor” cows.
Ellis Gruesbeck, of Eaton Rapids,
member in the South Eaton County

Ass®iation, owned a grade Jersey '

cow named “Spot” that was believed
to be unprofitable. Spot was fattened
up and tagged for the local butcher,
when the cow tester, Hans Kardel,
suggested that she be tested in the
association. At the end of the twelfth
month Spot had produced 8,596 pounds
of milk and 439 pounds of butter-fat,
and made a return of $130.94 over the
cost of feed. She ranked third high
cow in the association. Dairymen, who
are in cow testing associations, have
stopped guessing as to each cow’s re-
turns. They know, for the milk scales
and the Babcock test tell the truth.
“They had a hard time getting me
into this cow testing association, but

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Hoyt Shisler, for two
in the oldest association
try, at Newaygo.

years tester
in the coun-

they will have a blame sight harder
time getting me out,” .said Tony
Snooks, at Central Lake, Michigan,
last June. Snooks felt good because,

 

Dolly at left, sired by a grade sire,
gave 6,274 pounds of milk and 238.9
pounds 01 fat, while Bess at right, the
daughter of a pure- -bred sire. gave
14 071 pounds of milk and 476 6 pounds
01' l'.at Both cows are fiom the same
dam

when he joined the Antrim County
Cow Testing Association in June, 1923,
he was milking fourteen cows. For
the same month one year later Snooks
had weeded the herd down to nine
cows and the returns over cost of feed
were $22 more than when he milked
fourteen cows. Seeing is believing
With many other dairymen who are to-
day in cow testing associations scat-
tered all over Michigan.
A Lesson on Bulls.

Peter Koelsch, of Standish, Mich—
igan, a member in the Arenac County
Cow Testing Association, is the Calvin
Coolidge of Michigan dairymen when
it comes .to saying much in a few
words. He says, “Know your Bull.”
Koelsch’s cow testing association rec-
ords prove his words. His old cow.
Snow, has three daughters. These
cows completed the year’s test and
the records mean much to all dairy-
men. Bess, the daughter of Snow, was
sired by a pure-bred bull. When seven
years old Bess produced 14,071 pounds
of milk and 476.6 pounds of butter-fat.
Another daughter of Snow, named

Speckle, was sired by a scrub bull.
Speckle at six years of age produced
9, 229 pounds of milk and 237.6 pounds‘
of butter-fat. There is a difference in
production of 4,842 pounds of milk and
239 pounds of butter-fat in favor of
Bess, the daughter of a pure-bred sire.

An even greater difference in pro-
duction exists between Bess and Dolly,
the thi d daughter of Snow Dolly is
three years old and was sired by a
scrub bull. Bess produced 7, 797 pounds
more of 1r;lk and 238 pounds mo1e of
butter-fat than Dolly did. This 'amount
of butter-fat increase due to the use
of a pure-bred sire, figured at forty
cents a pound equals $95.20 difference
between these two cows.

Ten cows like Bess would produce

 

This sixteen——yea1—old cow, owned by
E. O. Outwater, of Ann A1b01 has
laised fourteen calves, and last yeai
made 9,743 pounds of milk and 449
pounds of buttei- fat.

enough more butter-fat, compared to
ten cows like Dolly, in 0110 year’s time
to pay the interest 011 an investment
of $15,850. This amount would buy a
carload of the best pure—bred bulls in
Michigan. Peter Koelsch said much
when he said “Know Your Bull.” And
Koelsch continues to belong to “(e
cow testing association.

Tester Cut Monthly Feed Bills.
Then, again, the experience of N. D.
Chestnut gives further proof regard-

ing the value of the cow testing asso-
ciation. Chestnut belongs to the Liv-
ingston No. 3 Cow Testing Associa-
tion, at Hartland, Michigan. Chestnut
said, “Sure, I’ll join'the association."
Chestnut had a very high-class herd
of pure-bred Holsteins which repre-
sented many years of painstaking
thought and labor on his part. He
knew cows and has made many excel-
lent official records. When the tester
came on his first trip and made up
the feed record on the herd, Chestnut
was surprised to find that the feed bill
could be reduced more than $50 a
month through the work of the cow
tester. Chestnut felt that the first
month’s visit by the cow tester had
already paid for the year’s testing cost.
Lost $210.

In one herd in the Macomb County

No. 2 Cow Testing Association, Casper

Blumer, the tester, showed that if the
owner had spent just seventy-five
cents more for grain per month his

returns would have been $1.75 greater
per cow per month. On ten cows this
would have meant $17.50 and for the

year $210. This amount was lost to
the dairyman by a poorly balanced
ration. .

$39 Grows to $400.
And then Ira Dickenson, ol' Genesee
county—tho county that leads all the
counties in the United States for the

(Continued on page 612).

 

 

Laura Ranney, of Dewitt has a good
time with l1e1 puie— b1 ed Guernsey calf.
Hter lather beliei es in testing associ-

1011s.

Go Careful on Bean Acreage

T ne

HERE is a tariff of $1.05 per

bushel on beans. Whenever our

production exceeds our domestic
demand, the price of our entire crop
is placed on an export business. In
1922 the production was approximately
13,000,000 bushels, and imports were
about two million. In 1923, the pro-
duction of the United States was 16,-
000, 000 bushels, with practically no
imports. Our net consumption is es-

timated by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture to be about 15,-

000,000 bushels.

On this basis it appears that a crop
in excess of 15,000,000 or 16,000,000
bushels will place our market on an
export basis and, no doubt, result in
a low price.

The 16,000,000 bushel crop of 1923
was produced on a smaller acreage
than the 13,000,000 bushelgcrop of 1924.
The low yield of 1924 was due to

Present Sztnntzon Snggesls Cannon to Me Grower

By J. T.

draught. Should California, where a
small 1924 acreage was the result of
drought, plant her usual acreage in
1925, and other states plant the same
as they did last year, there would be
approximately a ten per cent increase
in acreage over that of 1924. Under
these acreage conditions an average
season would give a crop for 1925 of
about 17,000,000 bushels, according to
estimates made by the United States
Department of Agriculture. Such a
production would, no doubt, place the
market on an export basis, which
would cause prices to be lower.

In those sections where beans and
potatoes compete, farmers are apt to
be tempted to shift from potatoes to
beans. Such a shift in a moderate

Homer

way might be justifiable if conditions
on the individual farm make it advis-
able. However, the prices in the bean
and potato markets are the result of
a low yield of beans (the lowest since
1917), and the highest yield of pota-
toes in the history of the country.

Farmers should not forget that the
present prices are not the important
thing to consider when planning the
productive program for the year; but
the prices which are apt to prevail
when the crop goes to market, and
conditions on the individual farm.

In summary, there seems to be no
justification for an increase in the
bean acreage and very little reason
why the potato acreage should be less
than it was last year. However, it is

not the acreage of farmers in a certain
locality or state which is going to
have the influence on the market next
fall; but the acreage of all those who
compete in the market, as well as the
yields per acre. This is not a time to
plunge on any one crop.

A well balanced farm program, with
very little increases in the productive
policies, except that hog production
can be very safely increased, seems
advisable; unless all indications are
wrong. The low price of dairy prod-
ucts and the bright outlook for the hog
market makes it appear advisable to
separate as much surplus milk as pos-
sible and turn the skim into pork. It
is unwise to send whole milk into a
city market and sell it at manufac—
tured prices, from which must be de-
ducted high tiansportation costs, when
the skim- milk is valuable in po1k p10-
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VOLUME CLXIV I NUMBERIEIGHTEEN

DETROIT, MAY 2, 1925
CURRENT COMMENT

E are living in

 

. Reducing a new era. It is
an era of competition.

the This is as true in ag-
Costs riculture as in the in-

dustrial w01ld. Dur-
ing the coming decade 01 two that old
law, “the survival of the fittest," is
certain to Show results. In our pres-
ent order, the “fittest” seems to be
one who can perform certain tasks at
the least cost.

Michigan farmers are well aware
of this program. Our cow testers and
thousands of farmers are weeding the
poor cows from the herds of the state,
and the remaining animals are being
given a better chance through proper
feeding. The poultry culler is doing
a similar type of work with the flocks
of poultry. Recently at the Agricul-
tural College, sheep men were organ-
ized to promote greater efficiency in
the production of wool. The remark—
able work being done by the college
men at East Lansing in developing
strains of farm crops which will give
higher yields per acre, is a most im-
portant part of the agricultural effi-
ciency program in this state.

This all means that we are'going
to produce milk and eggs and wool
and farm crops at a lower relative
cost. Extravagant production must go;
and the farmer who persists in keep-
ing non-laying hens, boarder cows, and
inferior sheep, and who continues to
grow low—yielding crops will be in a

bad way.
Agricultural competition cries for
efficiency. The demand for less costly

methods will either drive a certain
class from the farm, or will oblige
them to live a lower standard of life.

0 doubt there are

A Novel many readers of

. this paper who have
Pooling not heard of Fal-
Scheme mouth. Won, Fal'

mouth exists and can
be found in the southern part of Mis-
saukco county.

This little village deserves our at-
tention because it is the headquarters
of the Falmouth Potato Growers’ As-
sociation. We are particularly inter-
ested in this association, for its mem-
bers evolved a plan for the orderly
marketing of potatoes which has elicit-
ed national attention.

The plan consists of a single season
pool, beginning with December 1 and
closing June 30. At the beginning of

 

toes to be marketed from
‘, hers. Then, with seven months in

 

which to sell the crop. one—seventh of
the total is shipped each month re-
gardless of the weather, price or mar-
keting conditions. '

At the end of each month the man-
ager of the association settles with.
each member for one-seventhof the
potatoes he has listed with the asso-
ciation. When the seven-month period
is up, such adjustments are made as
are necessary to rectify errors in mak-
ing the initial estimates.

Members seem to be convinced that
the plan has more than ordinary merit.
Every member secures an average
price for his potatoes. Each grower
receives some money. every month.
With the work of loading and shipping
spread evenly over the season, the
overhead expenses are reduced. There
are no worries about the ups and
downs of the market since the grower
is certain to get an average price for
his crop.

These are worth-while reasons for
establishing a pool. If the plan serves
an isolated organization of potato
growers so well as it seems to have
done in this case, certainly its general
adoption should greatly increase the
benefits to each local, as well as to
potato markets generally.

T would not have

The been difficult for a
Bean stranger to under-
. stand that Michigan
Hearing people are inteIested

in beans, by peeking
in at the federal hearing on bean
grades held at,Lansing on Friday of
last week.

Over three hundred persons were
present. Farmers, elevator men, job-
hers, canners, the various state and
federal agencies in any way concerned
about the question, the press and many

others were there to hear and to be_

heard.

It was no place for glove salesmen.
That part of one’s personal apparel
was not in evidence. The question of
the desirability of federal grades for
beans was handled with bare hands.
Weak-hearted, thin-skinned people had
no business showing themselves 011
this occasion. And they didn’t.

About seventy-five per cent of the
time devoted to the hearing was given
to the matter of whether or not fed-
eral grades were desirable. It was
evident from the start that those 01)—
posing this move on the part of the
federal government were in the ma.-
jority; and so it proved when a vote
was taken on the question at the end
of the hearing.

Very little new material was devel-
oped during the course of the discus-
sion. It was largely a rehearsal of the
material given at local meetings held
recently in bean sections of the state.

In our opinion, the federal repre-
sentatives were fair in handling the
matter. They gave every opportunity
for anyone. interested to “get any—
thing off his chest” that he desired.

Our hope is that whatever decision
is made by the secretary of agriculture
when the material gathered at these
hearings and from many other
sources is analyzed, it will be for the
best interests of this great industry
in which Michigan farmers are so Vi-
tally interested.

EDERAL investi-

Another gators in New
Reason for York City find that
. losses from plant dis-
Quallty eases, insect pests,
mechanical injuries

and extreme temperatures run as high
as fifty per cent on a car of fruit and
vegetables. The New York health
board condemns annually eight million
pounds of fruits and vegetables as un-
fit for human consumption, mostly at
terminals and docks.

The freight losses and damage cases
paid by American railroads on fruits

‘riers

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tion, packing and shipping to reduCe
these losses The employes of the
railroads are also being drilled in bet-
ter methods of handling farm products
in transit. ‘ ‘

Whatever may be the cause of this
waste, it is an economic loss which
helps to widen the spread between the
price the producer gets, and the con-
sumer pays. Somebody has to pay for
hauling products to a point of con-
sumption which are found worthless
after they get there. -

As the authorities have brought to
us the 1ealization of this loss and are
endeavoring to eliminate them, we feel
sure that it will be lessened. But this
can best be done only through the co-
operation of all concerned, from the
grower to the retailer. Such a saving
will benefit all.

This can be accomplished, for it has
been done with citrus fruits. Ten
years ago the losses in transit were
about ten per cent; now they are less
than one per cent. This is just an
indication of what might be done with
other lines of produce if gone about
in ‘the right way.

four—year class should show the high-
est perc’entage, but under present con-
ditions only 5.3 per cent are under
two years of age, while those between
eight and nine years make nearly
twenty per cent of the total.

If the prbduction of colts averages
‘the' same as it has in the past year,
the number of horses. on farms at the
end of five years will be only sixty—six
per cent of the present number, and
with the average age higher than it is
now.

So, it seems that horses promise to
be good property. It will be a good
investment to take good care of Neil
and Bill, even if the auto is not shined
up as much as it used to be, and also
to act as matchmaker so that more
colts will be in evidence. The man
without a heart can now have a good,
cold cash reason for taking good care
of the faithful work steeds in his barn.

 

Compemm/zum
HE subject 0’ this, the secund o’
my serious 0’ sermons, is Compen-
sashuns. The text is, “Life always

T is reported that

Competin farmers in Ohio pays you fer what you do,” which is

'1‘]! (fig are having a little taken from the Law 0’ Compensa-
w' . e trouble with certified shuns.

Printer seed potatoes. They Pay day is better’n Sundays or va-

cashuns ta most workin’ men, ’cause
then they get paid. There’s some folk-
ses what don’t get paid enough fer
doin’ somethin’, and there’s others
, what get paid en~
tirely too much
fer doin’ nothin’.
There’s what you
call inequalities in
what man pays
man, but life is
fair and square:
it always pays
you for just what
1 you do.

If you do good, you get satisfact-
shun in return, and sometimes more,
that class, you know, does not work even if your goodness ain’t appreciat-
one bit harder than is necessary. 8d- If you are mean, it’ll come right

Thus in a little while the good rep- back ta bother you just as much or
utation of Michigan seed growers will more’n the other fellow.
be sacrificed. It would be most nat- Even if we think we is so strong
ural for a farmer getting “stung” in we km eat nails, if we eat wrong
this manner, to say “‘no more for me.” sometime we’ll get paid in sufferin’.
He would also warn his neighbors. We can’t wrong life in no way without
News of this kind would spread even sufferin’ fer it'

faster than has the stories of success It don’t make no differunce what
with our stock. our religious views is, if we hate, wor-

ry, fear, get angry or jealous, or do
any other wrong thing fer any reason.
them thoughts is goin' ta. bother us
more’n anybody else. It don’t seem
ta me it’s our religus views What give
us a. passport ta heaven here or herc‘
after; it’s right thinkin’ and doin’
what does.

The compensashuns 0’ life is exact.
What we sow, we reap. There’s lots
0’ us what like ta kid ourselves that
we’re sowin’ the right kind 0’ seed.
Maybe we kin kid ourself but we can’t,

have learned that it
is not safe to rely upon the tags found
on the bags, for uncertified seed ap-
parently is being sold in bags marked
“Certified.”

We hope this hijacker work is not
being conducted by Michigan people.
Nevertheless, if Michigan certified
seed has been producing the best re-
sults in Ohio, men, unscrupulous
enough to mark bags containing com-
mon spuds with “Certified” tags, would
naturally declare that the stock was
from the place where the best seed
spuds are being grown. Such a state-
ment would make it easier for them
to sell their counterfeit wares. And

 

 

This business is specialized, and the
product requires protection from the
time the potatoes are taken from the
ground till they are planted. They
should ever be under the control of
responsible people. In other.words,
“Certified Seed Potatoes” should be
grown and handled by “certified” men.
It matters not whether the handler be
a cooperative association or a private
concern, this business is built upon
confidence, and unless that confidence
can be maintained the business is

gone kid life. Our lack o’ judgmunt, 0r 1g
‘ norance, ain’t excused by life.

It’s awful nice ta be compensed but

T is a fact that it ain’t right unless we compense too.

Shortage things go in cycles When we get «somethin’ fer nothin’

of and in doing SO they we’re either stealin’ or we’ll have ta

are likely to go to ex— pay fer it some other time, maybe in

Horses tremes. For instance, some other way. But when we get

in a slump, prices are
likely to go below real value, and in a
boom enthusiasm takes them to un-
reasonable heights.

So it is with horses. Automobiles
are on everybody’s tongue and in most
everybody’s garage. This focusing of
attention on the gasoline go-cart has
inclined us to neglect old Nell and
faithful Bill. It is true that they are
still indispensable, but somehow the
feeling has become general that it will
not be a paying investment to .let Nell
and Bill raise a family.

A recent nation- wide investigation
shows that we are making a mistake.
Only 11.9 per cent of hmses now on
fa1ms are unde1 foul years of age,

paid fer doin’ somethin’ worthwhile,
it’s a fair exchange which ain’t no
robbery.

If I was a regular preacher, this
would be what you call the cycologicul
moment ta take up a collectshun. But
I guess if I was ta take up a collect~
shun I would get just about what this
is worth, which is nothin'.

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wonderful as the electric signs there.
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chewing gum, more people would ap-
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F‘ sixty-five exhibitors at the 1924
International Grain and Hay
Show who used fertilizer on
their corn, sixty state that the added
plant‘food hastened the maturity of
their crop and over one-third of them

report very little difficulty with soft.

corn. Ten of these exhibitors were

_ Michigan farmers.

A Good Seed-bed is Required.

The first step in maturing .corn on
time, according to the experiences of
these good corn growers, is to give it
an early start by planting in a well
prepared seed-bed. Corn is .awarm
weather crop and suffers greatly when
subjected to low temperatures, espe-
cially during the early. stages of
growth. So sensitive to temperature
is this plant that the seed will not
germinate, or it Will do so in only a
half-hearted manner if not properly

\warmed. This characteristic makes it

necessary that the seed~bed be care-
fully worked down.

Since air is a very poor conductor
of heat the sun’s warmth cannot pen-
etrate the soil to a sufficient depth to
stimualte germination of the seed and
early plant growth if the soil particles
are separated from .each other by
small films or pockets of air. It is
essential, therefore, that preparation
of the seed-bed be started early in or-
der that these insulating air films may
be worked out and the soil compacted.
The use of the disk harrow after plow-
ing is one of the most effective meth-
ods of accomplishing this.

The first essential of a good seed-
bed for corn is adequate drainage. Ex-
cess water makes the soil cold and
restricts root development, since the
roots are .unable to penetrate soil be-
low the water line. This restricted
root growth starves the crop when it
«should have an abundance of nutrients
to meet all requirements. A diminish-
ed yield of poor quality corn is the
result.

Excess water in the soil dilutes the
nutrient fluid for the corn. Due to
this unnatur’ally weak food solution,
the plants lose their vigor and sturdi-

_ ness,.become an easy victim to disease,

and cannot withstand physical injury.
Poor drainage is also a handicap in
the early maturing of corn.
Nitrogen Stimulates Early Growth.

, Another method of shortening the
growing period of corn is to give it an
early start. Plenty of the right kind
of plant food will do this. The plant
food that stimulates rapid growth is
nitrogen. The corn should have an
adequate supply of this food element,
but not an over-abundance, since— too
much nitrogen will keep the corn
growing beyond the time for ripening.

‘Soils well supplied with humus, or

those which have been manured re-
cently usually contain enough of this
stimulating element. This is especial-
ly true if the season is warm to en-
courage bacterial activity. On the
other hand, if the season is backward,
the soil bacteria are inclined to be
sluggish and the supply of soluble
nitrogen produced may be insufficient

to meet the needs of the corn. U‘hder'

these conditions and especially when
the soil is quite low in humus, a fer-
tilizer containing from two to four per
cent of available nitrogen should be
used. .
Hasten Maturity with Phosphoric
Acid.

When the corn has been given a
good start the next problem is to in-

72124’ Can the Given.

duce it to ripen at the proper time. It
is impossible for corn to do this. un-
less it has the foods necessary for the
production of the grain, for it must be
remembered that nature’s ultimate

.aim in the growth of any plant is re-

production and this is accomplished
through the formation of viable, well
filled seed. Therefore, if the proper
materials for the producuon of strong,
vigorous seed are not at hand, nature
delays the ripening process until such
food substances can be accumulated.
Since phosphoric acid is especially
active in growth processes and is a.
constituent of the nucleus or heart of
every cell, much of it is stored in the
corn kernel. Naturally, therefore, if
phosphoric acid is not present in sat-
isfactory'amounts proper seed forma-
tion is delayed. Unfortunately, prac-
tically all Michigan soils are more or
less deficient in this essential food ele-
ment, and it is necessary to make good
this deficiency by addition of available
phosphoric acid if rapid maturity and
sound corn, especially good seed corn,
is to be produced.
How Much Fertilizer and How
Applied.

The amounts of phosphoric acid or
other fertilizer which are needed de-
pend on the natural fertility of the
soil, the previous treatment of the soil
and how the fertilizer is to be applied.

On land which is naturally quite
fertile, acid phosphate, containing
from sixteen to twenty per cent of
phosphoric acid, is probably all the ad-
ditional plant food the crop will need.
This is undoubtedly true if manure
is being used, or was used last year.

On soils of medium to low fertility,
manure should be used in addition to
the acid phosphate or else a mixed fer—
tilizer containing some nitrogen, such
as a 4-12—0 should be used. On quite
sandy soils, it may be advisable to
include some potash in the mixture,
making use of. a 3-12-4 or 2-16—2, or
similar analysis.

When plenty of manure is available
it will supply plenty of nitrogen and
potash and we can fall back on
straight acid phosphate which is the
cheapest fertilizer on the market. This
manure, acid phosphate mixture makes
a very reliable, effective and econom-
ical fertilizer.

When one is fertilizing directly for
the corn crop, it is sometimes consid-
ered advisable to apply the plant food
in the hill or row. If this is done the
application should be limited, as there
is always danger of damaging the seed
or young sprout if the fertilizer comes
in contact with it. It is not considered
wise to apply over 125 pounds of fer-
tilizer in this manner, although heav-
ier applications may frequently be
made without damage.

It is a better plan to remember the
whole rotation when fertilizing and to
distribute the applicaiton uniformly
over the whole field. This gives the
following crop a better chance. When
so applied from 200 to 400 pounds to
the acre of either acid phoSphate or
mixed fertilizer may be used.

The selecting of a variety adapted
to your soil and to the climatic condi-
tions of your section of the state is
also an important consideration in suc-
cessful corn growing. There are a

\ number of varieties which have been

thoroughly tested and their soil re-
quirements and suitability for growth
in different sections of the state de-
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“Saving”
* ' 011 in your Ferd

is like I‘m/mg 2‘0 carry me m ore egg

2°71 a full éezséel

ARRYING one more egg in a full basket has been
responsible for more broken eggs than many people
would like to estimate. Of course, there’s no necessity
for dropping the whole basket, but when that one egg
begins to slide, there’s no telling where the thing’s going
to end—until it’s “all happened.”

It’s like a Ford owner trying to save on cheap oil—-
the total possible gain isn’t worth the risk. Suppose
cheap oil would give as good mileage as MobilOil “E”!
Suppose your car would “get by” for a while without
frequent repairs! Even imagine that it would continue
to have lots of power and not quickly develop excessive
carbon and fouled spark plugs! Even granting such

‘ fanciful claims, the saving—at best—could hardly amount
to as much as $5.00 a year!

But with poor or incorrect oil, no Ford will deliver the
power, the smooth operation, the satisfaction and frec~
dom from repairs and expense that the Ford Motor Com-
pany build into every car they make.

And cheap oil, as Ford owners have universally dis-
covered, doem’t begin to give the mileage of Mobiloz'l “ E”.
Even those oils which cost less per gallon than Mobiloil
“E” really cost more per mile—due to the much faster
rate of consumption. [More mile: per quart, more miles of
smoother, more powerful, expense—free operation—these
are the surest guides to economy and satisfaction.

For the differential of your Ford car use Gargoyle,
Mobiloil “CC” or Mobilubricant as specified in the
Chart of Recommendations. For your Fordson tractor,
use Gargoyle Mobiloil “BB” in summer and Gargoyle
Mobiloil “A” in winter.

  
 
 

Let this rig” guide
you to 1020!.“ mm
per-mile.

Branches in principal cities Address NEW YORK, CHICAGO or KANSAS CITY

VACUUM OIL COMPANYT

 


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' 7 - .HE outstanding accomplishment
in the legislature during the
past week was the passage by
, 'the house by a vote of sixtyveight to

twenty-nine, of Senator Howarth’s bill
rearranging the state representative
districts to give Wayne county twen-
ty—one house seats instead of fourteen.
As the membership of the house is

limited to 100, this, of course, means-

that rural districts will have less rep-
resentation in the house in the future.

The passage of this twenty-one—for—
Wayne redistricting bill may well be
likened to a spring thunderstorm. It
was preceded by dark and lowering
clouds, thunder claps and lightning
flashes. Now that it is over the at-
mosphere is clarified. It now seems
probable that the legislature can com-
plete its work in short order.

The senatorial reapportionment bill
which, as passed by the senate, would
give VVtayne two additional senators is
still in the house committee and it is
doubtful if it will ever be reported
out.

* 3k *

HILE tens of millions of dollars

are being appropriated for vari-
ous purposes, farmers may take what
little satisfaction they can from the
fact that the rural appropriations
have been passed at the desired fig-
ures. It will be remembered that some
of these bills were cut in two by the
house, but the senate restored the
amount to the original figures and the
house agreed to the increases.

Among these bills were Representa~
tive Brak’s bill providing $50,000 a year
for the State Department of Agricul-
ture for inspection work and for the
enforcement of grades and standards
of fruit and other farm produce, and
Representative \Varner’s bill allowing
$25,000 annual state aid for each of
the next two year-s for combating the
European corn borer.

Representative Espie’s bill provid-
ing $100,000 emergency appropriation
for carrying on the tuberculosis erad-
ication work among cattle during the
balance of. the present fiscal year has
also been passed by both branches

. By Our Lamihg Correspané’ént

and sent to the governor. Prospects

look bright that the senate will make
material increases to the bill for cur-
rent expenses and agricultural exten-
sion work of M. A. C.

* * *

ECOND only, to reapportionment
from the point of view of import
ance and interest which it is arousing,
is the matter of arriving at the final

conclusions as to the figures to be-
written into the many appropriation,

bill-s, the fate of which is now being
decided.

In general the senate seems to be
much more generous in its attitude to-
ward these budget requests than did
the house. Increases made by the sen-
ate to appropriation bills passed and
sent over by the house are arousing
the ire of the house members. How-
ever, thus far a majority of the repre-
sentatives have voted in favor of
agreeing to the senate increases.

A careful study of the budget bills
now passed and pending shows that
there is every likelihood that the state
general property tax will have to be
about $5,000,000 more this year and
next year than it was last year.

>I4 * 9.:

Y a vote of seventy-three to eight,
the house has passed Representa-
tive Snow’s bill which, it is claimed,
will take the supervision of rural
schools out of politics. At present

rural school affairs are administered‘

by a county commisisoner of schools,
chosen by political election. It is
claimed that in counties having large
cities the present. arrangement often

results in a man retaining this office»

because of his ability to play city
politics rather than his ability'to prop-
erly discharge the duties of his office.

Representative Snow’s bill provides
for the establishment of a county
board of education to consist of five
members to be chosen by popular elec-
tion. Chief among their duties would

be the selection and hiring of a coun-

ty superintendent of schools. The bill
abolishes the oflice'and title of county
commisisoner of schools, substituting
therefore the term, “County Superin-
tendent " of Schools.” By a last min-
ute amendment, adopted by a close
vote, no more than one member of
the county board of education could

come from any one township or cityn

This provision insures the keeping of
the control of rural education free

from big city domination.
:8 II: II:

HE lady member of the house,

Mrs. Cora Anderson, met a serious
reverse when her bill to license and
regulate hair dressers and cosmet-
icians went down to defeat by forty-
two to forty-three. All subsequent ef-
forts to reconsider this vote and re-

vive the issue have proved futile.
* ik *

HE last of the so«called standard-

ization bills has now reached final
approval. This is Representative Kir-
by’s bill amending thepresent grades
for grapes. It was approved by the
senate by a vote of twenty-four to
nothing. Senator Leland’s apple and
potato grading bills had previously
been approved by both the house and
the senate.

The house approved unanimously by
a vote of eighty«three to nothing, Rep-
resentative Brake’s bill providing for
an appropriation of $25,000 for the de-
partment of agriculture for inspection
work in connection with the enforcing
of grades and standards of Michigan
farm products. When this bill reached
the senate committee on agriculture
they promptly increased the amount to
$50,000, which is the amount at which
the bill stood when it left the house
committee on agriculture.

Another rural appropriation bill
which has been increased by the sen-
ate over thhe figure at Which it was
passed by the house is Representative
\Varner’s bill providing funds for com-
bating and suppressing the European
corn borer. Originally this bill pro—

vided for $25,000 per year of state aid.
The house cut the bill to $12,000, but
the senate committee on agriculture
restored the figure to the original
amount of $25,000, and the senate com-
mittee on finance and appropriations
has approved the bill at this higher
week.
it II II:

THE house committee on agricuh
ture has held extended hearings
on Senator Young’s bill to regulate the
sale of live stock tonics in Michigan.
When this bill passed the senate the
manufacturers and dealers in these
condiments became tremendously
alarmed and have been at the capitol
in large numbers during the past
week.

Some minor amendments are being
made to the bill to meet legitimate
objections, and it now seems probable
that it will be passed. In an attempt
to secure its defeat all sorts of ex-
travagant statements haVe been made
by the opposition. For instance, it has
been. charged that the bill would re-
quire each stock tonic dealer to pay
$25 per year for each tonic he hand-
led. The truth is, that only the man-
ufacturer would have to make any
such payment. One $25 fee would per-
mit the unlimited sale of any legiti-
mate product within the state. Neith-
er does the bill require the printing of
the secret formula, as has been charg—
ed. It merely provides for the print-
ing of the names of the ingredients,

with the proportion of certain speci-.

fied drugs and chemicals which are

especially potent.
as * *

HE house has passed unanimously

Representative Black’s bill for the
extension of the time for paying tax-
es without penalty, from January 9
to February 1. This bill has been held
up by the senate committee on taxa-
tion, but it is thought that it will be
reported out favorably in the near fu-
ture. Sponsors of this proposal declare
that it would allow for the more order-
ly marketing of farm products
as it would give more time for mar-
keting.

 

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I bought a farm and as I did not
have enough money to pay cash, A,
the party I bought from, took a mort-
gage against the farm. I borrowed
money from B. to pay A. off, and then
the bank charged one-halt percent on
every dollar borrowed from B. Who
must pay the one—half per cent, I or
B.‘.’~wl{. K.

That depends on the terms 01' the
contract. The chances are that the
half per cent is the mortgage tax. The
one who borrows the money must pay.

TO IMPROVE SANDY LANDS.

What kind of crops should I sow on
a piece of sandy land which has not
much humus in it? It has also laid
idle for about three years. I intend
to plow this spring. What kind of a
crop would you advise me to sow?
This crop will be plowed down about
September 1 and re—sown to be plow-
ed under the following spring.——R. N.

Soy-beans, sweet clover, vetch and
Mammoth clover are frequently used
to improve sandy lands. In the south-
ern part of the state soy-beans are
especially valuable since they are not
so sensitive to soil acidity as the oth-
er crops. If the soil is not acid or if
lime can be used, sweet clover is es-
pecially good. Mammoth clover fre-
quently catches on soils that are a
little too acid for sweet clover.

 

  

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Soy-beans are usually sown the lat-
ter part of May in twenty—eight-incn
rows at the rate of from thirty to
forty pounds of seed per acre. Man-
chu, Ito San and Black Eyebrow vari-
eties are well adapted to Michigan con-
ditions.

Sweet clover should be seeded dur—
ing the early spring at the rate of
from twelve to fifteen pounds of scar-
ified seed per acre. The seed—bed
should be well firmed.

Vetch may be sown during the
spring with oats. August seedings of
rye and hairy vetch are frequently
made. A bushel of rye and twenty
pounds of hairy vetch seed per acre
is the amount most frequently used.

Soy-beans, sweet clover and vetch
seed should be inoculated. Mammoth
clover is usually seeded during the
early spring with a small grain crop
as a nurse crop.~C. R. Megee.

ROADSIDE TREES.

 

Should like to know about the re-
moval of a tree on roadside, to which
road fence is nailed. Have permission
from the highway commissioner and
have since heard that he has not such
authority. Now if this permission does
not free us from liability then please
advise us as to what steps should be
taken to lawfully remove tree which
has been struck by lightning—E. G.

The trees along the highWay belong

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to the owner of the abutting land,
subject to such regulations by the
highway commissioner to provide for
the safety of the traveling public dur-
ing removal of the trees as he shall
deem prudent. No further authority
for removal is necessary—Rood.

TENANT ON FORECLOSED FARM.

 

I rented some land for shares, on a
place that will be mortgage-foreclosed
in the early fall. Can the mortgage
holder claim my share of the crops
raised on this land?——H. V.

The rights of tenants under leases
made after the mortgage is recorded
are subject to the rights of the mort-
gagee. If the crops are removed be-
fore the expiration of the equity of
redemption, the mortgagee has no
claim on them.~Rood.

 

LIME ON POTATOES.

 

Will lime cause potatoes to get
disease? My soil seems acid. Should
I lime it at some other time than when
I put potatoes in?—L. R. S.

Heavy applications of lime some-
times cause potatoes to be badly dis-

eased. This is due to the fact that
the lime corrects soil acidity and
makes conditions favorable for the

growth of the organism that causes
the disease on the potato.
I would suggest that you lime as

MENTj

you prepare the seed-bed for the al-
falfa crop. It Would be well for you
to have the county agricultural agent
or the soils department at the college
test your soil for acidity and advise
you more definitely concerning the
amount of lime that should be applied.

It should be remembered that it re-
quires threefourths as much hydrated
lime to neutralize soil acidity as of
ground limestone. An average appli-
cation of ground limestone is two tons
per acre. It would require then, about
3,000 pounds of hydrated lime to cor«
rect the acidity.

In 'view of the fact that hydrated
lime costs, in most, all cases, twice as
much as ground limestone, it is usu-
ally more economical to use ground
limestone—C. R. Megee.

NO LICEN‘SE FOR STANDS.

 

Is it necessary to start a small
lunch counter with a license? I have
cigars and candy. coffee and tea, and
milk for sale. It will be at a three
corners of M-12 and M-84 in Mackinac
county—J. H. P .

We find no provision for licenses for
eating places outside of cities and vii.

lages.,—-Rood.

 

In what state is there a law which.
grants a mother’s pension. and what
is wording of such law?-—Reader

Am not aware of any.—-Rood./

 

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p11“ Growers;-

M eermg at Traverse City Full of Optzmmn
forty t9 eighty potatoes to twenty

, ENDENCIES in the potato in-
it dustry appear to be in the direc-
». J ‘ tion of growing table stock near-
or to the great centels of consump-
tion, according to Prof. J. T. Horner,
of the Michigan State College, who
addressed the Michigan Potato Pro-

 

ducers’ Association at Traverse City

last week.
This change has become possible,

said he, with the development of ade-'

dilate sources of reliable seed North-
ern Michigan is gaining an enviable
reputation in this respect. Seed pota—
toes that carry a value twice that of
table stock, together with seeds and
products like butter and cheese, which

'Qcan afford to carry the necessary

freight costs and still leave a profit
to the glower me the ploducts f01
fa1mers in northern Michigan. P1of.
Horner stated that there is a poten-
tial demand for at least 7,000,000 bush-
els of certified seed with the area nat-
urally served from this state.

Five matters of importance to certi-
fled seed growers were emphasized by
Professor Horner as follows: (1)
Broaden the demand by keeping be-
fore users the advantages 01‘ certified
seed stock. (2) Persist in making the
seed of the highest quality. (3) Grow
What the market demands, for it is
easier to sell people what they want
than to force upon them something
else. (4) The home market is the best
market and we should develop it. The
southern Michigan growm's have use
fo1 a l1und1ed- fold 11101 t“(.Ll‘l.lflOd spuds
than they ale now using. (5) Do not
invite stiong competition f10m those
who are not in a position nor a1 e prop-
erly trained, to grow quality seed, by
forcing prices too high.

Have we Over-done the Potato
Business?

It was the opinion of Michigan’s vet-
eran grower, Jason \Voodman,ol‘ Paw
Paw, that either the weste1n ploduce1
of potatoes would have to get out 01
the business, in pa1t, at least, or We of
the east would be obliged to devote
mo1e of our efforts to othei blanches
of fanning. Mr. Woodman feels that
America’s production is now a bit too
heavy for her capacity to consume.
Agriculture will, he believes, be hand—
icapped so long as there are surpluses
beyond the needs of the people.

The one line farmer is usually poor.
Good years tempt him to continue tak-
ing chances; but the odds too often
are against him. Mr. Woodman ad-
vises a balanced farm program, and
it is in such a program that potatoes
should be produced. This can be made
up by adding to a well-legumated crop
rotation a reasonable amount of live
stock. Then the farmer would have
more manure, more strawstacks, less
barren land, and a higher percentage
of humus in his soils. More uniform
production and a better quality 01‘
potatoes would result. Also, the intro-
duction of other cash crops with still
other sources of income would tend to
increase agricultural stability.

An Outstanding Market Exists.

The unusual advantages of farming
in Michigan comes from the fact that
the best home market in all the world
is immediately available, stated Hon.
John I. Breck, of the State Department
of Agriculture. The southern half of
the state lies in the world’s greatest
industrial activity. Our farmers should
not shut their eyes to this fact, but
rather should build their business to
make the utmost of such an advan-
tage.

Good Seed Must Win its Spurs.

Certified seed will win because it
means greater economy in supplying
the American people with potatoes,
stated H. B. Losey, of Elmira. Good
potatoes must be given for good dol-
lars, so we should consider sorting cer-
tified potatoes as a finishing process
of a specialized business. He advised
shipping only those that contain\ from

Alba.

pounds. His ideal type was eighty per
cent as wide as long, and sixty per
cent as thick as wide. The seedgrow—
er can avoid all injury after digging.
Ill-shaped, over-sized, rotten and froz~
en stock must never be shipped. No
one who plants potatoes want big
specimens. So do not ship them. In
loading, put plenty of straw in the
bottom of the car; this will prevent
injury to the bottom layer of sacks.
Also, in loading, turn brand name on
all sacks up. The impression will be
most favorable.
. Hill Selection of Seed.

Careful selection of seed keeps down
disease, according to F. H. Glidden, of
Type and production is the
foundation of the certified spud busi-
ness. He digs each hill by itself, then
passes along and selects hills th“ ’1. meet
his standards. From year to year he
gradually raises the requirements of
a hill to get into the select class. One

must school himself to turn down good »

hills because they are not the best.
By planting a crop like corn between
the seed plot- and the regular crop,
where they occupy the same field, one
can give visitors a better impression
of his work.

Selecting and Exhibiting Show

Potatoes.

Before you can select show stock
you must grow it, 'was the position
taken by Ernest Pettifor, of Elmira,
who has been prominent in state and
national potato show circles. To grow
ideal potatoes, one must have ideal
conditions.

Vi'hile seed stock is best secured by
hand-digging, Mr. Pettifor finds that
the best show stock is gathered from
behind the digger. He sets the machine

. to get five. From ,the..five bushels he
‘pict‘é'd ins show stock. The specimens

 

should weigh from eight to ten oune
es, be free from disease, particularly
scab, and present a uniform appear-
ance. These specimens are polished
with a. soft clothes brush and arranged
to make an appeal to show visitors,
as well safe the judge.
Varieties to Grow.

In speaking of varieties, George Har-
rison, of Manton, advised that grow-
ers‘ of certified seed stick to those
varieties which are adapted to their
growing conditions. He cannOt raiSe
Early Ohio, to advantage. Irish Cob-
blers do well on his soil and stand dry
weather fairly well. Russet Burbanks
might prove successful in that sec-
tion; while Bliss Triumph has been a.
failure. Since about seventy-five per
cent of the demand coming to Michi-
gan is for Rural Russets, growers
here, who can, should specialize in the
production of this variety. New York
and Wisconsin give much attention to
White Rurals, making the competition
in that variety strong. Cobblers must
be handled like eggs or they will ar-
rive damaged.

The following men were chosen to
guide the destinies of the associations
for the coming year: R. C. Bennett,
of Alba, president; Wm. Bowers, of
Central Lake, vice-president; H. C.
Moore, of East Lansing, secretary“
treasurer; members of the board, J.
F. Brudy, Wolverine; Claude Schmalz-
tied, Levering; Ernest Pettifor, Elmira.

Resolutions were uninamously adopt-
ed calling upon the agricultural col-
lege to develop better strains of sweet
clover and vetch, and to make inves-
tigations as to the value and best
methods of using green manure on
Michigan soils.

What Ails My Soil

T lze “1302/ Doctor”

WOULD like to find out what is
Ithe matter with my soil. I used

to raise large crops of corn, wheat,
and clover, but now I can’t make a
living off it.” These remarks, accom.
panied by the presentation of a sam-
ple of soil for testing were heard hun-
dreds of times by the staff accompany-
ing the soil fertility train which has

Great." Crowds m Southwestern Michigan

just concluded a. most successful tour
of southern Michigan.

If anyone thinks that the matterof
soils is a dry subject and not of much
interest to the farmers of Michigan,
a thirty—minute visit with this train
would have disillusioned him. Approx-
imately 5,000 farmers dropped their
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téét'ed in the laboratory car, the lead-
ing feature of the train. This car
was completely equipped to make
these tests, giving the farmers a
chance to see their ‘oWn samples test:
ed. Over 100 samples of marl were
tested for purity and many of them
containing over ninety-five per cent
carbonates. This will, no doubt, en—
courage the digging and using of marl
by farmers who have .marl deposits
on their farms.

To Battle Creek goes the honor for
the largest attendance and the largest
number of soil samples. Four hundred
and fifty farmers passed through the
cars and 170 samples of soil were test-
ed there. Other cities at which over
100 samples were tested are Kalama-
zoo, Decatur, Coldwater and Eaton
Rapids.

This soil fertility train was operated
by the Michigan Agricultural College
and the New York Central Lines. Drs.
M. M. McCool, C. E. Millar, Messrs.
George Grantham, O. B. Price and J.
S. Hyde, from the soils department,
and Mr. H. J. Gallagher, of the agri-
cultural engineering department, rep-
resented the college. Mr. E. J. Leen-
houts, agricultural agent for the New
York Central Lines, was in charge of
the train. Among the distinguished
visitors who spent some time with the
train were Mr. R. J. Baldwin, director
of extension; Mr. E. C. Mandenberg,
of the State Department of Agricul~
ture, and Mr. E. H. Anderson, manager
agricultural relations, New York Cen-
tral Lines.

The outstanding fact brought out by
the tests was that over ninety per
cent of the samples submitted showed
a limestone requirement of at least
two tons to the acre. Three Oaks and
Quincy were the exceptions to this
condition, but even there over sixty
per cent showed an acid reaction. An-
other interesting fact gleaned from the
“prescriptions” handed out by the
“soil doctor” was the recurrence of the
clause, “200 pounds of acid phosphate
on this land will be a mighty good in-
vestment.” In other words, the diag-
nosis as arrived at by the “soil doc-
tor” is-“Acidity accompanied by low
phosphoric content and general de-
creased SOil fertility.” The remedy is
“two tons of limestone, 200 pounds of
phosphoric acid and a generous supply
of legumes in the rotation.”

\Dr. M. M. McCool, who served as
“Soil Doctor” during a portion of the
trip, said, “My eyes have been opened
to the seriousness of our soil prob-
lems and to the method of handling
them.‘ Never before have we had an
opportunity to meet with 350 farmers
a day for fourteen days and discdss
their individual problems with them
on their own ground with a sample of
soil and the results of the tests be-
tween us. There are so many factors
entering into the soil problem, both
previous treatment and natural condi<
tions that it can be handled only by
individual work of this kind. It was a
treat to see the farmers lining up
with their samples and to have this
opportunity to visit with them. I call
it an unqualified suCcess. We appre-
ciate the assistance given us by the
New York Central Lines.”

Mr. W. H. Hill, general agricultural
agent for the New York Central Lines,
who spent several days with the train
said, “The college has extended a.gen«
uine service to our patrons in south-
western Michigan. We are pleased {to
know that over 4,700 farmers took ad«
vantage of it. The wealth of Michi‘
gan lies in her soils; her strength lies
in the proper development and main-
tenance of these soils.” ' '

If seed of a. suitable variety, which
has been carefully stored and tested,
is planted in a well prepared seed-bed
and adequate amounts 'of properly bal-
anced plant VfoOd are supplied, the
farmer has gone far toward insuring a.

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MICHIGAN Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin states that appli-

cations of an available form of nitrogen are essential if the spring is

l cold and wet, and recommends that Nitrate of Soda should be used as a top
dressing and not drilled in with the seed.

Extensive demonstrations conducted in 1922 and 1923 have shown that in
Michigan as elsewhere Nitrate of Soda alone and in conjunction with Acid
Phosphate produces very large and profitable increases.

Our bulletins about growing Sugar Beets and other crops are yours for the
asking. Just fill in and mail the coupon.

Chilean Nitrate 0f Soda —— Educational Bureau
Dr. William S. Myers, Director, 25 Madison Avenue, New York

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Does the biggest, most necessary job
in crop raising. Insu res investment in
crops and increases yield from 50 to
200 per cent. Eliminates bugs, mold
and blight. Quickly sprays potatoes,
tomatoes, garden truck, cabbage,
cucumbers, pickles, tobacco, beans,
sugar beets, celery, etc.

The Eureka has i, 2 or 3 nozzles per
row and 4, 6 or more rows per boom.
Wheels adjustable to Various width
rows. 60 to 100 gal. tanks with double or
triple action pumps. May be equipped
for spraying orchards and bushes.

In stock near you. Write to-
day Ior catalogue on Eureka
Sprayers and Potato Machines

Eureka Mower Co. Box 1408 Uticl. N.Y.

    
    
        
     
   
         
       
      

  

 

    
      
 
    
 
   
  
 

SEEDS-W CORN

Will yours grow and mature? If not. I have a good
supply that was carefully gathered and dried last
fall. This spring it tested 90% string germination.
I may be able to supply you if you don’t put. it all

too long.
Ralph Arbogast,

Union City, Michigan.

 

    

FUNGI

“It never rains but it pours”
——insects and fungi make
combined attacks upon your crops. Get both
with one spray material. Use the dust or
spray whose high percentage of arsenic ox—
ide means sure death to insects and whose
high copper content means speedy cure for
fungus growths. Supply yourself at once
with the two-in-one and powerful compound.

PBK
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So strong that a S-lb. package ($2.50 worth)
will effectively treat a whole acre of truck,
tobacco, etc. Yet sale—will not burn. Sticks
light l-lb.package,55 cents. Send for Spray—

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BREE years ago I decided to
make ‘a garden on a. small piece
of ground back of my house.
The people who lived on the place be-
fore me had used this backyard as a.
dump.

You would be surprised at the

things I dug out of that ground! There

were old coins (only two cents), cas-
seroles, bottles, tin cans—I simply
can’t tell you all that I found. I had
to cart two wagonloads of coal ashes
off the ground before I could reach the
soil. Then, when I finally struck soil,
I found it filled with stone. I built a.
stone wall on one side of the garden
with stones removed.

But what I started out to say is,
if you have any soil (if you could call
it soil) like mine (after I got through
carting junk away), plant beans. They
are your best bet. I tried a little of
everything the first year and the sec—
ond year, but the only thing that real-
ly grew a crop was beans—bunch and
pole, and wax, string and lima. Beets
were a. “filvver;” tomatoes averaged
one fruit or berry (take your choice)
per vine; lettuce grew an inch high
and rested; peas grew six inches high,
turned yellow and died; and likewise
every other crop failed but beans.

The third season the soil was in
pretty fair shape, and tomatoes were
successful. But nothing has done bet-
ter than beans. This doesn’t mean
beans should be planted on the worst
soil you have. But if your soil refuses
to be tickled into growing anything
else, try beans. I’ll bet you will get
more of a crop with beans than with
anything else.

Now, a word as to varieties: I ac-
tually believe most of the failures are
due to poor varieties rather than to
poor soil. There is no end of varie—
ties, but not all are good. ‘

Of the snap beans, Stringless Green
Pod and Red Valentine are two good
varieties. If you want a. wax bean,
use German Black Wax or Brittle
Wax. Two good varieties of pole beans
are Kentucky Wonder and Cornfield
bean. Another good one is Scotia.
bean. The Kentucky Wonder is a
week or ten days earlier than Corn-
field bean, and so the two varieties
may be mixed and only one Set of
poles, or one trellis, used.

I am just old—fashioned enough that
I think there is nothing better than
poles for beans to climb on. Some
folks don’t like to bother with poles,
though, and use a. wire trellis instead.

Another method that works very
well is this: Stretch a. wire about five
feet above the ground on a line of
posts midway between two rows. in
one row plant a. mixture of Kentucky
Wonder and Cornfield beans and in
the other row plant pole limu beans.
Poles or canes are stuck in the soil
along both these bean rows, leaned on
the wire and tied in place. It" the
poles extend two or three feet over
and above the wire, all the better. The
polesnap beans will cover the pole
early in the summer and produce their
crop. As the vines of the pole beans
die down, the lima bean vines from
the opposite row Will climb the poles
and produce beans from late summer
until frost in the fall. By this method
of trellising, one trellis will be occu—
pied by bearing beau vines from early
summer until frost.

As to varieties of lima beans, I have
never tried anything better than Car—
pinteria for the pole kind and Ford-
hook for the bush kind.

 

STORY OF MY BEAN CLUB WORK.

 

ENROLLED as a. bean club member

again this year because I am inter-
ested in the raising of beans.

The object of the Boys’ and Girls’

- Clubs is to introduce better seed beans

into the community. I have sold seed

 

. Getting Resultsfirom aPoor Grardeflijpot ‘ i. V

beans to three of our neighbors and
several others have spoken for more
this year. ./

The bean crop is one of the most
important money crops/in the state at
Michigan, although beans cannot be
raised in all parts of the state, espe-
cially in the souther. pal-r, ouaccount
.of the bean weevil. But for all that
it is one of the leading states in the
production of beans.

My father gaye me thechoice of
Itwo aids for my beans. The field I
selected was high and rolling, of 3.
good clay loam with a tile running
through the center. It was fall plowed
and worked up good in the spring. It
was planted the fourth of June and in
about a. week I was glad to see that I
had a good stand. I cultivated them
on the twenty-sixth of June for the
first time. I went through them three
times after that, on the fourteenth,
the twenty-eighth of July, and the
ninth of August. They grew fast and
we started to harvest them on the
eleventh of September. We had very
good weather to harvest them. I had
them threshed on the twenty-sixth of
October. Our thresher said they were
the best beans he had threshed, be-
cause they did not have the blight. I
received 182 bushels from the ten
acres. I sold them at $3.00 a. bushel-
$546. I sold the pods for $20. Total
income, $566—my expenses Were
$165.45——net profit, $400.——Lynn W.
Shaw, Charlotte, Michigan.

I PASS THE TOMATO STAKING UP.

 

STAKING has some good points, but
life is too short and we have too
much to do to spend the time neces-
sary to take care of staked tomaotes.
I staked a couple of rows one year
and pruned them in accord with the
best known methods. They bore fine
fruit, could be planted closer, and rip-
ened considerably earlier. Good so far.
I went over those tomatoes every day
to pinch out new branches starting
,and if I missed a. day I had to re-
move considerable foliage, which is
detrimental. I had to keep tieing up
the canes. In fact, I spent from one
1.0 three hours every morning when I
needed to be doing other things, fixing
up those tomatoes, and ten days after
they began to bear other plants set at
the same time without staking, were.
hearing as good fruit almost, and kept
it up all summer without any petting,
though they asked a lot more room.—
A. H.

 

LOCATING MY PERENNIAL GAR-
DEN.

LIKE a good perennial garden. It

contains the asparagus, rhubarb,
sage, and other herbs, and a good plot
for horseradish. The latter is not
really grown as a perennial but as it,
sprouts badly and becomes a pest; il‘
other crops are planted where it has
been once I prefer to set it to horse—
radish each year, feeding it liberally.
for the large roots planted will make
a. growth that will not take harm from
the smaller growth of the rootlets left
in the ground. Both asparagus, and
rhubarb want the soil very rich, and
a heavy mulching with stable manure

. each winter is the best way to grow it.

Many use salt freely on the asparagus
as it will keep weeds from growing,
and does not harm the asparagus.
Some have contended if is a benefit,
but I think not.——A. H.

The agricultural department of the
Central Michigan Normal School at.
Mt. Pleasant has found that much of
the 1924 crop of corn of that section
is not fit for seed. A 'goodly portion
of the tested corn does not give sixty
per cent germination. ‘

 
      
     
         
       
           
      
         
         
           
  

 

 

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the experience of. breaking a heifer to
milk. You see, we fruit farmers ‘let
the other fellow raise our cows as our
farms are“ too small for raising’cattle.
I grew tired of having honest farmers
unload wornout, old hay stuflers on
me under the guise of number one
cows, so I decided to raise a cow and
.know just what I was getting. She is
seven—eighths Guernsey and the other
eighth wild cat.

During the first few milkings I went
through a regular performance of pick-
ing up the empty milk pail just about.
the time I was through milking. I had
to comb the manure out of my hair,
and my overalls smelled so bad that
friend wife wanted to drive me away
from the table. I followed all those
nice book instructions about kindness
and moral’suasion, with the result
that the oftener I tried to milk, the
more I had to dodge flying feet. Fin-
ally I grew wise to the fact that a
heifer was of the female gender and
needed to be impressed with the supe~
riority of man. The next time she
tickled my left ear with her dainty
hoof I more or less gently tickled her
ribs with a club. A few lessons of
that kind sobered her down, until now
I milk in comparative peace. I say
comparative because it is still neces-
sary to keep a wary eye on that left
hind foot and the right hind hoof.

Will some one please tell me why a
hen takes such a fiendish delight in
destroying things? Every year Wife
and I plant the flower garden with
many varieties of lovely seed. I have
a chicken wire fence around it about
two feet high. Right near the flower
garden is a freshly plowed orchard.
but those hens turn up their noses at
that fresh ground. We watch them
closely but in spite of all, some few
get into the flower beds and make the
seeds fly through the air. As a result
we never know whether a row will
bring forth zinnias, larkspurs, poppies,
asters or some new fangled kind. Durn
hens, anyway. They are females, too,
and that may account for it.

I am following the plow again these
days and have no trouble at all from
not being able to sleep. We get up at
five, but I know many farmers get up
at four o’clock. That is too early for
me. I find that I‘can get more done
by not wearing myself out right at
the start. We have our early spuds
planted as usual on Good Friday. I
planted the old-fashioned Early Rose
as a trial of the newer sorts convinced
me that the Early Rose cannot be
beat. No one has ever responded to
my request for the old-fashioned peach
blow potatoes, and I fear they are no
longer raised. Tomatoes and early
cabbage are up in the hot-bed, chicks
are peeping around the yard, green is
beginning to show on the buds, and
gooseberries are ready to blossom,
kids bring in bouquets of May flowers,
and I get that tired feeling which
speaks of a fish pole and a can of
worms; all the signs of spring are
here.

Line up the teams, the tractors, the
harrows and grain drill, all ready, now
let’s go, hurrah for the best summer
old Michigan has ever experienced.

INSPECTS POU LTRY FARMS.

 

R. D. C. WEISENER, of the M.

A. C. Poultry Department, has
been in the peninsula during the pres-
ent month inspecting poultry flocks on
the many poultry demonstration farms
of .the district. This service is free to
poultrymen having flocks numbering
fifty or more birds, who carry out in-
structions including the, keeping of
records and making of reports.

 
    
   

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A FOUR-YEAR grain test conducted
by the Michigan Agricultural Col.
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Worthy oats and Wisconsin pedigreed
barley are adapted to Upper Peninsula
conditions. The college estimates that
if these improved varieties of oats
were planted on the 80,000 acres of
oat fields commonly found here, it
would mean an increased yield that
would be worth an additional $350,000
a year.
Likewise farmers would realize $50,.
000 more if they used improved and
adapted variety of barley here noted.

ADOPT RULES FOR ESCANABA
MARKET.

 

HE farmers’ market at Escanaba

has formulated rules in co-opera-
tion with the market-master, which,
it is expected, all farmers who use the
market will adopt. All goods sold must
be guaranteed to be what they are
represented to be or money must be
refunded. Fresh eggs must be stamped
with the correct date when the eggs
were collected. A standard price list
will be arranged and is not to be de—
parted from. Those who do not con-
form to the rules will be expelled
from the market. The board of gover-
nors is composed chiefly of farmers.
CHIPPEWA FARMERS TO GROW

FLAX.

 

SERIES of farmers’ meetings have

been held in the county to solicit
the farmers’ interest in flax produc-
tion.
ship in car—load lots, the cost of trans-
portation will not be too great. Quan-
tity production greatly reduces the
cost of production and of marketing
the crop. A number of farmers have
already agreed to grow flax and to
cooperate in marketing it. To assist
farmers, Who hitherto have had no ex-
perience in flax-raising, the county
agent’s office at Sault Ste. Marie is
prepared to give necessary informa-
tion on request.

In addition to this flax—growing cam.
paign in Chippewa, a series of farm-
ers’ meetings was held late in April
lor the purpose of interesting farmers
in the growing of legumes, such as
clover, peas, alfalfa and sweet clover.
Farmers were permitted to bring a.
sample of their soils to these meetings
for a. short-order test for acidity, since
legumes require lime under such con-
ditions. Mr. J. G. Wells, dairy special-
ist of the college, also talked to the
farmers on dairying.

MANY LINES OF WORK BEING
PUSHED IN GOGEBIC.

 

N mid-April a series 0f farmers'
dairy meetings was held in Gogebic

' county, the total attendance at which

is reported to have been 446. The
average attendance per meeting was
fifty.

As a result of these meetings, it is
stated, several farmers have request-
ed to be included in the Gogebic Cow
Testing Association to be organized
early in May. A dozen farmers be-
came interested in alfalfa plots and
two dozen in sweet—clover as a means
of improving pastures. Wolverine cer-
tified oats will be seeded on twenty
farms, together with Wisconsin pedi-
greed barley, while many more will
grow root crops, such as rutabagas and
mangels. Much information was
sought and received relating to poul—
try culture, indicating a greater in-
terest in this line of endeavor. Soil

tests were requested by sixteen farm-
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the soil were largely ordered. All this

would seem to show that the insti-r

tutes were highly productive of re-
sults. They were conducted by Mr.
J. G.‘ Wells, M. A. C. dairy specialist,
and C. E. Gunderson, county agricuL
tural agent. _

A group of Gogebic farmers have
organized a Guernsey association, and
will employ only a purebred sire. The
pure—bred Guernsey sire was purchas-
ed locally and will be kept at a cen<
tral point in charge of a care-taker
paid for by the association.

GETS NEw CLUB LEADER. “

 

R. MERTON WRIGHT, of Wis-

consin, has been appointed assisb
ant state leader of county agents for
the Upper Peninsula to succeed Mr. A.
GQKettunen, recently promoted to the
position of state club leader for Mich‘
igan. Mr. Wright has been in charge
of club work in one of the Wisconsin
counties.

ANNOUNCES IMPORTANT FOR-
ESTRY MEETING.

 

LATE in May there will be a very

important conference on conserva~
tion held at Gladstone in connection
with the annual spring meeting of the
Upper Peninsula Sportsmen’s Associa‘
tion. The main theme of this confelu
ence will be forestry, and a number of
men prominent in the state and nation
in relation to this subject will be pres-
ent. It is planned to have in attend<
ance delegates of farmers’, sports-
men’s, lumbermen’s and other organi-
zations interested in reforestation.
The details will be announced a little
later on, but this will undoubtedly be
one of the most important meetings
of the kind ever held in this territory.
One of the speakers will be Mr. J. A.
Dolle, recently named executive secre-
tary of the Izaak Walton League of
Michigan, while another will be Dr.
Raphael Zon, of the United States
Forest Service Experiment Station, St.
Paul, Minnesota.

GIVE YOUR FARM A NAME.

 

FIAT attracts a person more as

he is passing by than a name
attractively printed telling the world
that the farmer is proud enough of his
farm to give it a name.

There are many places that the
name may be printed. Many farmers
have the name of the farm printed on
the barn, but this is not always the
case since all farm barns are not al-
ways clearly visible from the main
road. In this case a board well con-
structed and substantially built gives
more weight. These signs may be used
to advertise the farmer’s surplus
crops and to advertise what he needs.

Care should be exercised in choos‘
ing the name. In most cases there is
something locally that influences the
farmer in naming the farm. “Blue
Ridge Farm,” “Maple Leaf Farm,”
“Ripple Wave Farm,” “Indian Creek
Farm,” Orchard Lake Dairy Farm,”
“Oak Grove,” “Happy Hollow,” and
many other suitable appellations are
suggested by the particular environ-
ment of the community.

FAIR DATES ANNOUNCED.

 

HE Upper Peninsula Fair Associa-

tion has arranged fair dates for
the various fairs of the district as fol-
lows: Alger county, Sept. 1 to 4;
Chippewa county, Sept. 1 to 6; Delta
county, Sept. 9 to 16; Gogebic county,
Sept. 9 to 12;» Houghton county, Sept.
23 to 27; Iron county, Sept. 1 to 4;
Luce county, Sept. 8 to 10; Mackinac
county, Sept. 15 to 17; Marquette
county, Sept. 9 to 13; Schoolcraft
county, Sept. 23 to 26.

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mouthful when he dictated this
line of the famous old lyric,
'1‘There’s'3No Place Like Home.” John
was right in one sense of the word,
but he should have added that it de-
pends on whose home it is. It does

I ',make a difference, don’t it? I heard a

confirmed bachelor make this crack
«not so very long ago: “Woman’s
place is in the home, but not mine.”
Do you see? All right, then, if you’ll
tune in to wave length 50-50 you’ll find
me on the air with another bed-time
story.

Some weeks ago, one of Uncle Sam’s
mail companiOns stopped at our pala-
tial country mortgage long‘enough to
drop a letter in the box and it turned
out to be an
friends of ours to come down and
spend the week-end with them in the
city. Week-ends are right where I
shine. I’ve got one on the end of my
neck. So,.to make an elongated story
abbreviated, as the bards would say,
a few days later found me and one
million dollars worth of feminity dec-

orating the front seat of one of De-,_

troit’s celebrated toys, and heading
so_uth by southeast in the general di-
rection of Florida, only about a thou-
sand miles this side. The second day
of the pilgrimage sees our hero and
heroine drifting into the big town, and
you can take that word "drift” both
ways. The roads were full of them.

Now, when it comes to city navigat-
ing, I’m sure a dumb—bell, and no fool-
ing, I couldn’t find the jail without in-
sulting a cop. Goodness, I almost for-
got to mention that these friends,
whom we were about to honor so high-
ly, went by the unusual name of Smith
and that monicker is as plentiful in a
city as alleys. They had told us they
lived in the “A Minor” flats and, as I
had their address bottled up in a wal-
let on my hip, I managed to induce a.
minion of the law to draw me a blue-
print of the location.

An hour later we pulled up alongside
a building that looked like a hospital.
Honestly, it did. We had no idea the
place they lived in was as big as that.
It loomed up like a bunion»; and so
many windows in it, really, it would
give you a pane. That building “could
have comfortably housed our entire
township, back home, including the
stock. It’s what you might call living
cooperatively. Twenty years ago they
called them “tenements.” It’s the
same idea on a mere elaborate scale.

Nobody waved at us out the window,
but we deForded and headed right
down the walk for the front door. Now,
can you imagine anybody going to the
front door of a. house to make a call?
Neither can I. In the country, if any-
one would dare go to the front en-
trance they’d stand a good chance of
getting shot for trespassing. A front
door on a country home is as useless
as another wart. Us, farmers shun
them like they was the black plague.
In town, if anybody comes to the back
door, it’s either the ice-man or your
bootlegger.

Anyway, I gives this front door a
lot of hard knocks without raising any-
thing but a blister, till finally some
jane slid up behind us, opened it like
she owned the joint, and walked in.
We followed right on her run-over
heels and landed in what we after-
“wards found out was the vestibule.
Naturally, you’d think, after getting
through one door, that your entrance
examinations Were over, but, believe
me, you’re just starting to matricu-
late. Honestly, it would almost take a
burglar to get in one of those build-
ings. ‘ They’re easier to enter than
the U. S. Mint.

On one wall of the ‘vestibule was a
series of mouthpieces with a push-but-
ton under each one, ‘and the lady who

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preceded us walks up to one of these
tubes, 'gives the button a shove and
somebody somewheres in the building
says, “Hello.” Our guide introduced
herself and gets her passport. So I
eased over to the chart on the wall,
gave it the double‘O and found, much
to my surprise, several Smiths listed.
You’d have thought it was the Smith-
sonian Institute. But I found the
Smith I was interested in, gave their
bell a couple of dings and I got the
"who goes there” from the other end
of the line.

After identifying ourselves we were
told to come on up. Nice of ,them,
wasn’t it? Just think of going through
all that trouble. In a year or two it
wouldn’t surprise me in the least if
you would have to have your finger-
prints taken and be examined by the
board of health before you could make
just an informal little call on a flat
dweller.

By the time we’d done three flights
of stairs I could see how a guy could
love a home like that. He’d have to.
We walked down a long hall till we
came to a door marked “M.” There’s
another place where you’ve got to use
your head. Every door was lettered,
and think What might happen if you
would ‘come reeling home late some
night and mistake the letter “C” for
“G.” You could get yourself into all
kinds of hot water.

The Smiths took as much pride in
showing off their little kennel as you
would in displaying a ton litter. I had
heard about these town apartments
being small, but small would hardly
describe this one. It was even smaller
than minute. I honestly believe that
you could stand in the center of their
home and paper the whole flat without
moving a step. If you’d get six people
in their living-room you’d be closer
than humidity. I wondered what
would happen if a gang of hay—balers
would land there about ten minutes
to six. In the bathroom there wasn’t
room enough for yourself and a towel
at the same time. City people are ac-
customed to being cramped all day
and they learn to love it.

I don’t blame the bird that owned
the institution. Here’s his idea. He
gets a mere $85 per month for each
one of these little coolers and the
more apartments he can crowd under
the same roof the more eighty—fives
he pockets. In this building there
were forty, so you can figure his
monthly stipend. Financially speak-
ing, its a mom profitable business to
raise 1ents than crops. In the country
forty families would be sp1ead over
an entire township. Here they were
on one city lot. If you wished to go
over to your neighbors for the even-
ing, you simply put on your slippers
and stepped casually across the hall.
The other night we wanted to play
pedro with some of our neighbo1s and,
by the time we’d get all our winter
duds on—a1ctics, overcoats, earmuffs,
etc. ,——hitched the horse and cutter,
drove over to their place, unhitched,
put the skate in the barn, and got in-
side the house, we had consumed just
a cold hour, and mighty cold, too.
That’s one advantage in their favor.

But the flat dweller can’t look out
his window and see who’s coming, can
he? The first intimation they got that
someone is going to call is when the
bell rings. We watch folks coming a
mile down the road and try to figu1e
out who it can be.

This that I am about to relate is a
fact: I got an order last year from a
city flat dweller for two dozen cans of
canned goods, and the order speafied
to only send two cans each week until
the order had been filled as there
wasn’t room for more than two cans
at a time in their apartment. Could
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but wait till I tell you where the bed
was hid and you'll see why they didn’t
have even storage‘under it. When it
came time to hay, Smith opens a
closet door leading off the living-room
and there, hanging on the inside of
that door was what he called an in-a-
door bed. I had hard of doors being
a jar, but never a bed, and I’ll say it
just about took the ribbons.

Home, to lots of those babies“ is
just a place to change clothes.

And you hear all kinds of gossip
about the racket that goes on around
a farm house in the early morning
when folks are supposed to sleep.
Even songs have been written about
the old rooster, or the “Clarion call of
the Chanticleer;” you know the stuff.
Let me tell you something. A farm
house is a morgue compared to a city
apartment, or at least the one we
tried out. In the country the chickens
at least know when to sleep. In the
city they don’t. Out all hours and
there is one continual din from six
A. M., to five fifty-nine A. M. Now,
we have some guinea chickens, and,
you know what a lot of noise an ambi-
tious young guinea can unbutton if
he wants to. A whole flock of those
barnyard canaries couldn’t waken an
apartment house baby. With automo-
biles batting around all hours of the

Radio Brings

CCORDING to Roger W. Babson,

well-known statistician, our farm
folks who were lured away from the
farm by automobiles are A being
brought back home by the radio.

Mr. Babson believes that the radio
is rapidly changing our lives and hab—
its as a nation. Automobiles changed
our lives materially. They widened
our horizon through easy and quick
transportaton. We had remained
pretty well within a radius of five
miles, but motor cars expanded our

 

individual world to a radius of fifty
miles or more.

Now, along comes the radio which
expands our world to a radius of sev—
eral thousand miles as we sit right in
the comfort of our own homes and
firesides. Indeed, we are practically
obliged to stay at home to listen in,
thus by sitting at home we can best
go abroad.

* * *

RECENT radio survey brings out

the fact that farm folks want more
real farm radio service. They like in-
structional lectures on agricultural
topics, but they ask that these be lim-
ited to twenty minutes on the average.
1They don’t like long~winded speeches
in public halls and they don’t like
them on the radio. The fact that a
great deal of agricultural extension
{work can be done through radio
broadcasting stations is made appar-
ent through the work of the Michigan
State College.

 

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IRE that has been bent is likely
to break if an attempt is made
to straighten it and even if it does
not break, it will be weak where the
bend occurred, or, due to the crystal-
lization at this point, it may offer

 

high resistance to electrical currents,

{especially radio currents.

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* * it

HE lead-in wire should be guyed

away from the side of the building
at least three feet, otherwise much of
the energy picked up by the aerial will
be dissipated into the walls and where
the aerial enters the building it should
be led through either a rubber or
porcelain tube.

#1111: "

F your radio, receiver has not been
giving the best results during the
past few weeks, and your A and B bat-
teries are up to their proper voltage,
and you want to be assured of good

what not, 'It' was six,
than bedlam. '
At that, It's all in getting used to
it. If a person wants a quiet little
nap nowadays, he’s almost got to go
to a cemetery to get it. We have a.
bedroom right on our ground floor and
the driveway runs alongside of it.
Last summer, a couple from the city
were up on a visit and they occupied
that bedroom. At 4:30 the next morn-
ing after they arrived, they were

awakened by one of our leather-lunged

Wyandotte roosters; but a few min-
utes later a Standard Oil truck pulled
in right alongside their window and
the driver left his engine running all
the time he filled my tanks. Would
you believe it, the noise of that truck
actually soothed them back to sleep.

Yet, to the Smiths, it was home.
“No place like it.” They were just as
proud and tickled over it as they could
be. Smith had no chores to do, not

/ even a fire to build; no walks to sweep

nor lawn to mow, nor garden to hoe;
no nothing. The only morning chore
he had was to step on the starter of
his car, and at night, when he came
home, to set the emergency and lock
her up. The last thing they’d ever do
would be to trade places with us.

Please don’t say this article sounds
too flat

Th cm Home

reception during the spring months, in-
spect your aerial. All unsoldered con-
tacts should be untwisted, cleaned,
re—spliced and soldered and then cov-
ered with tape. Insulators should be
wiped clean of all soot and one more
inserted at each end of the aerial,
making two in series. You will be

glad of this addition some rainy night.
* =1: :1:

ERIAL and lead-in wires should
always be of copper and should be
amply large. There is a. special cable
made for aerials which consists of
seven strands of No. 20 wire. This is
considered better than a solid single
wire.
* II: :I:
ATCH the water level in the stor«
age battery as the weather be-
comes warmer. It evaporates more
rapidly then than it does in the cold
weather. Distilled water is best to
use in the battery, but carefully fil-
tered rainwater that has not been
standing in a metal vessel will answer
if no distilled water is available.

EVEN THE CANARY LIKES IT.

 

ROM our radio we get the markets,

time, speeches, music of various
sorts, and some of the best sermons
we have ever heard.

On March 4 we heard the inaugural
address as plainly as though Mr. Cool-
idge had been in the room with us.

While we enjoy lectures, etc, we
prefer the musical programs. Popular
music is our choice. Coming in clear
and strong there is nothing more beau‘
tiful than the American folkdore songs.
“\Ve could sit all night and listen.”
We care not for classical music, but
the musical classics, Oh, Boy!

“Old Fiddlin’ ” is our kind. Give us
that and we won’t cry if you leave the
other violin music off entirely.

Give us more agricultural programs
if they are practical and will be of
benefit to us. The whole family en-
joys the radio. Even the canary.

Heretofore, if farm folks wished to
hear good music and lectures they
were obliged to go to the City. The
radio now brings the best to our
homes.

We should like to see a radio set
which is not troubled with “static"
and one that would allow us to shut
off. all other stations except the .1114.
we are trying to rccelve.~ Mae
Warner. ‘ ~ ., -

   

  
      
     
 

 
   
   
  
   
   
 
 
   
  
  
 
   
      
  
    
   
    
  
   
     
   
 
   
         
     
    
   
   
   
  
    
   
   
  
   
  
    
    
  
     
     
   
   
   
    
    
   
  
 

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’ V union; 1:19qu~ Angus" ”:t‘will start
from. the Sepator Norman B.
Horton Farm, Fruit Ridge,~ ten

”miles. south . of Adrian, on vWednesday,
a; ’ the fifth day of the month. The tour
.mana'ger hasbeen over the tour route

and arranged details of camps, recep—--
tionsr programs, etc., along the way.

. It will be the largest. and in may re-
__ spects, the best of all the six previous

annual tours. ,

The first tours were called farmers’
tours, although each year there was
an-increasing number of city and vii-
lage members, and last year nearly
two-thirds of the tour members Lived
in city and village, about one-third ac-
tually living upon and working their
own farms. However, many city mem-
bers own farms and are interested in
farming. -

The city officials and chambers of
commerce in all the fifty or more camp
cities along the tour routes during the
last four years have enthusiastically
and energetically aided and cooperated
with the tour manager, and more than
ever last year. Several banquets
were given the tourists and thousands
of dollars raised for splendid recep-
tions, bands of music, dinners, and
varied programs. Upon urgent and
general application of the chambers
along the 1925 tour route, the tour
manager has promised to conduct the
trip next August as a chamber of com-
merce tour, as well as for the grange,
farm bureau and other civic organi-
zations.

It will be a city and country cooper-
ative community tour this year, just
as it has been for the last four years.
The tour manager has insisted on the
Battle Creek Community Club plan for
holding camp—fire programs each even-
ing along the tour ~route. Big cities
like Wheeling, Pittsburgh, Elmira, Ni-
agara Falls, Syracuse, Poughkeepsie,
New Britain, Springfield, Brockton,
Winchester, Hagerstown, Cumberland,
Akron, Zanesville and Columbus,
through their chambers of commerce
have joined with the grange and other
farm organizations in community pro-
grams in the tour camps that have
brought these cities and the progres-
sive farmers together for the first
time for a better understanding and
hearty cooperation in their mutual
welfare.

The Battle‘Creek Chamber of Com-
merce is cooperating with J. H. Brown,
the tour manager, in arranging the de-
tailsof tour camps and programs with
the chambers of commerce, the grang-
es and other farm organizations, in
the following cities along the tour
route for next August: Adrian city
and chamber of commerce with the
granges of Lenawee county, at the
Horton Farm. The caravan will drive
from Horton Farm to Detroit, August
6, and will be escorted by a reception
committee representing the Detroit
Board of Commerce, Detroit Automo-
bile Club and Wayne,County Road
Commission. The camp will be on the
State Fair grounds.

City and farm organizations will es-
cort the caravan into London, Canada;
Niagara Falls, New York; Rochester
and Canandaigua, New York; Elmira,
Binghamton, Livingston Manor, New—
burgh and Po‘ughkeepsie, New York.
Poughkeepsie city officials and cham-
ber of commerce will join with the
Dutchess county granges and farm. bu-
reau in a fine reception to the tourists
on the fair grounds. Camp there two
nights, with an all-day boat trip down
the Hudson to New York City and re-
turn. Next day drive down the east
side of the Hudson through Tarrytowu
to New York City, where a special
camp will be provided for the caravan
near Bronx Park. Camp there four
days for sightseeing in the city. Then
Vdriveto Philadelphia and camp. One
day for sightseeing in the city, and

 

Atlantic City with its immense bath
ing beach. *-

Next day drive to Baltimore and
camp on the fine farm of B. John
Black, the overseer of the National
Grange, who is also master of Mary-
land State .Grange. One day sightsee
ing in Baltimore, the next day for a
boat trip on Chesapeake Bay, with a.
visit to Annapolis Naval Academy.
Next day drive to Washington, where
the war _department will reserve a
special camp adjoining Potomac Park
tourist camp. Four days in Washing-
ton, with one day for a special excur-
sion by rail to New Market, Virginia,
to visit the Shenandoah and Endless
Caverns. Drive back to Michigan by
Way of Gettysburg, Hagerstown, Cum-
berland, Washington, Pa., Wheeling,
Zanesville and Columbus.

On Wednesday afternoon, August 5,
at the Michigan gathering camp on
the Horton Farm, Lenawee Pomona
and subordinate granges will act as
host to the tourists, as in previous
years. Tour Manager Brown has de—
signed a plan for construction of two
memorial gate piers at the entrance
to the Horton Farm residence lawn.
The eight walls of the two piers will
have over 600 field stones projecting,
one stone being donated by each of
the 600 families who have membership
in the Michigan Automobile Tours or-
ganization.

These two memorial gate piers will
be about four feet square at the base,
three feet square at the top of the
field stone work, and eight feet high.
Each cap stone will be of dark colored
marble, one foot thick and about forty-
four inches square. A bronze tablet
will be erected on the roadside of each
pier, backed by a marble block of
proper size. These two gate piers will
become as famous as the Climax R. F.
D. memorial monument, which was
also designed and constructed by Mr.
Brown.

Stones will be sent from seventeen
states and Canada, representing the
tour membership families. One stone
will come from beside the Plymouth
Rock, and one from the Golden Gate.
One will be sent from President Cool-
idge farm home at Plymouth, Vermont.
One from the depth of the Endless
Caverns in Virginia, and another from
the top of Mt. Negro, in the Allegheny
system. The unveiling of the piers
will be filmed and the metropolitan
press will report and photograph the
scene.

Many cars have been registered for
the tour next August, and those who
wish to plan to get in should write
the tour manager at Battle Creek,
Michigan. There were 214 cars in the
tour last August, and Mr. Brown re-
fused over sixty cars.

 

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P REDACIOUS animals are becoming

scarcer in this region as a result
of the campaign against them which
the department has waged under the
present warden-hunter system. Some
of the counties of the peninsula sup-
plement the work of the state by pay-
ing bounties for such animals killed,
and it is claimed that some of the an-
imals destroyed by the state hunters
in their poison work are subsequently
stolen and taken to counties where
obunties are paid for the purpose of
securing this bounty.

During February state hunters se-'

cured 82 adult and 26 unborn animals,
which included two timber-wolves, 22
coyotes, four bob-cats and 80 foxes.
In addition there were destroyed 127
porcupines, two woodchucks, five
skunks, 40 weasels, 92 crows, 12
hawks, 60 owls, 19 deer-running dogs,
17 house-cats, and 3 5red squirrels.

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themyisr She tom name:
an economy hint to a girl who was
.. figher way through. She bathes
witmher union suit and white‘ stock-
m ton to save laundry soap. Scrubs
’em on'her! ’S the God’s truth.”
Ignto Dirk's mind there flashed a pic-
ture of'this large girl in her tight knit-
Lied union suit and her white- stock-
, ings sitting in a tub half full of water
' and scrubbing them and herself simu1~
taneously. A comic picture, and a re-

   
  

 

 

volting one. Pathetic, too, but he
would not admit that. '
“Imagine!” the frat brother-to-be

was saying. “Well, we can’t have a

fellow who goes around 'with a girl

like that. You got to cut her out, see!

Completely. The fellahs won’t stand

for it.”

Dirk had a mental picture of him-
self/striking a noble attitude and say-
ing, “Won’t stand for it, huh! She’s

‘ worth more than the whole caboodle
of you put together. And you can all
go to hell!”

Instead he said, vaguely, “Oh. Well.
Uh—J’

. Dirk changed his seat in the chm-E'-
room, avoided Mattie’s eye, shot out
of the door the minute class was over.
One day he saw her coming toward
him on the campus and he sensed that
she intended to stop and speak to him
—chide him laughingly, perhaps. He
quickened his pace, swerved a little to
one side, and as he passed lifted his
cap and nodded, keeping his eyes
straight ahead. Out of the tail of ‘his

, eye he could see her standing a mo-
ment irresOlutely in the path.

He got into the fraternity. The fel-
labs liked him from the first. Selina
said once or twice, “\Vhy don't: you
bring that nice Mattie home with you
again some time soon? Such a nice
girl, woman, rather. But she seemed
so young and care—free while she was
here, didn’t she? A fine mind, too, that,
girl. She’ll make something of her-
self. You’ll see. Bring her next week,
h’m?”

Dirk shuffled, coughed, looked away.
“011, I dunno. Haven’t seen her late-
ly. Guess she’s busy with another
crowd, or something.”

He tried not to think of what he had
done, for he was honestly ashamed.
Terribly ashamed. So he said to him-
self, “Oh, what of it!” and hid his
shame. A month later Selina again
said, “I wish you’d invite Mattie for
Thanksgiving dinner. I'nless she’s
going home, which I doubt. We’ll have
turkey and pumpkin pie and tall the,
rest of it. She’ll love it.”

“Mattie?” He had actually forgotten
her name.

“Yes, of course. Isn’t that right?
Mattie Schwengauer?”

“Oh, her. Us—well~I haven’t been
seeing her lately.”

‘ “Oh, Dirk, you haven’t quarrelled
with that nice girl!”

He decided to have it out. “Listen,
Mother. There are a lot of: different
crowds at the U, see? And Mattie
doesn’t belong to any of ’em. You
wouldn’t understand. but it's like this.
She—she’s smart and jolly and every-

thing but she just doesn’t belong.
Being friends with a girl like that
doesn’t get you anywhere. Besides,
she isn’t a girl. She's a. middle—aged
woman, when you come to think of it.”

“Doesn’t get you anywhere!” 'Se—
lina’s tone was cool and even. Then,
as the boy’s gaze did not meet hers:
“Why, Dirk DeJong, Mattie Schwen—
gauer is one of my reasons for send-
ing you to a university. She’s what I
call part of a university education.
Just talking to her is. learning some
thing valuable. I don’t mean that you
wouldn’t prefer pretty young girls of
your own age to go around .with, and

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they would deliver them until death
or a trustees’ meeting should remove
them; The younger professors and in-
structors in natty gray suits and
bright-colored ties made a point of be-
ing unpedantic in the classroom and
rather overdid it. They‘ posed as being
one of the fellows; would dashingly
use. a bit of slang to create a laugh
from the boys and an adoring titter
from the girls. Dirk somehow pre—
ferred the pedants to these. When
these had to give an informal talk to
“ the men before some university event
they would start by saying, “Now lis-
ten, fellahs—” At the dances they

 

 

70 an Oriole ’5 N63!
‘ By C. H. Read

You deep gray pocket of a nest!
So frail, but ever flinging

A challenge to the passing wind
To rend you from your clinging.

At last the wind cast branch and all
This giant elm tree under,

But still untorn your fibers form
A nest of grace and wonder.

Skilled architects your builders were,
With sense of love and duty;
To weave and hang mid swaying
boughs
Their home of strength and beauty.

They plucked the down from out their
breasts
The wee blue eggs to cover,
Then nestled in the soft grey depths
The happy little mother.

The father kept his guarded watch
And gave his note of warning;
And sang from out his little heart

A love song every morning.

The brook beneath them gurgled on
O’er rough and shallow places,
And from the marshy pools be-
yond
The bull-frogs tuned their basses.

The mandrakes scented all the air
From ’neath their spreading covers,
The while you swayed in sun and
shade
The home of happy lovers.

Oh! broken shells, deserted nest!
The quick tears you have started,
I, too, bemoan an empty nest,
And little brood departed.

 

all. It would be queer it' you didn’t.
But this Mattie*why, she’s life. Do
you remember that story of when she
washed dishes in the kosher restau-
aant over on Twelfth Street and the.
n'oprietor used to rent out dishes and
cutlery for Irish and Italian neighbor—
hood weddings where they had pork
and goodness knows what all, and then
use them next. day in the restaurant;
again for the kosher customers?”

Yes, Dirk remembered. Selina wrote
Mattie, inviting her to the farm for
Thanksgiving. and Mattie answered
gratefully, declining. “I shall always
remember you,” she wrote in that let-
ter, “with love.”

HROUGHOUT Dirk’s Freshman

year there were, for him, no
heartening, informal, mellow talks, be-
fore the wood—fire in the book-lined
study of some professor whose wisdom
was such a mixture of classic lore and
modernism as to be an inspiration to
his listeners. Midwest professors dci
livered their lectures in the classroom
as they had been delivering them in
the past ten or twenty years and as

were not above “rushing” the pretty
co—eds.

Two of Dirk’s classes Were conduct-
ed by women professors. They were
well on toward middle age, or past
it; dessicated women. Only their eyes
were alive. Their clothes were of some
indefinite dark stuff, brown or drab-
gray; their hair lifeless; their hands

rlong, bony, "unvital. They had seen
classes andm classes and classes. A
roomful of fresh young faces that ap-
peared briefly only to be replaced by
another roomful of fresh young faces
like round white pencil marks manip-
ulated momentarily on a slate, only to
be sponged off to give way to other
round white marks. Of the two women
onerthe elder-wwas occasionally like-
ly to flare into sudden life: a flame
in the ashes of a burned—out grate.
She had humor and a certain caustic
wit, qualities that had managed mirac-
ulously to survive even the deadly and
mumbling effects of thirty years in
the classroom. A fine mind, and icon-
oclastic, hampered by the restrictions
of a cfiventional community and the
soul of a most congenial spinster.

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on it, thus: '; -

“In the consideration of all the facts
in the case presented before us we
must first review the history and at-
tempt to analyze the outstanding—”

He found himself waiting for that
emphasis and shrinking from it as
from a sledge-hammer blow. It hurt
his head. ~

Miss Lodge droned. She approached
a word with a maddening uh-uh-uh-uh.
In the uh-uh-uh face of the uh-uh~uh-uh
geometrical situation of the uh-uh-uh—
uh—

He shifted restlessly in his chair,
found his hands clenched into fists,
and took refuge in watching the shad-
ow cast by an oak branch outside the
window on‘a patch of sunlight against
the blackboard behind her.

During the early spring Dirk and Se~
lina talked things over again, seated
before their own fireplace in the High
Prairie farmhouse. Selina had had
that, fireplace built five years before
and her love for it amounted to fire-
worship. She had it lighted always on
winter evenings and in the spring
when the nights were sharp. In Dirk’s
absence she would sit before it at
night long after the rest of the weary
household had gone to bed. Old Pom,
the mongrel, lay stretched at her feet
enjoying such luxury in old age as he
had never dreamed of in his youth.
High Prairie. driving by from some
rare social gathering or making a late
trip to market as they sometimes were
forced to do. saw the rosy flicker of
Mrs. DeJong's fire dancing on the wall
and warmed themselves by it even
while they resented it.

“A good heater in there and yet any-
way she’s got to have a fire going in
a grate. Always she does something
funny like that. I should think she’d
be lonesome sitting there like that
with her dog only.” '

They never knew how many guests
Selina entertained there before her
fire those winter evenings—old friends
and new. Sobig was there, the plump
earth-grimed baby who rolled and
tumbled in the fields while his young
mother wiped the sweat from her face
to look at him with fond eyes. Dirk
DeJong of ten years hence was there.
Simeon Peake, dapper, soft-spoken,
ironic, in his shiny boots and his hat
always a little on one side. Pervus
DeJong, a blue~shirted giant with
strong tender hands and little fine gol-
den hairs on the backs of them. Fan«
ny Davenport, the actress-idol of her
girlhood came back to her, smiling,
bowing: and the gorgeous Spangled
creatures in the tights and bodices of
the old Extravaganzas. In strange con-
trast to these was the patient, tireless
figure of Maartje Pool standing in the
doorway of Roelf’s little shed, her
arms tucked in her apron for warmth.
“You make fun, huh?” she said, wist-
fully, “you and Reell‘. You make fun.”
And Roelf, the dark Vivid boy, mis‘
understood. Roell‘, the genius. He
was always one of the company.

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_was not a happy silence.

   

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' 2 ' She: and Dirk; sat-there one IineNthin

sharp evening" in early Aprfl.’ It, was
Saturday. Of late Dirk had not always
come to the farm-for the week-end.
Eugene and Paula Arnold had been
Julie
Arnold had invited Dirk to the gay
parties at the Prairie Avenue house.
He had even spent, two entire week-
ends there. After the brocaded luxury
of the Prairie Avenue house his farml
bedroom seemed almost startlingly
stark and bare. Selina frankly enjoy-
ed Dirk’s somewhat fragmentary ac-
counts of these visits; extracted from
them as much vicarious pleasure as
he had had in the reality—~and more.
probably.

“Now tell me what you had to eat,”
she would say, sociably, like a child.
“What did you have for dinner, for
example? Was it grand? Julie tells
me they have a. butler now. Well! I
can’t wait till I hear Aug Hempel on
the subject.”

He would tell her of the grandeur
of the Arnold menage. She would in-
terrupt and exclaim: “Mayonnaise!
On fruit! Oh, I don’t believe I’d like
that. You did! Well, I’ll have it for
you next week when you come .home.
I’ll get the recipe from Julie.”

He didn’t think he’d be home next
week. One of the fellows he’d met at
the Arnolds’ had invited him to thei‘:
place out north, on the lake. He had
a boat.

“That’ll be lovely!” Selina exclaim-
ed, after an almost unnoticeable mo-
ment of silence—silence with panic in
it. “I’ll try not to fuss and be worried
like an old hen every minute of the
time you’re on the water. Now
do go on, Sobig. First fruit with may-
onnaise, h’m? What kind of soup 1’”

He was not a naturally talkative
person. There was nothing surly
about his silence. It was a taciturn
streak inherited from his Dutch ances-
try. ‘This time, though, he was more
voluble than usual. “Paula—. . .”
came again and again into his conver-
sation. “Paula Paula . . .”
and again Paula.” He did not
seem conscious of the repetition, but
Selina’s quick ear caught it.

“I haven’t seen her,” Selina said,
“since she went away to school the

first year. She must be—let’s see——
she’s a year older than you are. She’s
nineteen going on twenty. Last time

I saw her I thought she was a dark
scrawny little thing. Too bad she
didn't inherit Julie’s lovely gold color-
ing and good looks, instead of Eug-
ene, who doesn’t need ’em.”

She isn’t!” said Dirk hotly. “She’s
dark and slim and sort ol‘—uh——sen-
suous“——Selina started visibly, and
raised her hand quickly to her mouth
to hide a smile—~“like Cleopatra. Her
eyes are big and kind of slanting—not
squinty I don’t mean, but slanting up
a little at the corners. Cut out, kind
of, so that they look bigger than most
people’s.”

“My eyes used to be considered rath-
er fine,” said Selina, mischievously;
but he did not hear.

“She makes all the other girls look
sort of blowzy.” He was silent a mo-
ment. Selina was silent, too, and it
Dirk spoke
again, suddenly, as though continuing
aloud a train of thought, “—all but
her hands.” .

Selina made her voice sound natural,
not sharply inquisitive. “What’s the
matter wtih her hands, Dirk?”

    
  
 

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and. sort ctr-grubby. I mean, it.

makes me nervous to watch them. And
when the rest of her is cool they’re
hot when you touch them"

He looked at his mother’s hands
that were busy with some sewing. The
stufi on which she was working was a
hit of satin ribbon; part of a hood in-
tended to grace the head of Geertje
Pool Vander Sijde’s second baby. She
had difficulty in keeping her rough fin-
gers from catching on the soft surface
of the satin. Manual work, water, sun
and Wind had tanned those hands,
hardened them, enlarged the knuckles,
spread them, roughened them. Yet

how sure they were, and strong, and '
Sud- ?

cool and reliable——and tender.

denly, looking at them, Dirk said, '
“Now your hands. I love your hands,
Mother.”

She put down her work hastily, yet
quietly, so that the sudden rush of
happy grateful tears in her eyes
should not sully the pink satin ribbon.
She was flushed, like a girl. “Do you,
Sobig?” she said.

After a moment she took up her
sewing again. Her face looked young,
eager, fresh, like the face of the girl
who had found cabbages so beautiful
that night when she bounced along the
rutty Halsted road with Klaas Pool,
many years ago. It came into her
face, that look, when she was happy,
exhilarated, excited. That was why
those who loved her and brought that
look into her face thought her beauti-
ful, While those who did not love her
never saw the look and consequent“r
considered her a plain woman.

There was another silence between
the two. Then: “Mother, what would
you think of my going east next fall,
to take a course in architecture?”

“Would you like that, Dirk?"

“Yes, I think so—-yes.” n

“Then I'd like it better than any-
thing in the world. I—it makes me
happy just to think of it.”

“It would-most an awful lot.”

“I’ll manage. I’ll manage. . . .

What made you decide on architec~
ture?"
“I don’t know, exactly. The new

buildings at the university—Gothic,
you knowfiare such a contrast to the
old. Then Paula and l were talking
the other day. She hates their house
on Prairie-iterrible.old lumpy gray
stone pile, with the black of the I. C.

 

trains all over it. She wants her fath-
er to build north—an Italian villa or
French chateau. Something of that
sort. So many of her friends are mov-
ing'to the north shore, away from
these hideous south~side and north-side
Chicago houses with their stoops, and
their bay windows, and their terrible
turrets. Ugh!"

“Well, now, do you know,” Selina
remonstrated mildly, “I like ’em. I
suppose I’m wrong, but to me they
seem sort of natural and solid and un-
pretentious, like the clothes that old
August Hempel wears, so squarecut
and baggy. Those houses look digni-
fied to me, and fitting. They may be
uglymprobably are—but anyway they
They have a cer~
tain rugged grandeur. They’re Chi-
cago. Those French and Italian gim-
cracky things they~they’re incongru-
ous. It’s as if Abraham Lincoln were
to appear suddenly in' pink satin
breeches and buckled shoes, and lace
ruffles at his wrists.”

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grown in. door yards, called
baby’s breaith.‘ Wherever this
has been growmg in yards whose own-
ers love not the Eighteenth Amend-
ment, it will probably be uprooted, as
the delicate flower and perfume are a
rebuke to those who. carry a loaded”
breath. Time was, when a man with
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tory, but now that metaphor is out of
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based enough to imitate him.
Nevertheless, men whose tastes run
to expensive whiskgy are a powerful
minority today. They imagine they
are a majority, and are doing all in
their power to make themselves a ma-
jority. On April 7, an editorial ap—
peared in one of the widely circulated
dailies of the middle west, entitled,
“Prohibition, a Costly Mistake.” This

to enumerate the
evils of the pres-
ent system. The
«price of intoxi-
cants, it'says, is
much more than
in 1920 and any-
body can get all
he wants. En-
forcement has ut-
terly fallen down, and many of the
“best citizens” are open and persistent
flouters of the law. Judges ascend
the bench after drinking bouts, to try
other men for doing what they have.
just done. A preferred criminal class,
says this editorial fire-eater, “number-
ing tends of thousands, cold blooded
outlaws, thugs and murderers, live and
increase, are encouraged, coddled and
enriched by the most respectable por-
tions of society, because they meet the
demand for whiskey.

HE writer next makes a bid for

the parents. Youth, he declares,
are in no way protected. “The evil
which the regulated saloon did was
trivial in comparison with what has
succeeded it.” “We are becoming a
nation of hypocrites and habitual law-
breakers: We harbor assassins and
bandits because they pander to appe-
tite.- Our youth are being ruined. And
we are receiving no adequate compen-
sation.” There should be substituted
for prohibition “moderate but effective
liquor legislation that will produce real
temperance, and above all will save
the youth of the nation from its pres-
ent peril.”

The ludicrous part of this impas-
sioned pro—whiskey, pro—beer, pro-sa-
loon editorial is, its misstatements. It
says that the “best citizens” are doing
all this. That is a new definition. We
had always supposed that the best
citizens were law-abiding, and for the
most part kept out of the criminal
courts. That there is a class of cold-
blooded outlaws, murderers and thugs,
is, of course, true. That many people
of high social position are hypocrites,
liars and law-breakers is likewise pat-
ent. But your editor says not a word
of condemnation of all this. Not a
word. His remedy is to give the hypo-
crites what they want, by opening the
gates, of liquor. Does he imagine that
this will put a quietus on the thugs
and bootleggers? Ordinarily, we think
of the editor of a metropolitan daily
as a man of the world, hard as nails,
a man who knows the wiles, weak-
nesses and wickednesses of men, not
a visionary. But this editor appears
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editorial goes on.

who has theories but no experience.

-'He seems not to know that when the
great cities had the open salami they '

had hundreds ”of blindpigs and other
places where illicit liqudr was sold.
Opening the saloons will not stop the
activities of the bootleggers. If thére
is money in. the business now, they
will see to it that there is money in
it then. > .-

IT comes to ~this, do we ‘want the

saloon back? A wine and beer sa-
loon, or any kind of saloon? It takes
us back to the good old days when a
woman did not dare walk down saloon
row, where every other place of busi-
ness was a thirst parlor. Said ‘3. Mis-
souri farmer, “I would rather have a
bootlegger slinking up every alley in

town than to have one saloon with its .

doors gaping wide to draw in my boys.
There is no danger of our boys be-
coming drunkards as long as they
have to sneak around in order to get
drinks.”

Leading farmers the past/two or
three years made themselves clear on
this issue. In 1922, Mr. Lowell, the
master of the National Grange, said
he believed that ninety per cent of
farmers were dry. The grange is
strong in its prohibition attitude. As
I understand it, no member of this or-
ganization may engage in liquor sell-
ing and remain a member. In 1920,
twenty thousand members attended
the national convention and, in ringing
sentences, declared for the enforce-
ment of the eighteenth amendment. In
1921, the resolutions at the national
convention read, “We stand absolutely
united on a rigidly dry construction
and a drastic enforcement of the pro-
hibition law.”

One farm weekly sentout inquiries
to 221 county agents, to get their opin-
ion on this question. Ninety-five per
cent of them replied that the farmers
were for strict enforcement.

It is well to be reminded that the
earliest temperance organizations in
America were among farmers. In 1789,
200 farmers in Litchfield, Connecticut,
formed the first dry club in the new
world. In 1805 Allentown, Pennsyl-
vania, farmers formed the “Sober So—
ciety,” and half a century later, farm—
ers of central New York drew up the
constitution of the “Independent Order
of Good Templars.” And in 1873 the
“Women’s Temperance Crusade” was
thecenter of influence in Ohio, and it
was organized by farmers’ wives.

T may be necessary for women to

become active again, in this reform.
If the fruits of a century of agitation
are to be stolen by professional
thieves and by law-breakers of the
“best portions of society,” the women
may need to break into print again.

Our personal liberty, of course, is

very sacred, whenwe want to make it

so. But as a farm writer said nicely
a year or two ago, our personal liber-
ties are interfered with by the ten
commandments and the Constitution
of the United States, anyway, so that
we are accustomed to it. People are
always willing that their liberties
should be curtailed, when it brings a
larger good. A man cannot eat mince
pic at midnight and have good diges-
tion—at least, most men can’t. But
they do not mind that, because a good-
natured stomach is of greater import-
ance than midnight lunches. It does
not seem as though there are enough
thirsty people in America to turn back
the hands of the prohibition clock.

 

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR
. MAY 3. .

 

SUBJECTz—The benefits of total ab-
stinence—Dan. 1: 1’ to 20.

GOLDEN TEXTz—Daniel purpose in
his heart that he would not defile

himself with the king’s dainties, nor _

with the wine which

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THE MYSTERY OF ASTHMA.

HE sufferer from asthma. is
much more concerned in know-
ing how to secure relief from it
than finding the cause. Perhaps this
is just as well, because investigations
as to the cause of asthma still remain
unsatisfactory. The type of asthma
most common is that known as “bron-
chial asthma.” It affects both large
and small bronchial tubes, causing
them to narrow in caliber to such an
extent that air is shut off from the
lungs in a most distressing way. It is
this inability to get'air that causes
the gasping and distress of asthma
and constitutes its "pain” feature. Yet
the bronchial, tubes may be just as
good as ever, once the attack has pass-
ed, although old asthmatics often have
enlarged and tortuous bronchioles
from the all too frequent strain.

Asthma is due to taking into the
body some objectionable substance
that induces a contractile spasm of the
bronchial tubes. The most important
step towards the cure of the com-
plaint is to find the nature of the sub-
stance provoking the irritation in this
particular patient. It is not the same
thing for every patient. In some it is
a vegetable pollen. “In others the ir-
ritant emanates from some animal,
perhaps a pet dog or cat who goes all
unsuspected. Everyone knows about
"horse asthma,” but few realize that
the irritation may just as often come
from a cow, a dog, or a chicken.

The doctors who treat asthma with
greatest success are those who make
a special point of discovering the irri-

   

tant responsible for the attacks of the
particular patient under treatment. It
is a. tedious job and involves testing
with many forms of dust, pollen, and
other wind-blown substances. But
when carried through successfully it
gives the doctor a clue to the cause.
Once he has this he can prepare a
vaccine which will make the patient
immune to that irritant; or, if not suc-
cessful in that, can at least advise
him how to guard against exposure.

This is the modern method of deal-
ing with asthma. It is very complex
and not always successful, but it is
far superior to the old way which
made no attempt to do more than pal-
liate the attacks.

GOAT’S MILK FOR BABIES.

Please tell me something about
goat’s milk. Is it better than cow’s
milk for babies?——N. T.

Personally I have had no experience
with the feeding of goat’s milk to in-
fants. I have read about it quite a
good deal lately and know that some
doctors who make a specialty of feed-
ing babies think very highly of goat’s
milk for difficult cases, children who
do not appear to thrive on ordinary
feeding. The very best milk for babies
is that coming from the mother’s
breast; failing in that we usually re-
sort to the milk of the cow, and when
you consider how many thousands of
babies are satisfactorily raised on this
substitute, it is very evident that it is
a good substitute. But it may be that
goat’s milk is really more nearly equal
to the human .article, as is claimed.

 

 

 

Doings in
Hangmg t/ze

HERE was someone who lived

in Woodland right near to Sandy

Squirrel’s house that I have nev-
er told you about. Her animal friends
often called her “Little Old‘ Lady,” be-
cause she is so very small. Her real
name was Mandy Munk. She was a
chipmunk.

She had lived alone in her little
house in Woodland a very long time,
and was always much smaller than
her chipmunk neighbors. Because she
was so small, she had been unable to
do many of the things she wanted to
do. All this sadness was because of
one little boy.

It happened this way. When Mandy

    

 

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on the Door Knob.

Munk was very young, a little boy saw
her frisking among the green grasses
and he set a trap to catch her. The
negt time Mandy Munk happened
along that way she stepped right into
that trap. For one whole‘ day and
night her foot _was held fast. Only

VMandy Munk knew the.pain of those

longhours. When the little boy found

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Woodland

M ay Bar/let

her, he tried to doctor the injured leg. :
but it never was well after that.
Then one day Mandy Munk escaped
from the naughty boy and hobbled:
back to “'oodland. But she did not 3
grow any more, and was always lame.
So she was called “Little Old Lady,"
by the animal people in \Voodland.
Now it was May and the first spring
flowers had begun to blossom. Sandy
Squirrel was returning from an errand
t0 the store for his mother when he

found a very delightful bunch of blos- ,
soms growing by an old Oak tree. 4

The gay little blossoms seemed to

speak to Sandy. He scratched hisl
head and shook his fluffy tail.

“Ah, Hal l have an idea,” said
Sandy.

Now what that idea was, he never!
told anyone. But he picked the flow-1
ers and took them home. All thall
afternoon he was busy down by the;’
brook.

He took long grasses and wove them
into a little basket, then he filled the
basket with the first May flowers of
the season.

Late that afternoon Sandy took the
May basket and hung it on “Lit-
tle Old Lady’s" door. Quietly he rang
the bell and slipped away behind a
nearby bush.

Mandy Munk was very happy to
find the flowers when she opened the
door. /'

She laid a sugar cookie on the win‘
dow sill and went. and put the flowers
in water. When she came back the
cookie was gone. If she could have
seen through the green leaves she
would have seen Sandy Squirrel
munching it behind, the juniper .bush.

 

   

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Prices Reduced
(Effective May th)

produced from flocks culled and handed by experts appointed l) 11'
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Varieties. Prices on 51! 100 .900 “ l
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S the "one piece” is the predomi-
nating style of dress in your
wardrobe, so let the one piece
'meal save you time and labor at house-
cleaning time and other busy days. It
will prove a. welcome change to the
family.

Meat pie is one of the healthiest,
easiest prepared, and most economical
one-piece meals. Of course, you will
need some dessert, but, a meat pie
should combine the meat and vegeta-
bles in one main dish and save wash-
ing of many extra dishes.

Any kind of meat may be used.
Either a. cheap cut or some left-overs,
beef, mutton, poultry, veal or fish.
Oysters, potatoes, carrots, mushrooms.
onions, tomatoes and other odds and
ends may be added to give flavor.
Cut the meat into small pieces and
remove the excess fat. Season the
meat according to its kind and your
taste.

If you use white meat 3 little grated
lemon or orange peel is an improve-
ment. Use very little onion or garlic,
as baking scatters the flavor. Have
the meats, vegetables, etc., cold when

 

 

 

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you put the crust on or it will be
soggy, and have a quick heat at the
beginning so the crust will be flaky.
If the meat is hot the steam will form
under the crust and spoil it.

For the crust use two cupfuls of
flour, one-third cup of shortening, two
teaspoons of baking powder, yolk of
one egg, half teaspoon of salt, and
milk enough to form a stiff paste.
Line a. greased baking dish with this
crust, saving enough to cover the dish,
and fill the dish with chopped or
diced pieces of any kind of fowl de—
sired, and finely diced onion, mush—
room or other seasonin, pour in
enough soup or water to cover, and
place the balance of the paste over
the top. Bake in a. steady oven until
the crust is cooked.

Roll pieces of sausage in strips of
crust. Wet the sides of the crust so
they will stick together. Place the
rolls in a. greased baking dish, brush
with beaten egg and bake for twenty

minutes. Serve with a. good 'chopped
pickle and see if they are not de-
licious.

Scraps of chicken combined with
diced ham is also good. " Potatoes may
be used to fill out if there is not
enough of the chicken and ham, as
ham has a strong flavor. .
Veal and ham is also good and a

 

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, Plan a OncP1ecc Meal
It W711 Save Time and Add the Spice of Van'cty to t/ze Menu

few oysters is an excellent seasoning
for it. Serve with a‘boiled egg garnish
and a. jellied salad and you have a
meal which is fit/for a. king.

Equal parts of diced carrots, pota-
toes and any left-over meat, seasoned
with finely chopped onion and a. dash
of celery, if you like it, cover with the
crust and save the steak for the next
meal, as you will have enough meat
in this dish.

And so it goes. Every housewife
will find some combinations which are
especially pleasing to her family.
Some even like liver pie with onion
seasoning. ‘

Sweetbreads, brains, kidneys and
other pieces should be combined with
meat of less flavor. Two highly flav-
ored kinds in the same pie make too
rich a dish. .

Pigeon, quail and small ducks are
also fine for pie, either alone or in

, combination with other meat. In truth,

it is decidedly hard to find anything
better than a pigeon pie. And bunny
rabbit will please you all, even if you
do not like it cooked in the common
fashion—Mrs. J. L. F. .

PICKING THE BLOOMS FROM
PLANTS.

 

HE summer blooming annuals are

being used much for cut flowers
these days, and to keep them in bloom
for a. long period and to get the finest
blooms, it has been found advisable
to keep the flowers out very close all
the time. If blooms are left to fade
on the plants, or seed to form, it will
cause most of these annuals to stop
blooming, or at least become less free.
It is a. case of the more flowers you
use the more you have to use. While
many will continue to bloom and bear
seeds, if the seeds are not left to form
the strength that they require goes
into making finér blooms of What
comes after. The sweet peas and vio-
lets, and even the pansies will not
bloom for very long if all the seed
pods are not kept from them. Most of

the annuals can be made to bloom-

until frost by picking the blooms be-
fore they fade on the plants, and if
they grow straggly, cutting back some
of the flowering stems at the same
time—A. H.
CHASE DINGY.LOOKING COLORS
OUT OF YOUR KITCHEN.

 

 

HY not brighten up your kitchen

after the dinginess of winter? It
can be made attractive for summer by
using paint and varnish, making fresh
curtains, and possibly getting a. new
covering for the floor, according to
the home economics specialists of the
University of Wisconsin.

That dingy-looking colors are to be
avoided in the kitchen is their opinion.
Clean and clear, yet subdued colors,
make a much more cheerful-looking
and comfortable workshop.“

Ivory and cool shades of gray, tan,
and blue—gray can be used for the
walls, with a. lighter shade for the ceil-
ing. Additional color can be used in
the curtains, the linoleum, or in a bor-
der stenciled around the wall next to
the ceiling. Cool tones of gray with
pink- or blue check curtains and white
enameled woodwork,
and blue painted furniture do a. great
deal to freshen up a. dull kitchen.

[Have Washable Walls.

Calcimine is a cheap, sanitary 'finish
for the walls, and gives a fresh, clean-
looking surface. This finish can be

or ivory walls '

put on by the average housewife.
Paint --is a. much more durable finish
and it can easily be washed, but it is
a little more expensive and harder to
put on. Paper is not practical for the
kitchen.

Refinish your old tables and chairs
with a. little paint and enamel. These,
finished in gray, blue, ivory or green,
with a simple design of two or three
bright colors stenciled on them, help
to make an unattractive kitchen cheer—
ful. Old coffee and baking powder
cans painted and enameled in bright.
colors can be used for cereals and
spices, and at the same time add
bright spots to a white kitchen. A
plant or a small window box also help
to add freshness.

Crisp White curtains add freshness

'and attractiveness to the kitchen. Jap-

anese toweling, colored cambric or
voile, and gingham make effective cur-
tains that are washable, and help to
carry the color scheme around the
room.

_____'______
MEDITATIONS FROM THE
KITCHEN.

 

SUZAN JANE says it’s funny how
some women spend a. dollar or‘two
for prizes for some card party, but can
hardly be induced to part with fifteen
cents for the missionary society.

 

Ma Jenkins has quite a reputation
for making fine noodles. But the other
day when some folks were coming for
dinner, work piled up so that she sim-
ply couldn’t get
around to making
them. So she sent
the hired man to
town for some
from the store
and served them
in the chicken
gravy and every-
body said that
,there never was
anybody like Ma
When it came to
m a k i n g ‘g 0 0 d
noodles.

 

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Hi Peters says he’s not so strong
for all these new houses that have one
big living-room instead of a. parlor and
a. “settin’ room.” It seems to him
that there has to be one room for com-
pany and one for comfort.

 

When Fern and Eb Brown were mar-
ried they were both eighteen and eve-
rybody said there wasn’t enough dif-
ference in their ages. They’ve been
married ten years now, and Eb says
there’s nothing but differences now.

 

My husband says that Irdon’t need to
have my sink made higher,

He also thinks it’s woman’s place, to
make and start the fire,

A vacuum cleaner’s foolishness, and
washing is no grind,

But I don’t care—he hasn’t cross word
puzzles on his mind.

 

Al Smith and his wife keep a budget
and nothing can make them budge it
one inch. Sallie needed some new
dishes but there was no money in the
household equipment fund. There was
money in the amusement fund, how‘
ever, so they went to town and saw a.
show, only Sallie says she couldn’t
really enjoy it because she could have
bought the dishes she wanted with the
money they spent.

 

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golden. rule carries gold to the bank.

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HAT is your plan for feeding
your child? Do you think only
about keeping indigestible foods
away from him? If so, you are behind
the times Or do you think first about
serving him the foods his body needs?
If. so, you are modern and up-to«date.

Below are some bills of fare for
children, suggested by the United
States Department of Agriculture,

[which is uniting with the American
'Child Health Association and other

organizations in a. Child Health Week
program. These bills of fare contain
all the things needed for their devel-
opment.

First, there is at least a pint of
milk in each day’s ration. Many chil-
dren want more and can take it with-
out leaving out other essential foods.
Under these circumstances they ought
to have more.

Second, there is an egg in the first
bill of fare and a, little meat or fish in
the others. This is for iron.

Third, there is fruit in two meals
out of three. This is a good rule to
keep in mind all the time. Fresh fruit
is best—juice or pulp for very young
children. If fresh fruit can not be
obtained, dried fruit may be used at
one meal and either a little tomato
juice or a raw green vegetable, such
as lettuce, in the other. These foods
are the watch dogs of the diet. They
help to keep off disease.

Fourth, every meal in these rations
provides for “roughage.” In some
meals it is supplied by potatoes. In
others it is supplied by whole-grain
cereal breakfast foods or whole-wheat
bread. This means that the food will
have enough bulk to prevent consti-
pation.

Fifth, at one meal there is a vege-
table other than potatoes.

Sixth, every meal contains a little
butter or cream. Something very
much needed by children is in butter-
fat and it is well to give them a little
of it besides that which they get in
the milk.

Make a list of the foods your child
eats and see if all six of these different
kinds of foods are included each day:
Milk, eggs, vegetables, fruit, whole-
grain cereals, and butter or cream.
Suggested Bill of Fare for a Child of

Two.

Breakfast: Juice of half an orange;
whole-grain cereal mush, milk, two-
thirds of a cup, or more if wanted;
toast; butter.

Dinner: Coddled eggs;
to; spinach, bread; butter;
cooked prunes, cookie.

Supper: Milk, one and one-third
cups, or more if wanted; whole-wheat
bread butter.

Suggested Bill (pi-f Fare for Child of
we.

Breakfast: Baked apple; Whole—
grain cereal mush; milk, half pint, or
more if wanted; bread; butter.

Dinner: Boiled potato; creamed
codfish; string beans; bread; butter;
cup custard; cookie.

Supper: Milk, half pint, or more if
wanted; whole wheat bread; date
marmalade.

Suggested Bill of Fare for a Child

From Eight to Ten.

Breakfast: Berries; whole-grain cer-
eal mush; milk, two-thirds pint, or
more if wanted; bread, butter, sugar,
one level tablespoon.

Dinner: Beef stew with potatoes
and carrots or tomato; bread; butter;
tapioca cream; ginger snaps.

Supper. Cream of lettuce
graham bread toasted, butter;
or syrup; milk it wanted.

baked pota-
pulp of

soup;
honey

 

 

PRIZE WINNING SPRING RECIPES.

 

ROM the heaps of appetizing reci-
pes sent in this week, five were
chosen, the others will appear next
week. I hope you find them adaptable
to your cooking schedule and your
families’ taste—M. C.
Cream Rhubarb Pie.

1 cup finely chopped 3 yolks of eggs, (beat-
rhubarb on lightly)

1 cup sugar 1 lemon (use grated

1 tb. cornstarch rind)

Mix corn starch with one table-
spoon of cold water smoothly, then

pour in boiling water enough to fill
cup. Stir this into the rhubarb. Add

.the yolks of eggs. beaten lightly; pour

_ puff Crust.

into .rather'deep pie tin lined with
Bake without top crust in
a quick oven. ~ When done cover with
meringue made of the whipped whites
and three tablespoons of sugar, brown
slightly in oven; serve cold—Mrs. J.
D. N. '
Pineapple Vegetable Salad.

1 cup chopped cabbage pineapple

1 cup of celery French dressing

1 cup drained grated

Mix cabbage, celery, and pineapple
thoroughly. with French dressing. Let
it stand for one hour before serving,
then serve on crisp lettuce leaf.—

Mrs. A. P.
Steamed Berry Pudding.
2 cups flour 2 tb. butter
2 rounding teaspoons 1 cup milk

1 cup berries (black—
1 level tsp. salt berries or huckleberrios)

Sift the flour, baking powder and
salt. Work in the butter, and add the
milk and berries, the berries having
been drained from the juice. Turn into
a buttered mold and steam for one
‘and one—half hours. Sauce: Boil one
cup of sugar and one-half cup of wa-
ter until it falls from the side of the
spoon in drops. Pour onto the stiffly
beaten white of an egg and beat until
cold. Fold in one cup of whipped
cream—Mrs. E. W.

baking powder

DUDS WITH GREASE PREFERRED
BY MOTH.

 

OTHS like to lay their eggs best

 

in soiled woolens and furs, and
it is therefore generally p1ofitable to?
have these materials cleaned carefully}
before storing them away. l

“F1om May to July and during Sep-;
tember and October, the clothes mothi
may be seen flitting about hunting an}
opportunity to light on woolen garl-
ments and furs. Here it lays eggs
which eventually hatch into little
worms or larvae. These larvae feed
on the wool or fur.

“The moth doesn’t like sunlight. For
that reason it is best to hang clothes
that may be infested, out of doors in
the bright sunlight. Brush them with
a stiff brush to remove any eggs or
larvae which may be in the material.

“Another habit of the moth larvae
is that of eating soiled spots in cloth-
ing. They relish dried animal matter,
such as dried insects, including their
own dead, meat, casein, and the like.
The woolen material or fur which is
cleaned before it is put away for the
summer has a better chance to get

 

 

safely through the moth season.”

 

 

Household Service

CAUSE OF DARK VINEGAR.

 

 

 

I keep our barrel of cider vinegar in
the basement. It is nice and clear
when I take it from the barrel, but in
a week it will turn dark, almost black
in color. It is two years old. What
could I do to keep it clear?—Mrs. H. T.

There are several reasons why vin-
egar turns black after exposure to the
air. The three principal reasons are:
First, presence of an enzme, oxidase;
second, excess of tannin, and third.
contact with metals, principally iron.
To get rid of the first cause, viz. black-
ening due to the oxidase, add potas-
sium metabisulphite at the rate of
0.2 to 0.5 ounces per 100 gallons.
If you have, say fifty gallons, just add
one-half of the amount for 100 gallons,
thus you can work out any fraction
of 100 gallons.

To get rid of the second cause, viz.,
the tannin, add gelatin at the rate of
one to one and one-half ounces to 100
gallons of vinegar. First, soak the
gelatin in water to get a solution, and
then add it to the vinegar.

The remedy for the third causervizq
contact with metals, obviously is to
not place the vinegar in any metal
container. If, however, you have al-
ready done so, you can clear the vin-
egar from the dark color by aerating
the vinegar, then use gelatin in the
same proportions as given above and
this will clear the vinegar very nicely.

     
    

 

 

Big Ben & Company

GROUP of nine alarm
clocks and two watches
doing business under the
trade mark Westclox. Big
Ben is easily the best known,
though Baby Ben runs him
a close second.
Sleep-Meter has a host of
friends among people who
like Westclox quality at a

1,

WESTERN CLOCK COMPANY. LA SALLE. ILLINOIS, U. S. A.
Factory: Peru, Illinois. In Canada: Western Clock 0)., Limited, Pctcrborough, Ont.

medium price.

America, who really found-
ed the line, otters VVcstclox
service at a price that makes
people wonder how It can be
done. Pocket Ben 13 a watch
that takes a dollar—fifty out
of your pocket and puts in—
to it a timekeeping service
worth many times that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Big Ben Baby Ben America Sleep-Meter Jack o’Lantcrn Pocket Ben Clo-Ben
$3.25 $3.25 $1.50 $2.00 53.00 81.50 $2.25
FOR I925. Breeders nl hwhut egg produtimz strains in all leading varieties. You will be

greatly pleasid with nsults obtaimd flom our heavy layers.
10090 Liv1 Dcli‘. 1-1y G1121-.1anl(td Postpaid wires "5 50 100 500 1000

   

English and. American White Leghoms .................... $2.75 $5.50 $10 $45 88

Single and Rose (fomb Brown Leghorns 2.75 5.50 10 45 88

Single (10ml) Buff Leghorns ................ 5.50 10 45 88

S. C. Mottled Ant-(mas. Barred Rocks... ". 7.00 13 62 120

S. (‘. and It. (‘. it. I. Rods ............... .. 7.00 13 62 120

\Vhito and Bufl' Rocks .................................. 375 7.00 l'l 62 120

_ \Vhito Wyandottes, Black Minorras ...................... 375 7.00 l (1.5 120

‘ 'Buff and “'him Orpingtons ............................. 4.50 8.50 17 2 160
Silver Wyandottes, Light Brahmas, Langshuns ............................. 4.50 8.50 17 82 160

15 other rare varietiesl Mixed, all Heavies. $11 per 100. All Light. 5!) per 100. Light and Heavy Mixed.
“(l-per 100._ DUCIxLINGVS. l’ekins, :55, $7.50; 50, $15; 100. $30. V‘I'liilc and Fawn Runners, 25. $0.50; 50.
$13, 100, $23. Remember. ()uahly goes ahead of price. Consider this when you place your order. and please

note we guarantee 100% Live Delivery and (‘hirks that will please you. No (‘hicks shipped C. O. D. At
least 10% of purchase price must (‘Omo with order. Bank Reference. You cannot go wrong in ordering
direct trom this ad. Chmks from EXTRA SELECT BLOCKS. $3 per 100 higher than above prices. and
“1101.5 from our Blue Ribbon Pens. $5 per 100 higher. Write at once today.

FLIIIT, MIOII.

BABIOII’S FRUIT 81 POULTRY FARM, Box 50,

HEALTHY, HUSKY, BABY CHICKS.

Production backed by years of experience in practi-
cal poultry farming. 100% live delivery guaranteed.
Postage Paid. per 25 per 50 per 100 per 500

 

 

Large Type W. Leghorns 84.25 $8.50 $16.00 $75.00
Pure Barred Rocks 4.25 8.00 15.00 70.00
White Wyandottes 4.50 8.50 16.00 75.00
Rhode Island Reds 4. 25 8. 00 15. 00 70.00

Order your chicks from a practical poultry farm, operating 365 da 8 in the
year and backed by twenty years experience in breedingiand proiific egg
production. Visit our plant at any time. We are at your service.

Reference, First National Bank, Ypsilanti, Mich.

YPSIFIELD EGG FARM HATCHERY, YPSILANTI, MICH.

 

"Blithe B A B Y C H I C K S BLBRO°DMTEE¥§o°§f€cK

BRED IN MICHIGAN -- HATCNED IN MICHIGAN

50 100 500 1000
SHIP/fl: B. l‘. Rocks 8.: R. I. Reds ........................................ $7.50 $14 $70 $140
Extra Select B. 1’. Books & It. I. lit-(ls ................................... 8.50 15; 80 160
W. 1’. Rocks & W. Wyandottes ............................................ 8.50 11; ,_
"Utility" ling. B. S. C. W. Ll-glloms .................................... ($.50 12 00 120
"Tailored” S. C. W. Loghorns ............................................. 7.50 14 70 140

Mixed (‘hicks (all Heavies) $12 Mixed ('hlr-lrs (all Varieties). 311 straight l’uuetg 110m mum Weeks
to Maturitv‘. All our Breeding Slmk has been Testtd 101 limillary “hit: Diarrhea. Member I. B. L‘. A.
100% Live Dolimrv Order dire<t from this ad. 0111 reputation is your guarantct

MILAN HATCHERY. 80x 4, Milan, Mich.

Chicks and Eggs at Reduced Prices

One of the founders of the chick industry 22 years in business. An old reliable Hatchery which has
been putting out guaranteed chicks for years. Our hooks are the result of card'ul breeding and culling over
along period. When seen our chicks recommend themselves. Dr. L. E. Hensley Egg Basket strain Buff
Leghorns. White Leghorns. Headed by males 275303 egg record breeding. Barred Rocks headed by E. B.
Thompson’s males. It. I. Reds headed by Whittaker’s males. Buff and White Leghorns: pullets after Juan
lst. Write for catalogue.

Meadow Brook Hatchery, Henry De Pree Sons, R. 1, Holland, Mich.

 

 

 
   
        
 
   
   
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
   
   
 
  
 
 
  
  
 

  


    
  
    
    

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- E 1111 , not keep more than a hundred hens, ST-RAIN .
EGG BRED giggli'iio'rgiizw’?" B :‘Le 1'11”" wo. ”“2330; mi often sells his product to a line of 200-2001lcfldlnno
/ hon“ “com r. efihorasm Akn’oonoo. niggeggfiggggfimfis‘ggf‘ retail customers. Such fortunate per- ' 11112on W? 200)!

  

sons do not have to consider the grad: 309- mm to males troll!
ing. Those of us who keep flocks of 1100. Foundation stack 111»
500 or more shoulrbe very careful ‘% also Europa: H.334.
about the grading. A man took two mange“ mm] We '

from Sheppud' ' '

cases of e s to a. coo erativ marke - Fm “id Brown Leehomn. ran mun r .1
88 p e t prices enabling every kbuyer or ciryloxs to‘own

fir $913 Per 100. $15 per 100 $17 per 100
' $60 per 500 $70 per 500 $80 per 500
IQYEARS $115 per 1000 $135 per 1000 $155 per 1000

10% Discount from above prices if cash is sent with order for May 11,18
or 25 delivery, by mail or express. Order direct from this ad.

 
 
 
 
 
    
      
 
    
     
 

  
   

      
  
     
 

  
   
     
     
      
   

Poultry profits come from flocks' 1n which practically every hen lays stead- i118 association in 0118 Of the eastern 11° 1118118“ mdestoc
ilyl. Such flocks can be raised only with chicks which have known high rec- cities. “I would like to see you grade Pure Howfinwmogo "”3 LIST
0rd ancestory. This can be expected when you buy chicks from these eggs and if you can convince me Leghom (Limiwd 100' 50° 100° .
Wyngarden’ s, with 19 years of breeding for high flock averages. Read thatI can do better marketing through Holly mots 121' 2&1. ..... $11.00 $20. 00 $95.00 . 1
our catalog for full information. . - . t' I .11 b t k tility ..... 1.332338 .00 igloo 00 52.50 ‘3:
English Type White 1138110?“ 13313503: hilil’dlgv' uytsomg '8 £101 Amie?) ...(.§'.l?f'f'.rfl 000 is 00 . 7500 155
W11 arden Pullets, 9 weeks old, $1.15 each. y d d bmbthou f“ d (1 ie finoonor £01111?) 8200 14100 05:00 120
HATC ERY& FARMS $1. in ots of 5001‘ more- F.O.B. eggs were gra e y e S an ar 11 733.11. 2.1") .°.r.n." 7.50 14.00 07.50 125
ZEELANDo MlCH-. Box M Zeeland. ReadyMayIStoMayzo. use and placed on the market. Pre- Bmdenfisnornr 700 13 00 02. 50 115

viously the man had found out‘just 109% my, dame”.
what he could get for the eggs in the 1°“ J ._
best market he knew of. It transpired THE RURAL POULTRY FARM
that he got almost tWO dollars per ZEELAND. ”,0“, H. R. g. BOXI09
case more for the eggs after grading " '
than he would have received other-
wise.

'Larze. illustrated cata— -

 

   

HOLLAND HATCHERY

Heavy Winter Laying Stock Produced by
Michigan’s Old Reliable Hatchery

Pieer Breeeere ePi Heieiiielmioiioilso‘ao 053531.35 “r The be“ Wk that “‘9 mm” HIGH QUAU ll BHIGKS '
Pure bred TOM BARRON and MERI A . . neonaie - ' ' ' ' ' '
Barred Rocks Rhode Island Reds. Strong, well hatched Chicks from Ho an— assomatlons are domg 15 In teaChlng

ized free range stock By insured Parcel Post Prepaid to your door 100% ive the farmers the value of grading the Delivered by Parcel Post Prepaid

t ' . . -
giggzgiogiégrglggzgndsl7 years experience in the business and giving absolu e In oduct, also, 1n the fact that they are 100% Live Deliverey Guaranteed

 

 

 

. . . building up a demand for particular 25 50 we "'
brandr‘ of e S in cartonS. There is WhltB. Brown and Bu]! LQIIOHIS $3.50 $6.50 '2 '
Spec1al Mid-Season Bargain Offer e reg o... w... o 1...... ’
_ . _ no reason why the poultryman, who 5mm and Rose Comb Red; ~ 1‘
Baby Chicks in assorted lots at $75. in 1000 lots. or $8.00 per 100. Quallty of stock and live dellvery has a large flock should not try to do Anconss ............... $4. 00 $8. 00 315 f
guaranteed. Write or order at once to get the benefit of this low price. . ' ’ . White Wyandottes, Bufl' 01- l
build up a demand for hls product. It pinstons a. Block Minorcas. :4. 50 $0.50 315

Valuable Illustrated Catalog Free

 

 

 

   
 

 

Holland Hatchery & Poultry Farm, 11-7-0, Holland, Michigan 51:03:80.3?“ ”1y “ ““8““ grading is Page cm? “agitated"; 1:113:
' I have seen western eggs selling at MANKEL I DEAL HATOHERY
ON E MI LLION“GOOD LUCK”%%I}EI‘I; gigglflbgddfliethgal‘gdifgr12y p:::tt‘i3::3: 'Box B, Upper Sandusky, O. i

 

 

  
 
    

 

LEADING BREEDS . . LOWEST PRICES! Eggs running twenty-four ounces. or

REDUCED ROCK BOTTOM PRICES MAY 4th TO SEPT. m. THOUSANDS 01- more, to the dozen should be placed
PLEASED CUSTOMERS TESEIOY TO THEIR WONDERFUL auctngdnggtE). in the first assortment; between twen-
BEAUTY AND EGG PRODUC l N. Send for our B G BEAUTIF _ _ N
INSTRUCTIVE ART BOOK, FR_E1E, showing our ownllolrdshmlImoirdNATunAmeolt- tY one and twenty three Ounces passe.»
0 Pearl the many tostimonizls full 0 praises Wll(l lglv in also 0111 ‘1i<r {9 . 1. . _
Before 3‘0“ buy elsewhere see these illustrations of the actual birds that produce the to 8' vely gOOd grade, and under tWOIl
eggs we GUARANTEE OUR BIRDS REE FROM NEW EUROPEAN AND ty-one ounces to the dozen pass 101.
OTHER DISEASES. 100% Live Delivery Postpaid Bank Rcf. Mom. I. B. C. A.

  

ROYAL PEN
STILL LEADS
L EGHO RN S
On Jan. 30 the Roy-

     

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L VG VAmfiidl 81110; A. or 50 100 300 500 1000 pullet eggs. After the pullets have al White Leghorn
A I. LEADI ‘ 1 ’liics now 1.1 . - ‘ . .
its Brown & 111111 Leglmrns ADI-(mas ...................... $2.50 51.75 s 9.00 $25.50 $42 $ 80 been laying for some time, there W1“ ATCHERYaFARM 5’?" it Elle ”ll-“ma
BMTL‘d 8! White ROCKS, IL I. "((18 ............................. 3.25 6.00 11.50 33.00 52 100 usually be but two grades and any Iona gg aylng
Bl. fr.llllnorca Wll. Wyandottc, \Vh..& lluil’ Ol'plngton .......... 3.75 7.00 13. 50 30.00 62 120 ‘ ‘ ZEELAND,MICH. Contest took the
Burr & Wll. 1111mm, s11. \vygndottc.l s. SllSSQiX...(-;(i..idd..s.8... 151.00 1119509.; 1%.. 01:19. 5048.00 80 eggs too small fox the second grade lead in the Leghorn class and on April
11 ( l. W 1 . 0r ' . L'Plt M' . , . v 1111‘ _
hti'zlill'ilingcn‘liATcyli'édR'itos, L m" 'L' 'x Box 62. my NAPOLEON. 0Hlo. are used at home 01‘ SOld t0 the local 1 still led all the 69 Leghorn pens and

trade. wags gaining
i . . . Sue birds speak for themselves. High breeding
The weighlng and candllng Of eggs counts. 75% of the orders we receive are from old

. . . customers who buy their chicks from us year ann- -
is not a difficult operation. It should year. Place your order Wm, us and become a satis— .

be done dai] an St I] I‘ fled customer. Our prices are reasonable. 100%
y d a da ds set Should Live arrival guaranteed. Write now for catalog and

Chicks that are lively and healthy from pure-b13111 calrtelulljydse- . be adhered to l‘lgldIY- When the com- prlces. OY T

looted stock. One- fifth down books order. G00 0011 FY 11 KG ' ,. ' ' _ R AL HA CHERY 8; FARMS

say our flocks are unusually good. Order today. Last year we ' . . -. L . ¥nlssllon man learns that you aresend S. P. Wiersma.Prop. Zeeland, Mich. R,F.D. 1
mg in a dependable product, he is apt

were lnotd able fto supplyt tthe domaind. dOrder early this year.
P II I I 0° ' er . . . . .
"'6 W cm" y 'e e” 0 /° "'6 “v y to give you a little spe01a1 attention TH" AR
cltY- and a noticeable increase in the re- B‘ INSPECTION

 

 

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Price: on (prepaid) 25 50 mo 500 1000 Re!" Farmer‘s “ Mechanic's Bank. (Ml

  
 

 

Bd. Rock: 72.00 $l40

crib-1113,26 .. . 450 gggg :23 WASHTENAW HATCHERY, turns will be apparent. If you do not ’~ ;
wn. Wyandottec 4'50 050 16'00 77:00 150 Geddes Road produce enough eggs to ship an entire . l

wn. 8. Br. Leghorn. 3.75 7.00 la. 00 52.00 120 Ann Arbor, Michigan case of first-grade at one time, make

 

 

 

 
  

 

it half and half, and advise the seller. fl 4%“.
nomullllllllw

Even this much of grading will help. WW?“ ~
YEAR: OF EXPERIENCE Pi ii ”m "
buy a dozen so-called “fresh eggs” and _ . \
Our 15 years of work and experience in breeding and hatching Chicks qualifies us as the chances are that you will get stor— Fancy StOCk at nght PI’lCCS '

DEAN in the Poultry Industry College. We own and operate a real Poultry Farm of 20 . . .
acres, not merely a Hatched-y. Our Free Catalog will give you an excellent idea of this age eggs- Thls W111 DOt be true ”1 Barron W. Leghorn. (270-300 lnceflf!) "3.50 I"! III

 

 

F “Get it now. We have specialized in White Leghorns for many years i Sheppard Anconal (300-009 strain) 13.50 per lo.
100;; Live Delivery Guar. Postpaid prices 01134250 31 5(5)0 81:080 $6325?) 3111:1100 :‘iery case’ I??? (it does Often 003:“; agile ngandjotte; ("Evergreen strain) .. ”3.33 per :3:
S. C White Leghorns, Extra Quality .......... 0 0.00 so 0 WI D in man cases a I all on I. re an ................ . per
Barred Rocks Reds, Amends .................. 4. 25 8.00 16.00 72.00 140.00 ’ y u y Shipped by parcel port. Safe arrival guaranteed.

White 8.: Bull Rocks. White Wyandottes ...... 500 9.00 17. 00 80 00 155.00 the only “fresh” eggs available bear REHAB”; POULTRY FARM AND HATCHERV

Ref. Ro al Oak Savings Bank. Order direct from this ad.1n full confidence . ‘ . ’ . .
DEAN FARyM AND HATCHERY. Box 21, Blrminuham. Michigan. the Callfomla. label. When a dealer z“"“‘" ”M" R I. B“ ‘7
buys a case of western eggs he knows w. LEGHORIkl-uBc:I6ACK MlNoncA-
what he is buying. There will be no "A
seconds in the case. If we are to
Pure-bred. high quality. heavy laying. WM flocks. Great Whit“ Layers. meet this competition successfully, we

-. . P 1 id rles on 25 50 100 500 1100
$1003,” whiienil'hfigwna'l'gihoms ?.S.I?'.'....p..c. ........ 3375 $7.25 :11 5171;. 58 3138 must grade .‘lllSt as carefully as the
Barred Rocks R. I. Ruls ....................... 4.50 8.50 10 western producer or association. H
A» .. (Extr Good Sheppard) ................ 4.00 7.75 15 72.50 140 . . _ _ _ ri
M'i'xdml‘hioks f" ................ '1'0A'l ........ Each" 2&75 5.33! p30 1513900 mini is a mighty good time to CODSldel‘ this Over 20 yearssagltgzcgge assures you!
0 0 air so rson . , .
Rigerf'cfimtgihfigolg 11552 gloskperll‘ree 353$”. r 9 subject when eggs are at their lowest E.‘tabli;$ed 8...: by PARCEL PosT PREPAID. 1'
n

. Ivory Guaranteed.

. N . MIOH AN. - , [100% Live Del

WINSTROM POULTRY FARM. BOX cs. ZEELA D I8 price for the year, as is the case at PINE BAY P'OULTRY FARM, ”mam. Mlohioan- ‘
present—Charles H. Chesley.

CHICKS“ THAT LIVE

. en .11., “
it) $111.3; lligely 'tyoungiltets'It'lliltnllloul11:10c cred ' it
'-u,an eonane-enu
BOUT June 1 I bought fifty BUff laying basi: From carefu ly 'mat'elii hie'll-
egg-producing strains. tested culledgto ,

insure exceptional vigor and laying ability. . fi

Ol‘pington chicks to see if I could
. - ' stock and our Icientiflc hat I:
earn 3‘ httle money“ I was talking ducelchleklthatlive.growfaet.lnyearly 8210:?" for 1‘
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Official lnternstlonal Eco Content
Records up to 254 Elm.
Few can equal our PRICES.

No one can beat our QUALITY.
Before ordering your 1925 chicks send
for our CATALOG. Our LOW PRICES
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NOW EASY TO PREVENT
WHITE DIARRHEA

This dread bowel trouble gets in its deadly 10:102. and quart kitties:
- on
work from the first day of the chicks l1fe. an 89 0“ tlugseT it “t
You must start at the same time—from the gafkrgflemn ee. ry
very first day— —to kill the germs HAVEN’T HIST ONE SINCE
It’ a easy now to keep your chicks from it. “After losing 150 chicks from
Simply put a little 8- K 1n thi chicka' drinkinfl White Diarrhea."writes Bloom-
Wflter for the first ten days. Disinfect . ingdale Falms" ‘we got some
the incubator before the hatch to B_-K and haven’ i: lost a chick

 
  

 

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. uniform size and color so they will grow into heeuilful
Wlth 0111‘ county agent about them and flocks of which tainu'llhepliolld. Plaeeyeurerder before
he thought It would be a good thing ouroutputlis enbyotherl dernewforpreaentor

' future delivery. Leedlnu verlellee. Live delivery
for me to enter the club work, as I guaranteed. root Bpaid. mm for new chick booklet.

        
 

 

prevent the germ getting into 21c since A few cents worth 1{did the tflc- had good chicks and would learn how Lc‘r'ifl 3“ 1°01 Montoomm. MM“
eggs. Spraytllc penswithtls ....... 'Kn'—~iv:iv—vu—-u—I_-—-—I - - . . .
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'glcgms splrczild in_ the drxppjlngt! fi- IMadison, \\'.lseonslln sell those I dldn t want and make a "
at’s a t ere is to it. n 1 1 phase fiend FR EE and POSTPAID your vnlu- White Leghoms, 13c; Barred Rocks 12 1 Beds. 150; fi-
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BK- is the greatest and safest 0' IAND BOWEL TR” BLE IN BABY CHICK I came home and looked over my Heavy mixed for broilers. 13c: Light. 11c. Poems ,
allgerrn killers Eleven years' prov- Name ________________________________ paid 100% live delivery. OurT 15th year. We pro~
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.11..” Tapered Straink’ Jig

" WHITE LEGHORNS

:5 Panic Bi‘iRRED Rocxs '2
Single Comb 6 Rose Comb
RHODE ISLANDVREDS

SUPERIOR CHICKS
., _ IN ALK BREEDS

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Missed One Day In Two Years
Coleman. Mich. Jan. 10, 1923. Lakevlew Poul-
try Farm, Holland. Mich: “I have a flock
of nice llhode Island Reds which came from your
poultry farm and in two years they have missed
but one day in laying. Please send me catalog
for this yearn—Mrs. Mabel Nelson Long." ‘
That's only a sample of what Lnkeview flocks
are doing.

ORDER FROM THESE PRICES.

Utility Matigul.

English S. C. White Leu- 5 50 100 500
horns ............. _. ..... 4.00 $7.50 $14 $65
Barred Rocks ........... 4. 7 5 9. 00 17 80
S. C. and R. 02 Rhode
Island Reds ............ 4.50 8.50 16 75
1\Iix2d Chicks

(Good chicks ,
............ 3.25 0.25 12 60
Star Mating”.

Tancred S. C. White Leg- .
horns ................... $4.75 $ 9.00 $17 $80
Barred Rocks ............ 5.50 10.50 20 95

S. C. and R. C.

Island Reds ............ 5.00 0.50 18 85
LAKEVIEW POULTRY. FARM. Holland. Mich..
R. R. 8. Box 6.

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SPECIAL SAL
PULLETS &CHIC

We have a number of 8 week pallets which
we are forced to sell at Incl-moo prlou
because quarters are too small for growmg
stock. Here is your chance to got someg

stock at Ipoclnlly ndueod price.Write for prices on these
pullets and dayiggkfib‘fifilf'éfi'fi'fi . not quick.
Box A ST ZEELAND, MICE.

CHICK 8c. IND UP.—-PIILI.EI8 60c. AND UP.

Pure—bred. highest quality. best pay—
ing. Low prices on leading varieties.
Every Fairview bird is thoroughly in—
spected by a. poultry expert. Custom-
ers report, pullets laying at three
months . 21 days. Orders filled on
one week's notice. 100% live deliv—
ery guaranteed. Catalog free.
FAIRVIEW HATCHERY AND
POULTRY FARM.
Iceland, Mich.. R. 2. Box 203.

[While lagwhorns

Tamreds- gollyw - Barron

    

    

 

 

 

 

Sired . White Leghorn
chicks. Pure-bred. All free
range. Best winter lawns
strains. Selected 100, $13: 500.
$02.50; 1.000. 3120. Selected

Star-A, 100. $15: 500. $72.50:
1.000, 3140. Postpaid. Fun
live arrival guaranteed. Illus-
trated catalog free.

Highland Poultry Farm. R. 9.
Box C, Holland. Mich.

PAIL-[312! White leghorn Chicks

and 8—weeks Pullets at the following
special reduced prices.
BABY CHICKS. _

April delivery 10c each. May (iolivory
00 each. Odd lots at $7.50 prir 100.
8~weok .l’ullels at. $1.00 each. 100%
alive delivery mlurantwd. l'l'ellilld. ()r-
dcr at oncc. Shady Lawn Poultry
Farm &. Hatchery, Box 5-M, Zeeland,
Mich. .

CLASS A CHICKS: PULLETS.

Big. husky chicks from heavy layers.
8. (‘. English White and Brown Log-
horns. 10c. Anconas, 110. Barred
‘ Rocks and Rods, 13c. Assorted. 80. No
" money down. l’ay ton days before
chicks are shipped. 100% live deliiery.
Postage paid. Catalog ircc. THE 805
HATOHERY. R. 2-M, Zecland, Mich.

SEND IIO MONEYuthERGICIIS

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We Ship 0. 0. D. and guar-
antee prepaid i00% live delivery of sturdy, pure-bred
chicks from healthy. bred-to-lay flocks. Wh. Br. Buff
Leghorns. 10c; Bd. Rocks, Wh. Rocks, S. (3. Reds.
12c: Buff Rocks, Buff 0rps.. Wh. Wyand.. Blk. Min‘
orcas. 14c. Lots of less than 100 chicks. 1c more.
Silver Lake Hatchery. Box M, Silver Lake, Ind.

BABY CHICKS

$12.50 For 100 and Up
We are listing 12 varieties of Pure ”Blood Farm

range stock. Chickens, Ducks and Guineas. Write
(or price list. CLINTON HATCHERY & POULTRY
FARMS, Wilmington. Ohio.

 

ENGLISH PRODUCER WHITE LEGIIOIIII
Larger size 5—lb. hens. The kind for
farmers and egg producers. Strong
husky chicks our specialty, $15 per
100. Eggs $8.00. Free Catalog.
Mapleaide Leghorn Farm, Box 0,
Tremont, III.

 

 

Barred Rock. Eckhard

CHICKS Strain. White Lozhornn

and Brown Leghorns. Guarantee full 100%
alive. Free Delivery. HILLVIEW POUL-

TRY &. HATCHERY. c. BOVEN, Prom.
R. l2-B. HOLLAND MICHIGAN.

WHITTAKER’S TRAPNESTED REDS

Both Combs. Michigan's Grentost Color

. and E
SISUIGmChEM and Eggs from Viuorous. Hardy Stools.g
Write for! nnunl Catalog is yours for the asking.

t.
INTERLAKES FARM. Box 39, Lawronce, Mich.

F Quality Chicks

€86 range. Healthy stock. Twelve variet' .
‘ Erl'lgm cents and up. WriteJor circular tifd
n cos. 00% Live arrival guaranteed.

. Bank reference.
.31'. STEPHEN HATOHERY. St. Steuben. 0.

 

 

lbs I would join a poultry "611155
I have bought allmy own food and
cared for them myself, and I still have
my fifty and have had no trouble. My
feed has cost me $14.77, and I have fed
a. variety of feed, milk mash, cracked
wheat; sour milk and green pasture,
with plenty of fresh water, to date. I
have paid out .$21.27 for chicks and
feed.

At Hillsdale County Fair I exhibited
two pens of four fowls each, and won
eleven ribbons. I have learned many
more things about feed and care of
chickens than I could have learned any
other way. I have enjoyed my work
and I am proud of my flock. I hope
I can raise more another yeah—Fred-
erick H. Mack, Litchfield, Michigan.

COMB DISINFECTION.

TATE director of apiary inspection.

Mr. B. F. Kindig, has announced
that plans are well under way to es-
tablish Hultzelmanizing stations at
various points among disease affected
bee sections where keepers may bring
in and sterilize diseased combs at a.
moderate expense. The stations will
be supervised by deputy apiary in-
spectors. In the meantime, the bee-
keeper should keep close watch of his
colonies and if he is not positive as
to the cause of dead larvae or scale
Which may appear in the brood-comb,
he may send a sample of the dead
brood or scales to either the director
of apiary inspection, at. East Lansing,
or to the department of agriculture for
identification.

If the dead material is still soft it
can be sent most rapidly by making a.
smear on a clean piece of paper with
a clean toothpick. After the smear is
dried, fold the sample for identifica-
tion and mail immediately.

CHICKS MAY BE OVERCROWDED.

Could you tell me what I could do
for my chicks? I do not have any
trouble with those I hatched under
hens, but I sent for some and they
are not doing well. I feed them the
same as the others. I have them with

hens. The hens are shut up but the
chicks run free. They seem to eat
good. They will raise their wings and

soon droop and die. They do not seem
to be lousy.~~Miss F. C.

The incubator chicks may be lack-
ing in vigor, due to chilling or over-
crowding. Sometimes large flocks of
incubator hatched chicks are given to
a few hens to brood and the chicks
are chilled at night. When a hen has
more than ten or twelve chicks there
is always the danger that some may
be crowded out each night and partly
chilled. This gradually reduces their
vigor and makes them subject to dis~
ease. The chicks may be infected with
White diarrhea.

The only remedy for such 2i. condi-
tion is to avoid overcrowding, feed a
balanced ration and keep the chicks
on a grassy range as free as possible.
from contamination by older stock.
Perform a postmortem and note the
condition of the internal organs oi‘ the
chicks that (lie.

 

SPOTS ON EGG SHELLS.

I am sending in today‘s mail a. piece
oi" an egg shell on which are “some-
things” all out of the same egg. They
do not look like the blood clots we
sometimes see.-Mi‘s. S. B.

One spot seems to be a large louse
which was dried on to the sticky egg
shell soon after the chick hatched.
The other spots seem to be small
dried clots of. blooo from the mem-
brane which was around the chick.
The presence of the louse indicates
the need of the blue ointment treat-
ment for the hen, or a dusting with
sodium fluoride. No symptoms of dis-
ease of any kind are shown on the
pieces of shell.

 

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Chick Starter;
Growing Mash',
Fattening Mash
Melting Mash

Chick Scratch

Growing Scratch
Poultry Scratch

   

RE 95 out of a hundred living now? If

not, for the sake of your future poultry
profits, face the facts. Most chick deaths
are preventable. An alarming percentage fi
are caused by the feeding mistakes made by the raiser.

While you may not know what feeding mistakes you made that
prevented you from raising 95 out of a hundred of your first hatch,
you can prevent. the repetition of those costly errors by adopting a
tested and proVed scientific feeding method that is vouched for by
one of the world’s largest makers of poultry feeds.

Follow This Tested Globe Method and
Raise More Chicks

We lliavlc tegtzed out many chick-raising methods diar-

1ngt 1e ast yearsin our experimenta pou try yar s.
The GLOBE
Chick Raising

The method described herein has proved itself to be

by far the best. Its worth has been demonstrated by

hirilndreds of poultry raisegs in all parts of the country

w oregularlyraisc 90% to 5% of the chicks theyhatch. M E T H O D
For best and quickest results;
we recommend that you follow
this feeding program—

We unreservedly recommend this method to you.
F ollowmg it is a short cut _to bigger and surer poultry
profits —— to more chicks raised— to more broflers sold
—to more well—developed pullets. ..

Iurst 24 hours: Place a clean
fount with tepid water before
the chicks. Change water twice
(lolly. r THEM ABSO—

Prevents Feeding Mistakes ,. G ‘
LUIELY NOTHING ELSE.

' '- ' ' ' Second 24 hours: Place a

The Globe Chick Raismg Method, if followed exactly, “we fine Charcoal and Gm on
prevents feeding mistakes. It furnishes the chicks thelltiltttg—z—N?‘ roopi7 d d

' .‘ H ' - ” " it 4 ours: ee ry
With a food_that apprommates Nature 3 chick food Globe Chick 8mm mind with
-—the yolk in the newly hatched chick—so that there tine C(iiarcoai lanai Gni'i one:
is no strain on the Chick’s digestive organism .durmg 31,1“;5‘bggrgg‘3fifggg 'not 3,53,;
the change from yolk to prepared feeds. It insures {llégilthcywilleatin fifteen mm-
chicks receivmg the nutritive elements needed to bu1ld ‘ 4}}. to 10th days: Ij‘eed Globe
fat, feathers. bones. muscles. It_msures that they Will ii’iiicliiif3f3f’cifif 61130;? (Egg:
receive sufficxent Vitamines. It insures that Chicks of sputum q, little Globe Chick
the small poultry raiser Will be as profitably fed as ifI‘lié'liilllélnlfifidaiilcde 3333‘s?
those of the most successful poultry raisers in the
country. It is a method that spells PROFITS for all
who follow it.

If you want to make no more chick-killing mistakes—

If you want to raise 90% to 95,5 of your chicks in—

stead of 50%—

lOthdayto 6thor8th Week:
Leave the Globe Chick Starter!
bci'orc them in the hopper where
If You want to stop using haphazard mixtures——
If you want to give your chicks a FEEDING
CHANCE to make you money—

thcy can have easy access to it
all the time. From now on keep
Start using the Globe Chick-Raising Method with—
out delay.
0
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it box with fine Charcoal and
N O W time to start!

Grit constantly before them. In-
crcusc the Giulio Chick Scratch
quantity as they grow and bury
it in the litter, but; not more in
the morning than they clean up
in thirty minutes. Make them
work lur lL*‘(}XCl'(flSC is essential
to hcalth and rapid growth. Late
ohm-noon, food a longer amount
to l'.ll'l‘y lliL‘lll through the night
with 1. full crop. At noon, fur-
nish some j ulcy grccnfecd . Grind
it; and mix some Globe Chick
Sinner with it to absorb the
juice. 'l‘omnto juice is especially
beneficial. Feed only such quark
titles as are quickly disposed of.

Adopt the Globe Chick-Raising Method today! If

you have young chicks, ask your Globe merchant for

Globe. Chick Starter and Globe Chick Scratch. I 1' your

chicks are feathering, be sure to order (:lobe Growmg

Mash. l‘eathermg Chicks need a spoolal food. Globe

Growmg Mash lS CIISLIIICUVC‘ —r1ch 111 Vitamincs and

the food elements making for sturdy frames, glossy

plumage, and stamina.

I/Ve say “The Globr' mr'zr‘lmirt 7's (1 good man to knoux"——lu'mnsr

he realism 11m! your sm‘a'ss mus! ”III/2;: his amr—lwmusv In: [CHUH'S

that 10514113 (110210 deterniz'izefcal C(isls—[A'i‘uilse In: slum/s ’0’. [2m—

grcssz'ue “Dollar Value" merchandising am! because 0} (1/1 Hus hus-

tied up his persona! business repulatwn 1012'}: Globe Feeds-«made

today with an eye on tomorrow.

G0 to your Globe merchant today. Order the foods you need.
The path that leads to your Globe store is tho path that loads to
bigger Fall and Winter profits tor you.

Fromtlicothtoaththrough
The ALBERT DICKIN SON CO.

the 16th week: Change the
Chicago Minneapolis

 

Globe Growing M ash and Globe
Growing Scratch. continuing
the will“: routine adopted after
the first. ton days. Start the 8th
wvck by fouling, not more than
one ounce of Scratch per bird
pot tiny. incnxriimz the propor—
tion gradually 12:1! il you nrcfccd-
ing two ounces (IL weeks.

At about twelve weeks the
scxcs should be .,cpuratcd and
:zil malts not dosircd for breed-
ing :md any otIu-r culls prepared
tor the market. The market usu-
ZlIlV dcsirvs from 1% to 2 pound
broilers early in the season and
the chicks that lli‘IVU been culled.
if put. on tho Globe Fattcuing
Mash can he incrunscd to the
[)l'opt‘l' size Ill two weeks. MCtll‘
()d5 of feeding this Mash are de—
scribed on page 45 in “Poultry
Profits."

16th week and after: \thn
the age of sixteen weeks has
been reached we recommmnl
changing the feed to Globe 152;:
Mashand Globe Poultry/Scratch.

 

 

 

 

 

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2755 w. 35th Street N '
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illustrated
booklet. "Feed
-/" from the Egg to the

« "/ Market."tellshowtocutdown
. death rate in chicks. howrto keep
poultry strong and healthy. Not a catalog.
net at commonsense discusswn on feeding.
containing data of value toall poultryrais-
ere. A copy will be sent you absolutely free.

. Here Is what
CORRECT FEEDING will do

1 Save 50% of your chicks
2 Increase egg production
8 Ward 01? poultry diseases
4 F alien your market fowls

COLLIS PROCESS PURE
DRIED BUTTERMILK

lies necessary ingredients to give a per-
{83% balanced mash: Should be added to
all mash feeds (10% is enough but 2 o is
not too much). It is packed in 8%. 2 . 50
and 100 lbs.

COLLIS PRODUCTS 00.
General Offices, Clinton, la. Dept. 295
Your dealer should be able to supply you.
but if he cannot. insist that
he order some from us. or
we will supply you direct.

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DAY OLD BHIBKS

Tom Barron English White Leghorn
Chicks. Get our reduced prices.
Chicks from our special 2-year—old
hens $10 per 100 lot. $48.50 per 500
lots. $95 per 1000. Order direct from
this advertisement, and save time. Cir-
cular free. Reference, Holland City
State Bank. We guarantee 100% alive
on arrival.

Hillcrest Poultry Farms 8» Hatchery,
R. 2, Box D, Holland, Mich.

 

 

Husky Livable Chaps

If you want healthy. vigorous, pure-
bred chicks from flocks carefully se-
lected and tested for heavy laying and standard
qualifications typical of the variety they represent,
chicks that will mature Quickly and improve your
flock. then you. want “SUNNYBROOK” chicks.
We specialize in S. C. W. Leghorns, $13 per 100:
Barred Rocks, :15 per 100; Rhode Island Reds.
$16 per 100: and White Wyandottes. $18 Der 100.
In lots of 500 or more 50c per 100 less.
live delivery guaranteed. Postage paid. Catalog
tree. SUNNY BROOK POULTRY FARM.
HILLSDALE. MICHIGAN.

Chicks---Pullets

High quality stock. Delivery 100% live and strong
guaranteed. Chicks every week. Eight weeks and 3
mo. Pullets.

Barred and White Rocks, Reds, White and Silver
Laced Wyandottcs, White and Butt Omingtons. Black
Minorciis. Anconas. White, Brown and Bull Leghorns.
Send for Chick or Pullet Circular With price list.
STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Kalamazoo. Michigan.
Arrive Altmlur International Chlt‘ Amdatlnn
Member Mirhigan .9111: Farm Bureau

CHICKS WITH PEP

Ohio Accredited. Every bird passed
by inspector trained and authorized
by the Poultry Department Ohio
State University. Prize winners at
many shows from National down.
Developed for high on production
for many years. Free range flocks in
best of health. $100% live delivery.
Thirteen breeds. Catalog free. Prices
low, quality considered.

Holoato Chick Hatchery. Box BM. Holgate. Ohio

El 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

THE KAZOO HATCHERY CO.
R. R. 3 Kalamazoo, Mich

L-O-O-K!

Cur ship chicks of high grade quality at once. Barred
Rocks, Reds, White Rooks, 14¢ each. Wyandottea, Bun
mgtons. Buff Rooks. 15%c. White, Brown Leg-
Anconas. 12%c. Mixed lieavies. 120.
Mixed light breeds. 8c. May chicks $1.00 per 100
less. June chix, $2.00 less. Order direct from this adv.
If less than 100 is wanted add 350 extra. Hatching
circular tells about 15 first class varieties.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
  

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I Wish to thankmyou fer Conferrinjg
the Golden Circle honor upon me and
for the Golden Circle pin. I hope I
can prove myself deserving of this

‘ .honor.

I thought the Merry Circle pin an
appropriate center for the Golden Cir».
cle, since it seems to indicate that,
whether a. member of the Golden Cir-
cle or not, each Merry Circler should
shine forth like a. golden ray, beaming
with happiness, active with health,

 

Merry Circle Fund

A T this writing we have $58.52

in the Merry Circle Fund to
buy radios for the tubercular
kiddies at the T. B. Sanitarium
near Howell. Some 'nice contri—
butions have come'in, but the
flood of nickels and dimes from
the great army of Merry Circlei's
has not arrived yet. We are all
soldiers in life, and as such all
of us should do our duty to the
best of our ability. What each
of us do, often does not amount
to much, but the combined ef-
forts of many usually result in
great and worthy accomplish-
ment of the Merry Circlers.
Have you done your share yet?
~Uncle Frank.

 

 

 

and radiant with God-given beauty;
that each member of the Golden Circle
should be a ray of sunshine spreading.
the beams afar from the shining circle
in order to keep the Golden Circle
truly golden, even as we have tried to
keep the white and blue of: our M. C.
without a spot of unloyalty.

I was much interested in the letters
written by the “White Amaranth,” and
the “Silent Reader,” though I wonder-
ed which depicted the thoughts of the
Writer, most, the representative of the
floral kingdom or of the human mind.

The White Amaranth’s letter made
me feel as though my ambitions were
chin-deep in some far off quicksanri
mire. Although in reality they seem
to be merely smouldering and at the
right time Will burst forth into flames
which will shoot up to the height of
success; not burn and burn furiously
like a fire, that having been checked,
burns itself out, but like one that, a.
mere coal, glows and smoulders, at
last shooting into hungry flames which
cannot be checked until at last they
reach the Haven of Success and there
feast upon the wondrous marvels, and
partake of all the festivals and tourna-
ments with knowledge (the greatest
Sister to Success).

The Silent Reader’s letter recalled a
statement I once read which was: (if
I may quote), “To bring up a child

 

 

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Some M. C.
. L4 Few Comni‘émfx" 5y 4 Golden Circler i
, Dear-Uncle Frank: . i ,

Thoughts  

means carrying one’s soul in one’s
hands, setting one’s foot on a narrow
path. It means never placing ourselves
in danger of meeting the cold look on'
the 'part of a. child that tells us With-
out Words'that he finds us insuflicient

andunreiiabie. it means the/humble
realization that the ways of being use-
ful to him are few. The slightest mis-

trust, the smallest unkindness, the

least .not of contemptuous ridicule
leave wounds that last for life, in the
finely strung soul of a child.”—Your

- niece, Wilma. Fry. ‘

I am a little late in getting thisin,
but age has not caused a. deterioration
of its. goodness. The rest of your‘let—
ter Will be continued in our next issue,

 

 

Dear Uncle Frank: ,

My ideas about smoking are these:
I do not believe that it is:right for a
growing boy to smoke. Between the
ages of twelve and twenty, smoking
does more harm than in all the remain-
ing years. .

I saw five reels on the effect of to-
bacco. It showed forcibly the evil
caused by it, especially if used before
the age of twenty. It also showed the
effects on a. rat in comparison, with a.
rat which had not been given any» As
a; result, in five days’ time the rat
having tobacco given to it died. I
think this shows as clearly as any-
thing else what tobacco does.

Also, I want to know if it is against

the rules to typewrite answers to puz—
zles—Your niece, Nora Severance,
Grand Blanc, Mich.

Thanks for what you say about
smoking. There are no rules against
using typewriter in contests.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

_ I have just read a letter on smok-
ing. Sorry to say, it was of a girl
living in Cadillac, the nearest city to
Lucas. I didn’t know there were such
refined ladies so near. If she thinks
that smoking keeps a boy from be-
coming a man, I thoroughly disagree.
I don’t see any more wrong in smok:
ing than I do in the using of that ever-
lasting powder puff.

As long as the girls will let us
smoke in peace, we will let them use
their puffs, but if they are going to try
to make us quit smoking, they might
become sorry, eh, boys? Smoking is
all right as long as it is not done too
much, I think.——Your nephew and
cousin, Garret Klinge, Lucas, Mich.

I agree that smoking does not nec-
essarily make a. boy unmanly, but it

is a useless habit that hasn’t one good

 

quality to it. Powder does not injure
the health, but smoking does.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

White Amaranth, Just Peggy, and
Halcyone interested me very much and
I admire their ability to express them-
selves. I thought l’d try it; gee, you
should see the results. Guess there’s
nothing in my head to express. My
nickname is “Windy," (sounds roman-
tic, thrilling, etc, beside the others,
doesn’t it) ? Originating from the fact

 

l-I-lelen Piper’s Mule Looks as if it were
Asleep on the Job. Are You?

that I tell everything I know, or, in
other words, talk too much. ‘

_I had to look up Amaranth in the
dictionary for I hadn’t the slightest
idea. Whether it was a. girl’s name or
something to eat. I bet I’m not the
only one who didn’t. ’Fess up, now.
I asked mother the meaning while she
was working cross word puzzles and
she replied, “Amaranth, Amaranth, let
1Ilne think; how many letters should it

ave." /

. I think I’d better close (What a re-
lief'SlghS Uncle Frank), now. Thank-
mg you again for my pin, I remain,
very Sincerely, La Vendee Adolph, Un-
ionnCity, Mich.

I’ll ’fess up. I had to look up Amar-
anth myself. I’ll say your nickname is
quite romantic.

From Happiness Spreaders
W Izat Some Contn'éutor: to t/ze M. C. Have to Say

Having read of the endeavors of the
Merry Circle boys and girls to pur-
chase radios for the Sanatorium at
Howell, The Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Central M. E. Church are sending five
dollars toward that fund. With best
Wishes'for your success—Mrs. Fred
C. Klumpff, See, North Street P. 0.,
Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

This plan of what to do With our
Merry .Circle Fund interests me great-
ly. I have been through the Howell
Sanatorium and at present I have a
cousin there. She is not in bed.

I think a radio for these poor boys

 

and girls would be wonderful, and
nothing could be a better way for .the
fund to be_spent. I am sure all Merry
Circlers Wish to make other poor sick
children happy.

I am very much in favor of a radio,

as we have one in our home. They
sure are a wonderful invention.
_ I am, With the greatest of pleasure,
inclosmg a sum of money that 1 Wish
{{outwould add to your fund—Ruth

oo .

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

I think your idea of giving radios to
the Howell Sanitarium is very nice.
It Will make the boys and girls so
happy. I am enclosing my first con-
tribution to the Merry Circle Fund.—
Your niece, Lucile Parkhurst.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

The money I am sending to the M.‘

C. Fund I saved by going Without
candy and oranges—Your nephew,
Emil Sweet.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

We are denying ourselves a small
bit'to help the children at the Sana-
torium. It is only a small amount, but
there may be some Merry Circlers
who .Will put in more so that it Will
be made up for. A dime apiece is not
a great lot of money, but if all the
Merry Circlers would send as much

there would soon be enough to help-

the children have a. lot of fun. We

hope you get the whole amount, and.‘

Wish we could send more—From your
nieces, Edna and 110 Stockton. '

 
 

 

    

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,. _ moral c
high school? . , .
Yesterday a. woman from the health
department of our state spoke before
the high school. What she said espe-
cially appealed to me. Her subject
was on cleanliness, or “Keeping Fit,”
as she called it. The thing that stood

out most strongly in her talk, and up-

on which she put most stress, was
cleanliness of the mind.

Don’t you think, Uncle Frank, that
morals have a lot to do with a her-

son’s station in life? Doesn’t the boy

who has his morals and respects them,

find it far easier to reach his goal hf

ambition than he who does whatever

occurs to him, whether or not it is
right? . '

I know many fellows who seem to
think that a girl doesn’t care what is
said to her.
are the fellows whom everyone likes,

who wouldn’t dream of saying any-

thing that couldn’t bear repeating.

This morning in one of our classes
we discussed the subject and the in-
structor said that our‘ duty as high
school students was, not only to study
but to prepare ourselves for our life
work and that everyone should live
by certain morals, thereby making bet-
ter men and women.

Please, will you give your opinion
- on the matter?—“Ego.”

I can shout amen to everything
you say. Moral cleanliness and the
facts of life should be taught. .The
only caution is to get a capable, mor-
ally clean person to teach them.

TONGUE TWISTER CONTEST.

SHORT time ago I received sev-

eral requests for a tongue twister
contest. If that’s what you want, you
shall have it.

The two boys or girls who send in
the two best tongue twisters, will get
fountain pens for prizes. The next
three will receive dictionaries, and the
next five will et knives for their
work. Neatness will count in the se-
lection of the winners. All who send
in two good twisters but are not mem-
bers of the Merry Circle will get M.
C. pins and cards.

Please put your name and address
in the upper left hand corner of the
paper and put M. C. after your name
if you are a Merry Circler.

Send your papers to Uncle Frank,
Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Michigan,
before May 7, for the contest closes
*then.

THE PIE WINNERS.

THOUGHT that our pie contest was

so easy, but apparently it was not,
for only ten got the charity quotations
correct. The chief cause of error was
that “And learn the luxury of doing
good” was made part of another quo-
tation.

I know others, and they

  

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» Irma J. Henn, R 4, Brown City,

M1011. '

Glada Miller, Fairview, Mich.

Virginia Wescott, Rockford, Mich.

M.Elllizabeth Heald, R. 3, South Haven,
1c .

 

  

 

LAST WEEK'S CONTEST.

ERE are the quotations on charity
which were pied last week, and

which we asked you to help us out on
last week:

We are rich only through what we
give, and poor only through what we
refuse.

Be charitable and indulgent to eve-
ryone but yourself.

He is truly great who hath a great
charity.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

Cast thy bread upon the waters;
for thou shall find it after many days.

SPRING.

What is that,

Which in the morn or" year
Entrances all to dance and sing?
To raise aloft a lusty cheer,
In praise of what?

Of Spring.

What is that,
Wlhich comes to bring,
The warbling of the robin.
Which makes our souls with glad-
ness sing,
And sets our hearts a’ throbbin’?
\Vhy, Spring.

What is that.
Which helps to bring,
The tiny budslets out,
Which helps the breezes gently blow
The lofty trees about?
That is Spring;
By Ruth McPhail, M. C.

IBarred Rocks and Reds
Chicks

 

 

 

From sturdy. healthy. free range lloelts. Tested for
l Baelllnry White Diarrhea. 100”}; live delivery guar-
r amt-ed.

1 Prices: 50 100 500
l Foreman Strain Barred Rot-ks ......... $8 $15 $65

Selected Barred Rooks ................ 7 13 60

iii. I. Reds ............................. 7 13 60

‘Spr-einl prir'es on 1.000 lots. “'ritc for why. 8-
I week-old I’ullets and 4»week ehieks. Refreenec,
inlrmers' & Merchants' Bank. Milan, Mich.

fKrueper, Poultry Farm 8b Hatchery
Milan, Mich.

 

 

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BABY CHICKS

$9.00 iii; $42.50 $06 $80.00 $250
For Immediate Delivery

Order Direct from this Ad.

These chicks are from pure-bred stock and are guar-
anteed to give you satisfaction. Shipped prepaid
and guaranteed live arrival. Write or Wire your
order TODAY.

8 to 10 weeks old White Leghorn Pullets at 90c and $1.10 each

Place Your Order Now

CONSOLIDATED CHICKERIES

ZEELAND, MICHIGAN

 

 

   

BRED FOR SIZE.
TYPE and EGGS

EstidwaE LEGHORNS

The Big, Deep Bodied Hens with the Large
Combs, That Produce the Large W hite Eggs.

The chit-ks we otter you lhi.‘ year are from extra selected hens. sired
by males out of hem that laid 2T0 egg; in 305 days these males Doing
aired by a male from a BOO-egg hon. The price asked for thorn is
very r'ezuoiiuhlr, TIP“! will bring you bigger profits and absolute
s;ltl.".t".l.v'lion.

You will be henenfred hv our 15 years experience hatching and ship«
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and brings big rerurm in our r'llxlrimera' hands. Let us mail you our

catalog with lll‘lt'L‘S. 1011"}. live arrival guaranteed.

gNINE WEEKS OLD PULLETS IN MAY.
WOLVERINE HATCHERY

H. P. WIERSMA, Prop. R.R. 2, Box 97 Iceland, Mich.

 

 

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Sacpiol Oversupply ct}:
Prices for MayZand

June Delivery

ENG. WHITE LEGHORNS~50. $0;
100. $11: 500. $50. Barred Rocks,
R. I. lods. Aneonns. 50. $7: 100. $13; 500, $00.
Husky, pure-bred stock. I’Ostpaid; 100% delivery
guaranteed. Send 10% with order. pay balance on
arrival. Order now tor immediate or future shipment
direct from ad.

WINTER EGG FARM, Box l0. Zceland. Michigan.

Pure Bred CHICKS
"Baby Chicks With a Future"
Our flocks have been thoroughly culled for years for
heavy egg production. We know we are offering you
the best your money can buy in Quality t'hieks. We
guarantor) 100% Live Delivery.

 
 

 

 

 

 

I thought that this contest was a
suitable one at this time when we are
trying to make the Merry Circle Fund
grow. I am glad that several Merry
Circlers thought the same about it.

The prize winners are as follows:

Fountain Pens.
Martha Wender, Sebewaing, Mich.
Linea Carlson, Reed City, Mich.
Dictionaries.
Joyce I. Mitchelle, R. 2, Grand Blanc,

50 101) 500 1,000
(‘. W11. Leghorns ........... $0 $12 $57.50 $115
Tl. I Reds and 1;. l’. Roeks.. 8 15 72 00 1-10

(‘atalog on Request. Bunk Rdcrenr-os.

A. 0. Richardson Hatchery. Box “",J Dundee, Mlchlgan
$10.00 per Hundred for May Chicks

Largo. egg type. pure Barron White Leghorns. STATE

DEMONSTRATION FLOt‘K RECORD and descriptive

circular on request, or order from advertisement and

save delay. 100% Live delivery prepaid.

JUNE IIATCIIED l‘IIlX. $0.00 PER HUNDRED.

PLANKTON POULTRY PLANT. Sycamore. Ohio.
Barron S. W.

(‘.
C H I C K Leghorns. $10 per

100. Live delivery guaranteed. Ten extra. with each
100 if ordered five weeks in advance. WATERWAY

 

 

 

Mich.

HATCHERY. R. 4, Holland, Mlch.

 

  

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this local business we have

HIGH QUALITY WHITE LEGHORNS

That has brought us results over a. much larger field than we had anticipated. We now make thd following
Rah, Romeo Savings Bank. Romeo. Michigan.

prices. 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. Postpaid.
For Delivery May lst to May 15th. Pastpaid

Torn Barron Selected White Leghorns . ..... . ........
For Delivery May 18th to June lst ...................
For Delivery after June lst. ...., .............

HONESTY IS OUR MOTTO. That is why our local business has been built up to such a satisfactory extant.

Catalog Free.

W. A Downs Poultry Farm, 0? Box 104,

DOWNS

For forty three years the name Downs has been associated with poultry.
During most of thin time our business has

TAl'lCRED-BARROH
LEGHORNS

l 925

     

_ been purely local. Thru
built up a reputation for

25 50 100 500 1000
. . . . . . . . . ...... $3. 0 $0.50 $13.00 $02.50 $120
.......... ..... 3.25 6.00 11.50 55 00 100

........ .......2.75 5.00 9.00 4250 85

Washington, Michigan

 

 

White and Brown Leghorns. Anconas 50 lot) 500 1000
Selected Mating ................................................ $5.50 Sl0.00 $45.00 $ 85
Extra Selected Mating .................................. - ........ 6.50 l2.00 55.00 "15
Barred Rocks ................................................. 7.50 ”.00 65.00 I30
Mixed chicks or broilers ........................................ 4.00 8.00 40.00 80

Prices for June 8-l5 delivery. lc pcr chick lcu.
Price: after lune l5 delivery. 2c per chick lean.

TOWN LINE POULTRY FARM, “The Personal Service Hatchery." Zecland. Mich.. R. l. Box l5.

Ellra Quality Egg-Bred 0 ll I 0 K 8
1.2123503: Reduced Prices 3.00323:

Strong, sturdy. Newtown hatched chicks, produced on our own
modern li5~al‘l'l‘ poultry farm. from llorlts spw-inlly r-ullod and
mated under our personal SIIIJI‘I‘IFIOH. Barron English and 1101-
lywood strain 8. ('. White Leglmrns. Sheppard's Aneonas. direct
from Slinppard Farm. Shipped postpaid. 100% live delivery
guaranteed. Order now for May delivery at the following prices:

 

 

 

  

lowestl’rices

catalog Free Michigan Poultry Farm, Box 4, Holland, Mich. USA.

Michigan Pedigreed Heavy Laying Strains

  

Are from champion 'l'anerod and Tom Barron White Leghorn foundation stock. Record. 265
to 302 eggs. Headed by males Irom Internntlonnl Egg Laying Contest Winners Bred and
hatched by experts. Most- modern equipment in Michigan. Hand picked and inspected—no
wonkliugs. Will grow and make you a profit. Also Sheppard Anr‘ouas, I’urk Strain Barred
Rocks; 8-wnek-olrl pullets. 100%) vigorous delivery rind satislurtion guaranteed. W. pay
postage and our prices are right. Our catalog tells the ntory———it’a free—write (or it now.

 

DUNDEE CHICKS

Stock Guaranteed Pure Bred and Blood Tested tor Bacillary Whlie Diarrhea

Bred for early laying and high egg Production. Write for prices. Barred Plymouth Rocks. Rhodc Island

Reds, English W. Leghorns and Anconas.

100 92. Live Delivery guaranteed.
Ref. Dundee State Savings Bank.

Dundee Hatchery & Poultry Farm Box A, Dundee, Mich.

 

 

 

DILIGENT CHICKS DID IT

Postpaid I)l‘ll‘t‘> on 100 500
Single Comb White Leghorm ................................ $5.25 $10.00 $472.50
Barred l’lynmulll Rocks ..................................... 0.75 13.00 0250
S. (‘. Mottled Aneonas ..................................... 5.75 11.00 52.50
Mixed Phil-kc ............................................... 4.25 8.00 37.50
Low in price, high in quality. Llu- delimry guarantmd. Order right from this ad.

or send for our catalog; still better. visit our firm, we are located on the M~ll
t-nment road 2 Miles north of Holland. We have pullers for sale after May 1.
DILIGENT HATCHERY 8. PULLET FARM. Holland, Mich. Harm l. Knoll. Owner.

 

 

Ancona Chicks at Bargain Prices

We are oflering for immediate or future shipment. several thousand Aneona. chicks at following prices!

$9.00 per 100; $80 per 1,000.

ment.

Vriesland Hatchery,

 

  

100% live delivery by prepaid Parcel Post.

White Leghorns $00 per 1,000.
Vriesland, Mich.

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number of associations in operation in
one county—namely, nine cow testing
associations—~relates that the city of
Flint, Michigan, was beginning to
crowd his lean-to barn so hard that he
felt he had to sell‘out. Dickinson in-

in one of the Genesee County Cow
Testing Associations. After ten
months Dickenson sold out his twelve
cows and realized just $400 increased
cattle values ‘On his investment of $39.
In addition Dickenson said his ten
months’ testing was worth equally as
much in the savings in feed cost made
on his herd.

Dickenson, commenting after the
sale, said, “I got better cows through
intelligent feeding based on records.”
I knew what each cow was producing
and fed on the basis of the amount of
milk produced. I fed the good cows
more; the laggards less. Cow testing

 

’Ihe pure-bred bull is selling himself
stronger than ever now that cow test-
ing associations are getting depend-
able data on his offspring.

demonstrates that there is‘ good profit
in cows if they are fed and kept right.
It will show how to feed and care for
each individual cow. That meant a
gieat deal to me. Other farmers will
find it so.”

Probably the greatest advantage of
the cow testing association to any in-
dividual or to any community spirit is
that it stimulates a greater interest
and creates a. better spirit in the com-
munity. M. L Noon, member of the
Grass Lake, Jackson County, Cow
Testing Association, and president of
,the Michigan State Farm Bureau, said
'he could not begin to estimate the
value of the cow testing association to
him. He said that his boy had not
taken any particular interest in cows
before they joined the cow testing as-
sociation and that he really had not
been greatly interested in any partic-
ular thing about the farm, but he
found himself when he began to keep
records in the herd. He found he had
a, cow that was good enough to lead
all other cows in the association, and
that the boy had fully decided that he
was going to stick to the cows from
now on.

From the experience of the Michi-
gan cow testing association members
it is clear that the joining of a cow
testing association will mean much to
the individual owner, for he will get
the exact facts about each of his cows.
He will feed more economically. He
will be able to tell the breeding value
of his sires through the records of
their daughters. He will be able to
create and establish values On the
cows in his herd.

In conclusion, let this thought be
kept in mind. During 1924 with only
3.7 per cent of the cows in Michigan
under test, 1924 unprofitable cows, or
ninety carloads, were sent to the
butcher for beef. It goes without say-
ing that the dairy cows represented in
the 3.7 per cent are to be found in the
best dairy herds in the state. If ninety
carloads of unprofitable cows are
found in the 3.7 per cent of cows in

 

 

 

the very best herds, it is apparent that

Why hTester is ‘POpular I

vested $39 to have twelve cows tested-

many hundreds of carloeds of unprofit-
able cows would be found, if a larger
per cent of Michigan cows were un-
der test.

 

, BULL CALF PAYS FOR ONE MAN’S
‘ TESTING.

 

RAYMOND G. POWELL reports a
very successful cow testing asso-

ciation year in Livingston No. 1
Cow Testing Association. One hun~
dred andgninety-flve cows finished the
year. Sixty-one good producing cows
were sold out of the association dur~
ing the twelve -months’_testing period.
In addition two herds were dispersed
and twenty additional profitless cows
were sold to the butcher; hence more
than 100 cows dropped out during the
association year.

Powell further says that more than
twenty-five pure-bred sires were sold
by the association members to be used
for breeding purposes. One member,
W. H. Smith, of Pinckney, sold his
bull calves to a feeder as his coWs
freshened. These calves were sold for
a. dollar a. head. Later when Mr. Smith
found that one of his cows produced
428 pounds of butter-fat and 13,354
pounds of milk in ten months, he set
about ,to buy back her bull calf. He
gaVe $20 for it. Smith kept the-bull
for a. short while. He resold the ani-
mal on the strength of its dam’s cow
testing association record, for $65. In
this way he made, after he bought the
calf back, more than the entire year’s
cow testing association work cost him.

Out of sixty fields tested for acidity
fifty-eight were lacking in lime. Each
member has alfalfa or clover seeded
on his farm. The average legume
acreage per farm is eighteen acres.

The herds averaging above 330 lbs.
of butter-fat and owned by the follow-
ing men were. J. G. Hays 5, PB H;
Stanley Latson 7, PB G; M. J. Mc-
Pherson 15.4, PB H; E. D. Ellis &
Sons 9, PB H; E. H. Morlock 8, PB
H; W. H. Smith 11, PB H; Gail Clem-
9, PB H; \Mm. I Griffin 5, PB H;
. Tooley 7, PB H; C. P. Reed 9,
H; J. R. Crouse 17, PB H.

FINISHES TWO YEARSVWORK.

 

THE North Clinton County Cow
Testing Association has completed

two years’ work. Ford Morgan,
the tester, reports that the average
production for the 202 cows owned by
the members was 7,529 pounds of milk
and 283 pounds of butter-fat. Below
is given the average number of cows
in the herds which averaged above
300 pounds of butter-fat:

I. Koenigsknecht, 8.9 PB H; E.
Himes, 13.9 PB H; C. H. Shafley. 5.9
PB H; P. Barnhart & Sons, 7.8 PB H;
H. Scott, 7.8 PB J; M. Paine, 10 Gr.
H; C. Langdon, 5.8 PB H; Wright &
Vansickle, 9.6 PB H; 'L. Brown, 10.5
PB H; O. Langdon, 19 PB H.

Justa. Bess, a seventeen months’ PB
J produced 5,367 pounds of milk and
291.3 pounds of butter—fat during nine
months in the testing association. C.
L. Shafley’s PB H heifer under three
years old produced 14,766 pounds of
milk and 494 pounds of butter-fat. I.
Koenigsknecht’s PB H cows under
four and under five years old respec-
tively were high individuals in these
age classes. Mr. Paine’s Gr. H No. 7
was high cow in the mature age class.

GETTING INTERESTED IN
ALFALFA.

 

 

THE Ogemaw County Cow Testing
Association has completed two
years’ work and George Vander-

wall, the tester, is continuing testing

for the third year. In the annual re-
port drawn up by VanderWall the
high herd in- butter-fat is found to be-
long to Wm. Matthews. The high herd

in milk production is owned by W. E.

Cook, of West Branch. These herds

averaged above 300 pounds cf butter-

fat. In addition the following mem-
bers had herds which averaged above

300 pounds of butter-fat production:

Ernest Bailey, 11 Gr. H; Geo. Lich—
feldt, 9 Gr. J ; Ewell & Stork, 5 Gr.
J & G; Wm. Waters, 7 Gr. H; George
E. Parish, 11 Gr. H.

The four poorest herds in butter-fat
production, composed of fifty-five cows .
of mixed breeding averaged 213 pounds '
of fat; VanderWall reports much in-
terest in alfalfa. Better returns over
cost of feed are expected by each own-
er for this year more attention is be-
ing given to legume crops—George
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. , OLSTEIN breeders in Tithe vicin-
’ ' ity of Spring Arbor, Jackson

county, recently formed a bull
club, using two related bulls of better
than ordinary breeding.

The bulls came from the herd of
John Erickson & Sons, of Waupaca,
W'isconsin, the herd that averaged at
its dispersal last June, $1,139 per head.
This remarkable average is said to
be the highest obtained in the history
of the Holstein breed where the ani-
mals were practically all of one man’s
breeding. Naturally, then, the bulls
the spring Arbor breeders obtained
are top notch.

One bull is a son of Wisconsin Pride,
that grand old matron, herself with a
yearly record of 696.75 pounds of but—
ter at twenty—five months, and again
at four and one-half. years 743.93
pounds of butter from 16,7536 pounds
of, milk. Old Pride is famous for her
three daughters, all full sisters, that
average over 1,100 pounds of butter, a
showing unequaled by any other three
full sisters regardless of age. Their
average milk yield is a world’s record
for age.- Of these sisters, one, Pride
3rd, is the breed’s youngest three
times 1,000-pound cow. Another, Pride
2d, is the American champion with
' 1,327.93 pounds of butter in a year

at three and one-half years of age. Her
milk record at the same age—29,5029
pounds—is a world’s record. The
youngest member of this trio, Pride
4th, made 912.3 pounds of butter at
two and one—half years.

Surely the Spring Arbor club hull,
with three sisters like these, is hard
to equal in breeding.

The sire of the bull contributes some
more excellent blood. He is Admiral
Ormsby Fobes, whose dam, Wisconsin
Fobes 5th, is known-far and wide as
the largest dairy cow in the world——
weighing 2,250 pounds. She has a ten-
month’s record of 1,079 pounds of but-
ter, 25,6172 pounds of milk. ,She has
a seven-day record at two and one-half
years of age of 29.68 pounds, formerly

the \Visconsin state record for the
age. Fobes 5th brought $6,500 in the
Erickson dispersal, being surpassed
only by her full sister, Fobes 6th,
which brought $6,800. The sire of
Admiral Ormsby Fobes, Marathon Bess
Burke, is out of an 1,164-pound daugh-
ter of the famous cow, Spring Brook
Bess Burke, with 1,094 pounds; and Sir
seventeen daughters wtih thousand-
seventeen daughters with thousand—
pound records.

And so on back, great animals of
the breed appearing in the bull’s ped-
igree. In fact, the average for his

Spreads Optimum flmng‘ Ddz'rymen

’ I ‘HE dairy industry seems to be entering upon a period of op-
timism and expectation for normal production and good pric-

es for the season just ahead.

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period, and was coincidentwith

largest storage stock of butter ever accumulated in this country.

 

{nearest fourteen dams, each tested and
_without a. skip, is 27.97 pounds of but-

The disappearance of the very ,
large storage stocks which were accentuated at the first of the ’
year, accompanied by a sharp advance in prices in March, has \‘
given ample indications of an apparent increase in consumption

Dr. C. V. Larson, chief of the dairy bureau of
States Department of Agriculture,

 

ter in a week. This includes four im-
mature records. Elevenof these dams
have been tested for a year, averaging
1,009.92 pounds of butter, and 24,4780
pounds of milk. .

Now for Bull Number Two of the
Spring Arbor Bull Club. He is bred
along the same lines as the bull just
described, being also a grandson of
Marathon Bess Burke. In fact, he is
a double grandson. In addition to the
related breeding mentioned, we find
Wisconsin Pride 4th, half-sister to
Bull Number One, the grandson of
Bull Number Two. The average of
the seven nearest dams, excepting the
immediate dam which has never been
tested, is over 940 pounds of butter in
a year.

As to‘type the bulls are very good
indeed. Constructive line-breeding,
the proven best means of fixing type
and production will be possible in the
using of this pair of bulls. One will
be bred on the daughters of the other.
By this system of use the club will be
provided with service of a bull for at
least four years without in-breeding.

An interesting feature of the estab-
lishing of this club is that this pair
takes the place of three other bulls
used in the neighborhood.

The Jackson county breeders who
united their aims and resources in
procuring this outstanding pair of
bulls are:

A. B. Crites, of Jackson, president;
T. Z. Jordan, of Spring Arbor, secre-
tary-treasurer; A. E. Tanner, Spring
Arbor; O. W. Crapser, Spring Arbor;
D. B. Cobb, Jackson.

County Agent R. E. Decker, cow
tester Fred L. Leonard, and State
Holstein Association Secretary, J. G.
Hays, all helped the boys get together
in the organiaztion. The future of the
Holstein industry in the vicinity of
Spring Arbor seems bound to be im-
mensely bettered by the using of two
such extraordinary bulls.

 

Conversion cost of producing butter
in the United States is 2.78 cents per
pound; in Denmark, 2.81 cents per
pound. The administrative and selling
expenses in the United States was
found to be .76 cent per pound; in
Denmark, .09 cents per pound. Inter-

est on invested capital is .36 cents per,

pound in the United States, and .33;
cents per pound in Denmark. The cost,'
of delivering butter to New York from '
the butter producing centers in the
United States is 1.41 cents; in Den—
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t one well-
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nearest dams average 686 lbs. tat. First $100 takes
him. MEADOW- GOLD GUERNSEY FARM. R. 8.
St. Johns, Mich.

FOR SALE- Reg. Guernsey Bull Calves

Sire by Lone Pine Ranger whose dam hasan
record of 17.6442 lbs. Milk. 936. 6 lbs. Fat. “No Fe-
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Ready for Service

An extra good. well grown calf. nearly all

white. Born April 1. 1924.

Sire: Traverse Prince Inks. Lad. a. half
brother to Traverse Colantha Walker.
World's record Sr. 2~yr.—old. His 84 A.
R. 0. daughters include 5 over 30 lbs. and
only a few tested in mature form.

Dam: Reformatory Pauline Segis Pontiac. at
4 y.rs 1 mo. Butter. 7 days. 26. 54; Milk.
600.7 lbs

Her sire is a grandson and her dam is a

granddaughter of King of the Pontiacs. sire

of 283 A R. 0. daughters.

Price $200. 00 F. O. B. 10111 '3

Send for pedigree of Ear Tani; No. 373.

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FOR SALE
Registered Holstein Bull

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months old. Accredited herd. E

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WALLS. Kingston.

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Attention of the Owners 5m herds ,3 can...
to the fact that we are offering two bulls ready for
service out of dams with good A.- R. 0. rec ords and
sired by two or the good bulls of the breed at bar-
gain prices. Also two bred heifers. LAKEFIELD
FARM. Clarkston. Mich.

FOR SALE REGISTERED HOLerm FRIE.

SIAN cows from 2 to 1
old. Some fresh. others to freshm soon. Will sell
one or more tosult purchaser. Best. of

Prices are right. HENRY 8. RDHLFS. Akron. Mich.

 

sWEET CORN FOB STOCK FEED-
me.

 

NE of the best crops for summer
seeding is sweet corn. The tall-
growing varieties produce almost
as much fodder as ensilage corn, and
the amount of sugar in the stalks is
much greater, hence cattle eat it up

 

strong for him to remain a soldier .

always, so he came back and bought
the farm adjoining the old Homestead.
“Jim” is Scotch enough to recognize

’a. good dollar when it gets within

reach, and when lands were selling
high in 1920 he took the big dollars
and let the other man have the farm.
President of the County Farm Bureau

 

We Have Come .to Recognize the Advantage of an Abundance of Sunshine
in Keeping the Hogs Healthy.

 

 

cleaner. I have found that Stowell’s
Evergreen is one of the most valuable
crops that can be grown on the farm.
When pasturage gets short in late
summer, the corn is ready to cut and
feed. At this time the stalks will be
large but the corn ears'will still be
undeveloped. Cows will clean up
stalks an inch in diameter, if thesr are
not fed too much of it. The milk flow
never fails to increase when sweet
corn feeding begins. Later, as the
fiber in the stalks hardens, the ani-
mals will not eat up the stalks as well,
but they will still eat it better than
any other kind of corn. As the ears
of corn begin to develop, they may be
husked and fed to the pigs. I know a.

I farmer who annually fattens a. nice

bunch of Berkshires on sweet corn.
The pigs are kept on clover pasture
until the corn is ready, then the fodder
is fed to the cows and the corn to
the pigs.

Large crops of sweet corn can be
grown almost anywhere. Often, a. con-
siderable income may be obtained by
selling part of the corn for roasting
ears and feeding the remainder to the
stock. If thisis done, one of the larg-
er varieties of yellow corn should be
planted. There is a kind known as
Golden Evergreen that sells well in
the market and at the same time pro-
duces almost as much fodder as the
older Stowell’s Evergreen.———C. H.
Chesley.

THE CAMPBELLS ARE COMING.

 

VERY progressive community has

its public-spirited citizens. Those
people are never too busy with their
own affairs to lend a hand to help the
community at large. It is upon these
people largely that real progress de-
pends. One of them lives on a good
little farm just out of St. Johns. His
name is “Jim” Campbell, and thus he
is known to thousands of people. With
him live Mrs. Campbell and one young
Campbell ”of Merry Circle age named
Kathrine.

Mr. Campbell has had a. rather wide
experience, but he can not stay long
away from Mother Nature and the
farm, and he is always busy with the
things that stand for farm progress.
As a. graduate engineer from the Ag-
ricultural College in '1908. he joined
the regular army and spent several
years in the service of Uncle Sam.
The call of the farm was, however, too

 

 

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at the time, he turned his attention
all to farm bureau work, helping in
the state campaign and later taking
charge of the work as county agricul-
tural agent in Huron county, with the
largest membership in the state. Serv-
ing three years here, he did some
wonderful work. Then he came back

the farm are pedigreed farin- seeds,a
neat little herd of Hereford cattle, and
the best Spotted Poland China hogs.
In the fall there are many‘crates or »
perfect apples, and recently we saw
450 healthy Barred Rock chicks in one
brooder house. “Jim” drives the trac-
tor himself and he and the hired man
are spreading themselves over a quar-
ter-section of land this year. An extra

_'farm has been taken on recently in
order to raise more corn to feed more

hogs and Herefords. -

In addition to these. private enter-
prises Mr. Campbell still finds time
to serve his community as secretary-
treasurer of the County Farm Bureau, ‘
and president of the county fair as.
sociation. Every community is better
off for having in it such folks as the
Campbells.

SOY-BEANS FOR FATTENlNG THE
LAMBS. -

 

OY—BEAN hay is somewhat‘inferior

to alfalfa bay for fattening lambs,
according to tests conducted by the
Illinois Experiment Station. The hay
required was about twenty per cent
greater with soy-bean hay than with
alfalfa. The edible portion of the soy-
bean hay was, however, as palatable
as alfalfa and as efficient in producing
gains, but it contained more refuse.

Soy-bean oil meal, when used as a.
supplement to shelled corn and soy-
bean straw, gave more rapid gains and
required less grain than did linseed
meal.

Soy-bean straw proved superior to
oat straw as feed for lambs. When
oat straw was fed with shelled com
and soy-bean oil meal, the gains were 7
less than with soy-bean straw and the
same concentrates.

Prosperity Arrives in Hogdom

New leat it ‘2} Here, we ark. “How Long Will 1'! Stay?”
By Gilbert Gusler

OGMEN are riding a prosperity

wave once more. After two

years of adversity, in which the
hog was regarded as a liability be-
cause of his board bill, be has again
reached the dignity of the “rent pay-
er” and the “mortgage lifter.”

Nor can it be said that prices are
up merely because the farmer has no
hogs to sell. Market receipts are run-
ning twenty-five to thirty—five per cent
less thanlast year, it is true, but they
are above the average for the ten
years prior to the period of extraor-
dinary over-production from which we
have just emerged. Prices, on the
other hand, are about sixty—five per
cent above the average of the past
two years.

This shows that the total amount of
hog money being returned to the coun-
try from the stockyards is greater
than it has been for many months. Of
course, the curtailment in production
points to a further decline in market
receipts within the next year, but it
seems that a proportionate additional
rise in price can be counted upon.

Based on such evidence as can be
had, there are not over four hogs on
farms, outside of spring pigs, where
there were five at this time last year.
If producers carried out their inten-
tions as expressed last fall, the spring
pig crop. will be fifteen to twenty per
cent smaller than a year ago.

This means that market receipts
during the summer and early fall will
be much short of the corresponding
period in 1924. At that time, they al-

ready were light enough to lift prices

from‘the $7.50 to the $11 level. Then,
the market supply from next October
to March, 1926, is likely to be around
twenty-five per cent ,less than in the
past winter. What will happen after

that depends on how large a crop of
pigs is farrowed next fall. That is a
matter which hog men are deciding
right now in planning the number of
broad sows to keep.

A year ago it was a foregone con-
clusion that a big advance in hog
prices was coming. There was no way
of telling just when, or in what man-
ner it would come, or how far upward
it would go. Now the market is on a
much higher level. How much more
can be expected in the major upswing
and what are the intermediate move
ments likely to be?

To this writer, it appears that the
bulk of the advance to be expected in
this cycle in hog prices has already
taken place. The seasonal fluctuations,
of course, will probably result in a.
further rise to a new high peak in the
late summer. The $16 level may be
reached or passed at Chicago at that
time. Prices next winter will be high-
er than they were during the past
winter. The price level in the summer
of 1926 may be higher than in 1925,
although that is not so certain. By
the end of the summer of 1926, it will
be logical to expect a major down
ward tI end to set in.

The ratio between prices of hogs
and of corn is the barometer of hog
production and, therefore, of the long
time trend of hog'prices. This ratio.
became unfavorable two years ago.
For twenty-four months the average
farm price of 100 pounds of live hogs
has been enough to pay for only about
8.5 bushels of corn. The average pro-

ducer must have a. ratio of about
eleven bushels before hogs look at-
tractive to him. i

The result has been the drastic cur-
tailment in production Which is being
reflected in present market recepits

 

 


    

  

  
 

  
  
 

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able that the corn-hog ratio would
.have turned favorable last fall. In-
stead, the rise in hog prices was offset
by a further adVancein corn. As a
result, the tendency to curtail produc-
tion was prolonged. This is likely to
mean an equally extended period of
favorable hog prices compared with
corn and a. more extreme rise in hog
prices before the top of the cycle is
reached than would have occurred if
last year’s corn crop had been 3. nor-
mal one.

Since March 1, hog prices have had
a further sharp 'upturn while corn
prices have had an equally abrupt de-
cline. As a result, the hog once more
is furnishing a better market for corn
than the corn market itself. This fav-

UPS AND DOWN. OF NO. PRICE. FOR C. YIARS

 

orable ratio is likely to continue for
many months.

The question is, how soon will hog
men respond to this change by in-
creasing production, how soon will the
gain in production be reflected in larg-
er market receipts and how soon will
the main trend of prices be down—
ward?

It is possible that the changed sit-
uation will result in a larger pig crop
next fall than that of last fall. A good
deal depends on whether corn prices
have another strong upturn next sum-
mer during the usual scarcity period,
on the summer prospects for the new
corn crop and on the behavior oi? the
summer hog market. Weighing all
these things in the balance and allow-
ing for the inertia in responding to
the changed situation which has only
existed for a few weeks thus far, and
assuming an average new corn crop,
the logical conclusion is that the pig
crop next fall will be about the same
as that 01' last fall. By next spring,
however, an increase of possibly ten
‘per cent in the pig crop, compared
with the crop of the present spring,
would not be surprising.

Next spring’s pig crop will begin to
come to market in the fall of 1926. It
is this line of reasoning which leads
to the conclusion already expressed
that the next major downward trend
in hog prices is likely to set in about
eighteen months from the present
time.

Market trends are not dependent on
production and receipts alone. De-
mand also is subject to change and
must be given due consideration in
calculating market probabilities.

It is not easy to trace ahead What
the strength of the domestic and for-
eign demand for hog products will be
as it is to forecast the tendency of
production and ol,‘ market receipts
over a long period if normal condi—
tions prevail. But, within broad lim-
its, the tendency of demand can be
estimated.

The present business situation and
outlook points to as healthy 3. domes-
tic demand during the remainder of
1925 as it was in 1924. Nor is there
clear evidence of any material decline
in 1926.

Foreign demand for hog products
also should be well sustained. Indus-
tries abroad are reviving, employment
is increasing, purchasing power is
larger than in the last two or three-
years and foreign standards of living
are rising once more to their pre-war
level.

This does not mean, of course, that
domestic consumption per capita and

 

. ( ‘ t n averagecorn crop-
[been produced in 1924, it is ' rob-...

tion must inevitably decline.“ But, it
means that no decline in. buying pow--
eris coming thatwill neutralize the
effect of lighter production and thus
prevent prices ’from rising.

Higher prices will check consump‘
This was apparent in 3

tion, of course.
foreign demand when prices first ad-
vanced last summer and tall. At pres.
ent, exports are running about a third
lighter than a year ago, showing that
more of our customers abroad are do-
ing without rather than pay the pres-
ent price scale. Furthermore, domes-
tic consumption of hog products is

about one-fifth less than at this time

last year.
With the certainty of lighter re-
ceipts of hogs in the next ”twelve to

eighteen months and with the proba-
bility of a continued good demand,
hog prices should hold most of their
gains during the last two months, rise
still higher in the next period of sea-
sonal scarcity in late summer, and
continue for many months on an at-
tractive level, both absolutely and as
compared with corn. The pig crop
farrowed this spring and next fall
should create more real wealth for the
hog men than any produced since 1918.

mummnmmnmmmmunmnl

= Veterinary.

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CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAI/R. i

 

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each case and give, name and address of the writer. Initial-
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Grub-in-the-Head.—I have a sheep
that has been sick for some time. Our
veterinary tells me that she has grub-
in-the-head. J. H., Carson City, Mich.
~You might try pouring a mixture of
snuff and olive oil into nose, but place
the sheep on its back when you do it.
In some cases Wire snares formed of
small loops can be used to advantage
in removing the grubs.

Bursal Bunch on K.nec.——I have a
four-year—old cow that has had soft
bunch on knee for the past twelve
months. Our veterinary claims it was
caused by lying down. . J. M., Chelsea,
Mich—Apply equal parts of tincture
of iodine and spirits of camphor to
bunch daily. Keep her in well bedded
box stall.

Ringbone.—My horse has a hard
bunch on leg close to hoof which caus-
es severe lameness. What shall I do
for him? E. L. A., Columbus, Mich.—
Either have your veterinary fire him,
or apply any one of the commerciall
ringbone remedies which are regularly
advertised in this paper. You must
give the horse rest.

GUERNSEYS

50 Cows—Bred and Open
Heifers - Bulls—50

Michigan Guernsey Breeders’ Ass’n

Annual Consignment Sale

May 27th, 1925

Agr’l College, East Lansing
HOLSTEIN BULL

from 1 month to 16 months old. Sons 2 nearest
dams, average 34 lbs. butter. High record. A. B'. O.
dams. Will sell a few cows. l. A. Kidney, Brant, Mich.

Quality HOISIGIDS of ago. Good Individuals and
Well Bred. at from $50 to 375. according to age.
I. III. SHORMAN. Fowlervlllc. Mich.

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15 Cows, 4 hulls from R. or M. Cows. Chonco to
select from hard of T0. Borne fresh, out: bra!
for fall Ircshcnina. Colon C. Lillie. Coopcrnvillo. Mich.

BUTTER BRED Fm. SAL.

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Silver Creek, Allegan County, Michigan

 

 

' Shorthorn Bulls.
DaVISOD Farm ones. 1 year old.

als. ALEX. BRUCE. Mon, R. I, Davison.
Best of quality and breeding.

Shorthorns rows and heifers for sale. BID

STOCK FARM. Box D, Tocumoch, Mich.

Two extra. good
Fine individu-
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Bulls.
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Bulls. cow; and heir~
era for sole. RALPH
Bronson. Mloh-

Hereford Steers

56 Wt. Around 950 lbs. 60 Wt. Around 850 lbs.
fill Wt. Around 740 lbs. 80 Wt. Around 650 lbs.
142 Wt. Around 600 lbs. 47 Wt. Around 550 lbs.
52 Wt. Around 500 lbs. 58 Wt. Around 450 lbs.
Also many other bunches. Deep reds. dehorned. good
stocker order. Real quality Herofords are usually
market toppers when finished. Will sell your choice
from any brunrh. VAN B. BALDWIN. Eldon, Wa-
pello 00., Iowa.

Registered Hereiords

CALHOON. Branch 00..

' ‘ ' Our bulls of service—
le ng Jerseys able age are all sold.
but we have a few bull calves of excellent breeding.
sired bv our great herd sire. Financial King Sousa-
tion. Our prices are reasonable. COLDWATER JER-
SEY FARM. Goldwater. Mich. "

 

Bulls ready for service,
olsooi’ew fancies. Allfrom
Accredited herd. Smith & Parker.
Howell. Mich.

Gotfredson Farms
Shorthorns

[lord headed by Maxwalton Mark. a good son of the
celebrated Rodney. Good bulls and females for sale
at all times at prices that are reasonable. We invite
you to inspect one of the good breeding plants of
the country. Write to the Superintendent.

Gotfrcdson Farms, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Jerseys For Sale
JR. of M. dams.
R. D. No. 4.

THE STANLEY J. GARDNER HERD

“MILKING SHORTHORNS"

Croswell, Mich.

Offer a show bull 9 mos, dark red. Sired by Imper—
ator. Weight 2.800 lbs. His 4 nearest dams avg.
10,000 lbs. milk per yr. Also Fillpail “lydfi, 8. gr.
son of Graybird. record 11,886 lbs. milk, 555 lbs.
B. F. Sired by a son of Lady Peer 3rd. record
14,216 lbs. milk.

WILDWOOD FARM

 

offers two young Rosamond heifers, one red with
calf by side: one roan to freshen soon. At beef
prices. Beland 1. Roland. Tecumseh. Mich.

 

HOLSTHN 0f GUERNSEY $20 each. rrated for ship-

Shol-thorns The great Beef and Milk breed,

 

ment. .Edlowood Dairy Farms. Whitewater. Wis.

_ Buy now. Write Secretary. Mich-
igan Shorthorn Breeden' Au’n, East Lansing, Mich.

JERSEY BuLLs

 

 

 

Rodney’s Model in oer—
\lce. Bulls for solo. W.
Mich.

SHORTHORIS 0F MERIT

E. MORRIS“. R. 5. Flint.

 

BENMYHOM FARM offers milking Shorthom Bull
(valves from heavy milking, easy fieshing Stork. Write
for particulars. IDS. MORIARTY. Hudson. Midl-

HOGS

Lakefield Farm Durocs

We ofl'or fall boars and open gilts. A choice son of
Super Colonel. Bred sows for summer and fall furrow.

Lakeiield Farm, - Clarkston, Mich.
Large Type Chester While

March pigs, either sex, $15. Papers furnished. A.
C. MacDONALD. Fremont, Mich.

Registered 0. l. C. Sows Soon, 0......

Glltl. yearling: and 2—yoor~old. Also hours of all
ages. All stock on approval. Register free.
W. KENNEDY. R. 2. Plymouth. Mloh.

0 I C I} fine fall boars and 1
i ' ' yearling boar. CLOVER
STOCK FARM, Monroe. Mich.

 

 

 

 

some due to

 

 

0 I (‘.‘S. 4 good last full boars and this spring
. pigs, from very good strongy stock. 1/; mile west

 

pf depot. OTTO SCHULZE, Nashville, Mich.

' either sex. by the great Boar. The
lFa“ Plgs Wolverine. Priced reasonable. Best
of dams. W. E. Livingston. Parma. Mich.

 

Fall plus of either
sex (or sale. A. A.

Large Typo Poland Chinas

FELDKAMP. Manoholtor. Mich.

 

 

F ll b ‘ . A II t
POLAND CH‘NA inhividllgll (pig splenrdidncbei'eeadl‘
ing. WESLEY HILE. Ionia, Mich.
HORSES

 

FARMERS ATTENTION!

We have some extra good Percheron and Belgian
Stallions of size and quality. International a: State
Fair prim- winners. If your locality is in need of a
good Stallion. you can easily sci-urn one on our
breeding association—service fee plan. FRED G.
STEVENS Co.. Breckenridge. Mich.

FRANCISCO FARM BELGIANS

We now offer the 2-yr.~old registered bay. Belgian
Stallion. “Invinrible Don." A remarkable indlvulual.
weight. 1,1:50 lbs. at 21 months. P. P. POPE. Mt.

Pleasant. Mich.. R. 3.
d Re ‘. -
F 0 R S A L E aggo‘lgell'gh‘cron agil-

lion. G. D. ROWE. Evart, Mich.

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' I’ ole Largo boned. 4
Registered Jack yghrssold. ARTHUR SAM<
PLE. Three Riven. Mich.

 

 


 

 
 

  

 

—- *- GRAIN QUOTATIONS

‘Tuesday, April 28.

Detroit—No. 1 red $1.81; No. 2 red
1.33; No. 2 white $1.78; No. 2 mixed

Chicago—May at $1.49%@1.49%;

July 31.40%, @14055; September
31.33%. .
Toledo.——Whea.t $1.82@1.83.
Corn.

Detroit—No. 3 yellow $1.13; No. 4
yellow $1.08.
Chicago—May $1.06%@1.06%,; July

at $1.0934@1.097/3; September 31.08% ‘
@109.

Oats.
Detroit—No. 2 white at 52c; No. 3
460.
Chicago—May at 40%c; July 42140;
September 4278c.
Rye.
Detroit—No. 2, $1.12.
Chicago—May $1.08; July $1.05%@
1.06; September 99140.
Toledo—$1.11.
Beans.
Detroit—Immediate and prompt
shipment $5.15@5.25 per cwt.
Chicago—Navy, choice $6.25; red
kidneys $10@10.50.

New York—Choice pea at $5.75@6;
red kidneys $9.50@10.

Barley.
Detroit—Making 95c; feeding 89c.
Buckwheat.
Detroit.—$1.90@1.95.

Seeds.

Detroit—Prime red clover cash at
$16.40; August alsike $12.65; timothy
at $3.

Hay.

Detroit—No. 1 timothy $16.50@17;
standard $16@16.50; light clover mix-
ed $16@16.50; No. 2 timothy $14.50@
15.50; No. 1 clover and No. 1 clover
-mixed $13@14; wheat and eat straw
$10@10.50; rye straw $11.50@12.

Feeds.

Detroit—Bran at $33@35; standard
middlings at $34; fine middlings $39;
cracked corn $55; coarse cornmeal a
$41; chop $35.

Apples.

Chicago prices on apples: Northern
Spies $9@10 bbl; Baldwins $6.50@7;
Jonathans at $9.50 bbl; Kings at

$7.50@8; Greenings $7.50@8; Wagen-
ers $5.25@5,50 bbl; Grimes at $5.50@
5.75; Starks $6.50@7; Ben DaVis at

$5.50@6.
WHEAT

Wheat prices have been erratic in
the past week but finished with fair
net gains. Bullish crop reports, in—
creased export business and revival of
speculative buying caused a sharp ral-
ly after an early break. Showery
weather, smaller export sales and re-
ports of a slow demand for flour caus-
ed a sharp setback toward the close
of the week. The tone of crop reports
is better and rains during the last
week should bring further betterment.
The winter wheat crop for the coun-
try as a whole is still in low condition,
however, and, with a large acreage
abandonment, the May 1 crop forecast
is likely to be but little better than a
month previous. Spring wheat seed-
ing is practically completed and rains
have been sufficient to give it a. fine
start. Flour trade is reported slow,
and the amount of wheat being ground
by mills is running 10 to 15 per cent
under last year. This is reducmg the
domestic requirements, but.it _means
depletion of stocks in the distributing
channels and may be followed by good

buying later.
RYE ~

The visible supply of rye decreased
sharply last week in spite of the fairly
liberal primary receipts. It has de-
clined 25 per cent in five weeks. Large
exports are taking place at last. Clear-
ances in the last two weeks. were 3,-
700,000 bushels and the daily. ship—
ments are still running large, With ad-
ditional sales reported right along.

CORN

Corn prices have made slight gains
in the last week. Demand has .im-
proved on the lower level of prices
prevailing recently. While buying
tends to slow down on advances, corn
is passing into consumption rapidly as
shown by reductions in the vis1ble sup-
ply, which are much larger than usual
at this time of the year. These large
reductions are partly due, ‘of course,
to the small primary receipts which
are about a third below the average
for this season.

The small movement .

from the country is traceable to lim-
ited farm stocks, the busy season and
unwillingness to sell.at the decline in
prices compared with six or eight

weeks ago
OATS

The oats market has, been quite
steady during the last week. Small
primary receipts, large shipments,
good-sized decreases in the visible and
consistent cash demand with some
sales for export have sufficed to offset
the effect of large stocks in commerh‘

cial channels.
- SEEDS

The clover seed season is practical-
ly over and stocks are at the lowest
point in years. Demand has absorbed
not only high grade but ordinary qual-
ities as well, and some seeding is re-
ported as being left over for the fall
planting. With an early demand for
the new seed crop promised, prices
will probably be high. Timothy prices
hold steady with light offerings and
good demand. Stocks of timothy seed
both in the country and in distributing
markets are light.

FEEDS

The feed situation has improved
during the past week, due chiefly to
reduced offerings, especially of wheat
feeds. Prices have advanced consider-
ably over the low point a few weeks
age although demand is light with the
dealers disposed to continue their
“hand-to-mouth” trading policies.

HAY

.Top grades of hay were generally
higher last week as offerings contin-
ued very light. Inferior grades were
moved only at unsatisfactory prices.
Hay consumption in the country has
been reduced by the early pasturage
available. The season is ten days ear-
lier than usual and pastures generally
have made good progress. Recent
rains have helped conditions in south-
western grazing districts where pas-
tures were suffering from drouth.

POULTRY AND EGGS

Egg prices have continued firm in
the face of liberal receipts and large
accumulations of storage stock. The
peak of production is at hand and a

uicker-let-up in receipts is probable

an last year when the peak of re»
ceipts showed no material decline
throughout the month. Country costs~
on closely graded stock have been well
sustained, which has been one factor
in the strength in distributing mar-
kets. Holdings of storage eggs are
rapidly mounting and are nearly twice
as large as at the corresponding time
a year ago. The range in values ac-
cording to grade has been very narrow
but will gradually widen out as eggs
begin to show the effects of warmer
weather.

Chicago—Eggs, miscellaneous 26%0
per dozen; dirties 251;“; checks at
2555c; fresh firsts 27%@27%c; ordi-
nary firsté'26c. Live poultry, hens at
28c; broilers 55@58c; roosters at
15%c; ducks 300; geese 16c; turkeys
at 28c. "

Detroit—Eggs, fresh candied and
graded 27%@28%c. Live poultry,
broilers 65@680; heavy hens 32c; light
hens 27@28c; roosters 18c; geese 18c;
ducks 32c; tuereys 35c.

ER

Butter prices have steadily followed
an upward trend during the past week
with a net gain of~more than two cents
a pound. Receipts at the four leading
markets have not come up to‘expecta-
tions and it is probable that the make
will not show any considerable in-
crease before May. Consumption is
good and with practically all the fine
storage butter gone, the trade is al-
most entirely on a fresh butter basis.
Withdrawals of storage butter since
the first of April have been heavy and
it is probable that little, if any, sur-
plus over a year ago remains. The
nearness of the new season makes
dealers anxious to keep stocks well
cleared and reluctant to buy very far
ahead, and some reduction in price is
to be expected as production shows
the usual spring increase.

Prices on 92-score creamery were:
Chicago 44c; New York 460. In De-
troit fresh creamery in tubs sells for
42@45c a pound.

POTATOES

Potato markets were generally low-
er last week. Sharp increases in ship-
ments of old potatoes from Minnesota
and Wisconsin were offset by decreas-

Tuesday, April 28.

CHICAGO

Hogs.

Receipts 23,000. Market very slow,
steady to 10c lower; packers doing lit-
tle; bulk better grades, 160 to 220 lb.
average, $11.75@11.90; early tops,
$12.00; 250 to 340 lb. butchers, $11.70
@1185; 140 to 150 weight, mostly
$11.40(&>11.75; bulk packing sows,
$10.35@10.60; strong weight slaughter
pigs, $11.00@11.35.

Cattle.
Receipts 16,000; bidding uneven,

particularly lower on fed steers, most-
ly 25c to 50c off; practically nothing
down at decline; few sales $9.00@
9.50; bulls 250 to 350 lower; in be-
tween grades dominating; liberal
shrinking good to choice heavies; she
stock lower; vealers higher; shippers
$10.00@11.50 for choice vealers; others
$8.50@9.00.

Sheep.

Receipts 13,000. Fat lambs opening
mostly 25c to 35c higher; choice handy
weights, $13.75@15.85; weighty kind,
$14.00@14.50; good weight natives, 150
to 2.50 lower; no clippers sold; no
springers sold; fat sheep and shearing
25c and more higher; 96 lb. clipped
weathers, $9.00@10.00.

DETROIT

‘ Cattle.

Receipts 264. Market is very slow
on heavy steers, steady on all others.
Good to choice yearlings,

dry fed ............... $ 9.50@11.00

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 9.00((D 9.75
Handyweight butchers . . 8.00@ 9.25
Mixed steers and heifers 7.50@ 8.25
Handy light butchers . . . . 6.50@ 7.50
Light butchers . . . . . . . . . . 5.25@ 6.50
Best cows 5.50@ 7.00
Butcher cows . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50@ 5.25
Cutters canoe-eneeeeeeeen 3e00@ 3.50
Canners ................ 2.50@ 2.75
Choice bulls ............. 5.00 61.50
Heavy bologna bulls .. .. . 4.25 5.25
Stock bulls O O I O I O I; I O O O I 4.00 5.09
Feeders ................. 6.5061), 7.70
Stockers ‘IICOIOCOIOIIOODO 5'50@ 7.25

Milkers .......... . . . . . . .$45.00@75.00
, Veal Calves.

Receipts 324. Market is steady.
Best ..................... $12.00@12,50
Others ........ . . . . . . . . . 5.00@11.50

. Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 364. Market steady.

Best lambs . . . . . . . . .$12;50@12.75

Fair lambs ...... . . . . . . . . 11.25@12.00
Light to common . . . . . . . . 7.00@10.00
Clipped ....... . . . . . . . . . . 13.00
Yearlings ......... . . . . . . 13.00@ 13.50
Fair to good sheep ...... 6.00@ 7.00
Culls and common ...... 3..00@5.00
Buck lambs ............. 13.00@13.25
Hogs.

Receipts 2,113. Market slow.

Mixed hogs, heavy y’rkrs.$ 12.10
Pigs .................... 12.00@12.10
Little yorkers ........... 13.25
Yorkers ................. 12.10@12.25
Roughs .................. 10.40
Stags .................... 7.00@ 7.50

BUFFALO

Hogs.

Receipts 2,400. The market slower,
steady; few $12.55. Grade 160 pounds
up $13.10; 1 load at $13.15; heavy sold
at $14,10@14.25; medium $14.35; light
at $13.50@14.25; light lights $12.50@

12.60; pigs $13; packing sows and
roughs $10.75@11.00.
Cattle.

Receipts 2,300. Market is steady.
Steers from 1,100 lbs. up at $8.50
@1075; steers 1,110 lbs. down at
$6@10; load of bulk yearlings up to

$11; heifers $6@9; cows $2@7; bulls

4@6.25; butchers steady.
Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 1,300. Tops $14.50; culls
$13 down; best clipped lambs at $13@
13.25; yearlings at $13.50@14; clipped
$6@7; clipped lambs at $13.50@13.60;
aged wethers $7.50@8; clipped ewes
§3@7; best clipped yearlings at $962

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es in other states so that the '~..
movement. was smaller - than in the
preceding week. New potatoes are an-
riving in larger quantities and, prices
are about 50 per cent below the open-
ing quotations. Northern round whites
U. S. No. 1, are quoted at,,~75@900 per
100 pounds in the Chicago carlot mar-
ket. Eastern'mund whites are held
at $1@1.15 per 100 pounds.

BEANS

The bean market continues week with‘
prices lower than a week ago. .The
normal market quoted~ by elevators is
$5.35@5.40 per 100 1&ounds for C. H. P.
whites, f. o. b. ichigan/shipping
points, but few sales are being made
at that figure, and it is rumored that
distress cars. might be had as low as
$5.25. Fancy screened are quoted at
$5.10@5.I5. Demand has been quite
limited for the last 60 days and, with
the advent of warm weather, whole-
sale grocery buying may be rather nar-
row until wheat harvest starts. Can-~
ners also have bought but few beans
as canned goods have been movmg

slowly.
WOOL

The wool market shows but little
change. Some of the stronger holders
are asking prices materially above the
quoted market which is still nominal
or else based on sales of distress
wools. Mills are taking wools to fill
out lines orcoccasionally buying as a
speculation, but others are delaying
purchases until they are more positive
that the market is on the bottom. Scat-
tered buying of wool in the middle
west is reported at a range of 40 to 45
cents, but the trading basis is not well
established. Foreign markets are de-
cidedly weak with financial pressure
causing forced sales. It spite of the
recent increase in imports and the ap-
proaching movement of the new clip,
the situation in this country is still a
strong one as the supply in sight is far.
below total needs.

HORSES

The farm chunk season is rapidly
passing and buylgrs are becoming hard-
er to satisfy. orses weighing up to
1,550 pounds are selling up to $160
at Chicago, but light kinds, not eligible
to more than $100, are extremely hard
to move, and there will be a. narrow
market for them from this time on.
Drafters weighing 1,700 pounds and
upward are bringing $200 to $275.
Choice wagon horses are readily sal-
able, also, at $140'to $175.

DETROIT CITY MARKET

Offerings of produce were quite
large and buying was moderately
heavy. Heavier offerings of outdoor
rhubarb lowered the price of forced
stock and slowed up the sale of both.
There was a good demand for spinach,
but sorrel and dandelions were light
sellers. Most root crops were sold
slowly. Potato prices were a little
higher, but sales not heavy. Eggs in
fair demand.

Apples $1.25@4 per bu; beets, round,
40@60c bu; cabbage 40@60c bu; red
60@75c bu; carrots 50@65c bu; dry
onions, No. 1, $1.75@2 bu; green on-
ions 40@5OC dozen bunches; white
Portugal onions $8@10 bu; parsnips-
60@75c bu; potatoes, No. 1, 60@700
bu; rhubarb, outdoor 75@85c dozen
large bunches; turnips 50@750 bu;
butter 50@600; dandelions 500@$1 a
bu; asparagus $1.50@2 dozen bunches;
pansies $1.50@2 per 15-box flat; sorrel
$1.50@2.50 bu; tomato plants $1.25 per
100; cabbage plants $1.25 per 100;
eggs, wholesale 30@31c; retail 33@40c
per dozen; hens, wholesale 30@32c;
retail 35@360; Leghorn hens, whole—
sale 250; broilers, Wholesale 64c; veal
17@18c; dressed poultry 38@40c lb;
springers 40@45c, broilers 7'0@75c lb.

GRAND RAPIDS

Warm weather and showers during
the past week increased offerings of
farm produce in Grand Rapids this
week. Asparagus $1.75@2 per dozen
bunches; spinach $1.50 bu; rhubarb
75@90c bu; leaf lettuce $5@6 lb; rad-
ishes 60@750 dozen bunches; green
toes 40@500 bu; parsnips 50@600 bu;
onions 10@18c dozen bunches; pota-
beans $4.75 cwt; wheat $1.65 per bu;
broilers 50c fowls 25@300; eggs 24@
25c; butter-fat 470 lb; veal 12@14c
lb; pork 16@17c; beef 12@14c.

COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.

 

Holsteins. , ~

Calves. ' .
Receipts 2,400. Tops at $12.50; culls ,IMay 5—6—Wabeek Farms, Harry Math-

er, Men, Pontiac, Mich.

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Wm 1'." United
. Stimson January 1.192 , accord-
ing to a‘ bulletinliss'ued by the United.
States» Department of Agriculture.

Of the total road mileage, 387,780
miles havebeen improved with some
form of surfacing, such as sand-clay,
gravel, macadam» or pavement. _

The total road mileage 1s sufllment
to, encircle the earth at the equator
118 times, while the surfaced mileage
is sufficient to make a gridiron over
the United States of seventy-five east
and west routes running from ocean
to ocean and seventy-five north and

south highways.

  
  

 

April 24.—-Condition of

g . Wheat and rye have
fairly well. Good growth of
pasture during the past week, Very
little planting has been done up to
date. Very little marketing at present;
as prices are low. The general out-
look for local farming is excellent.
Land has been in splendid condition
for oat seeding and there has been a
large acreage planted—A. W. C.

Huron Co.,
fruit is
wintered

 

POTATAO GROWERS IN MICHIGAN
EVOLVE NEW POOLING PLAN.
M Association at Falmouth, Mich,

have evolved a plan for the or-
derly marketing of their potatoes
through the medium of a single season
pool. The pool period begins with
December 1 and closes with June 30
of the following year. At the beginning
of the pool period, a careful estimate
is made of the total quantity of pota-
toes to be marketed and then one-
seventh of this quantity is shipped
every month regardless of: the weather
conditions, market conditions, or price.
As a car is sold, the returns are placed
in the bank and at the end of the
month, settlement is made with each
member on the basis of one-seventh
of the potatoes he has listed with the
association. At the end of the seventh
month, such adjustments are made as
are necessary because of minor over
or under estimates.

The claims made for this method of
marketing and pooling are: (1) Every
member receives the average season
price for his potatoes; (2) the grower
gets some money every month; (3)
overhead expense is reduced as the
work to be done in loading and ship-
ping is the same for every week in
the pool season and wastes occurring
because of rush and slack periods are
avoided; (4) the grower is relieved of
worry regarding the ups-and-downs of
the market as he is sure of the aver-
age price for the season. He just hauls
his potatoes to the warehouse as con-

 

EMBERS of the Potato Growers’

 
  

   
 
   

   

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, ,t . _ elation“ meets one “month
at which timethe manager 0 the or-
ganization submits a written report
giving. a detailed. statement of the af-

  
 

     

fairs of the local, noting“ all financial

importance and all

transactions of
financial. status of the

changes in the
organization.

NEW BULLETINS.

Pruning Black Raspberries.-—If black
raspberries bore fruit in actual propor-
tion to total buds produced, each bush
would hear, assuming 500 berries to
the pound, a total of thirty-five to fifty-
two pounds. Actually, a large propor-
tion of the flowers do not set on ac-
count of cramped conditions, and a
large number of those which do set
are so small that it takes more than
500 to make a pound. For this reason.
pruning is resorted to, not to incerase
the yield, but to produce larger and
firmer berries. In this bulletin, No.
40 of the extension series of the Mich-
igan Agricultural College, the reasons
and correct methods of pruning are
set forth, and conclusions reached at
the South Haven Experiment Station,
are given.

Orchard Grafting—The time of
grafting is immaterial as long as. it
occurs some time between the passmg
of the snows and not later than blos—
som time, but the cions must dor-
mant. Trees endangered by loss of
bark caused by rabbits or rodents may
yet be saved by bridge gratfing but
they must be left no longer. Bulletin
No. 39, of the extension series, gives
complete but concise instructions in
bridge grafting and cleft grafting, cov-
ering in detail a part of the material
presented in Bulletin No. 143.

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Soc-1m Bank Building (directly across street
from Patent Office) Washington. D. C.

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FARM DITCH (DIGGER-v-Build your .own. For par-I

tloulars write G.’ Aldw. 225 E. Tenth Street.
Erie. Pennsylvania.

 

WILL BUY old gun catalogs. L. 1). Satterlee. 458

Forest Avenue West. Detroit. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—new silo 12x30. $75. Owner. Arthur
Lindermsn. Inkstcr. Mich.

 

TOBACCO

HOMESI’UN TOBACCO~Chcwing. 5 lbs.. $1.50: 10.
$2.50. Smoking. 5. $1.25: 10. $2. Mild. 10. $1.50.
Pay when receiied. F. Gupton. Bardwell, Ky.

 

HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing. five pounds. 81.50
ten. 52.50; smoking. five 3. 81.25; ten. $2.00
pips free. pay when received. satisfaction guaranteed.
Co-operativo Tobacco Growers. Muons Mill. Kentucky.

EOMESPUN TOBACCO. Chewing 5 lbs. $1.50z’Ten
83.50. Smoking. 5 lbs.. $1.85: Ton. 82.00. Psy when
"out”. 'fi‘; pipe and recipe free. Pumas Union. Padu«

 

HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing, five pounds. 31.50;

ten. $2.50. Smoking. five pounds, 81.25: ten, 82.00.
Pipe free. Pay when received. Satisfaction guar—
anteed. Kentucky Farmer's Association. Paducah. Ky.

 

 

ssso‘s AND NURSERY sro'éx

FROST PROOF Cabbage Plants and Tomato Plants.
Varieties: Early Jersey and Charleston Wakefield.
Combat!) Market. Flat Dutch and Succession. To-
mato: Greater Baltimore. Esrllun and Livingston
Globe. Prices. Parcel Post Paid. 500. 81.50; 1.000.

32.50. Express collect. 81.25. 1.000. We ship the
size of plant you wish. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Tifmn Potato Company. Inc. Tifton. Ga.

 

Fine

VEGETABLE PLANTS. 10 different varieties. 100
. 0.

field grown cabbage. 300. $1.00: 500. $1.50:

was. mm ,
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com sans—imam cute. was:
only. Bibcock a. son. can -.

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manna—mama '1‘ ion Ge . 4.’

10. d Southworth. leul. Billeufselifiglgia 8 75 W

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now 300me ORDERS for Bourbon Red tut-m
eggs for hatching. J. J. Chapman. Northville. Mich.

ANCONA PULLETS—200 Selected Layers. 81.35. H.
Knoll. Jr.. R. 1. Holland, Mich.

EGGS from Binglet Barred Rocks $5.00
per setting. Robert Martin. Woodland.

WHITE CRESTED Blk. Polish Hatching Eggs. $3.00
per 15. Sunnyside Farm. Bridgman. Mich

 

 

DO! 100r 01.00
Mich.

BABY CHICKS

 

ENG. W. LEGHORN CHICKS—Now booking orders
for June deliiery of our Pad. Sired chicks. We hatch
from our own home flock. Satisfaction. 100% live
arrival. guaranteed ; postpaid. Our prices are lowest:
$0.50 for 100; $45 for 500; $85 for 1000; order at
once. circular free. Model Poultry Farm. R. 4. Zoe-
Ihnd. Mich.

ENGLISH WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS. Vigorous.
Northern red. Persistent winter layers. Selected.
100. 813: 300. $38.25; 500. $62.50: Star A. 100. $15:
300, $44.25. 500, $72.50. Postpaid. Live arrival.
Catalog. Save time. order from this ad. Highland
Poultry Farm. R. 9. Box C. Holland. Mich.

 

BABY CHICKS—Silver L. and White Wymdottn.
Barred Rocks. R. I. Reds. Anconas. White and Brown
Leghorn: from culled and strong laying strains. Bold
from day-old to eight weeks old. Fifteenth your.
Write Shepard Poultry Farm. Litchdeld. Mich.

 

BBED-TO-LAY Barred Rock and Hanson's White
Leghorn Chicks. Blood Tested two years. Highest
Rook hen Michigan and Missouri contests 1923-24.
Circular free. 1827 Belden. Aseltine Poultry Farm.
Grand Rapids. Mich.

 

CHICKS OF QUALITY that will bring you a profit,
hatched from thoroughly culled flocks. Our quality
will please you. Our price will surprise you. Our
service will satisfy you. Send for catalogue and

 

$2.50: 10.000. $20. Prepaid. Tomato plants. 300.
$1.25; 500, $1.75; 1.000. $2.75. 10.000. 3.25. Pro-
paid. By rxp'ress. cabbage or tomatoes. $1.50 per
1,000. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.
Ideal Plant Co., Franklin. Va.

SEED CORN—Hackberry's Yellow Dent. 1924 Crop.
Michigan Grown. 97% to 98% germination. Grown
on sand alfalfa sod. ripe cut and shocked six weeks
before frosts. flushed. sorted. dried and shelled by
hand. Price $5.00 per bu. 50 lbs. shelled corn and
worth the price. H. J. Holbrook. Hubbardston, Mich.

CANADIAN VARIEGATED ALFALFA—15% Grimm.
Taken from fields that have produced alfalfa. continu-
ously for 20 years. Very hardy as it thriies in ex-
trcme cold weather. :24 per bushel. sack included.
Purity test. 99.78 pure seed. R. E. Barron. Howell.
Michigan.

FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS. ready
varieties: 300. 85c; 500. $1.50: 1,000. $2.25. Insured.
Parcel Post Paid. 10.000 collect. $17.50. Tomato.
pepper. May delivery. Buy your plants from old ol-
tsblished growers. Satisfaction guaranteed. J. T.
Councill 5. Sons. Franklin. Va.

standard

FROSTPROOF CABBAGE PI.ANTS—~--Leading varie-
ties. Earliana and Baltimore tomato plants. Open
field grown. 500. 750: 1000. $1.25: 5000. $5.00. F.
O. Prompt shipment. Safe arrival guaranteed.
Our plants mature earlier crops. Reinhardt Plant
Co., Ashburn, Georgia.

paying crop grown. Washington,

ASPARAGUS——bost
largest. best varieties. Choice roots
J.

Mary Washington.

 

 

for sale cheap. Circulars free. C. Dunham.
Lawton. Mich.

SEED CORN—Murdock Yellow Dent. 1923 crop. high
germination. Three Dollars per bitshrl. lrnng O.
Leary, ("oloma. Mich.

ICED BEANS—Michigan thitc Northern, yield 35

per acre. Also Red Kidney Beans. Both guaran-

in.
seed. Henry Foley. Mt. Pleasant. Mich. it. 5.

teed

 

 

 

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SPECIAL SALE. Standard 368 Hives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 from. wood covers $10.35: 10 frame. metal cov

DEPT. M. F. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

A. G. WOODMAN C0.,

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One Story. her neck of five hives.

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8 frame. wood covers $9.50:
price list of all bee supplies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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an; $12.75. Send for special

 

SEED BEANS—improved lto‘oust Certified. hand—
picked. at farm. Further particulars on rvqutst. A

B. M it‘ll.

MIXED DAIILIA ROOTS—12 different varieties for
$1.50. post. paid. Slinnysido Farm, Bridgman, Mich.

Cook. Owosso.

 

 

prices. Summit Hatchery. Byron Center. Mich.

 

BABY CHICKS from docks blood-tested for Baclilnry

White Diarrhea. All flocks tested—second test on
Books and Beds. All popular varieties. Ask for
Catalogue. Pierce Hatchery. Jerome. Michigan.

 

SUPERIOR CHICKS—9c up. 12 varieties. Heavy
layers. Delivery guaranteed. Postpaid. Bank refs--
ences. Catalogue Free. Superior Hatchery. Box 856.
Windsor. Mo.

BABY CHICKS—Barred Rocks. Rhoda Island Beds.
814 per 100; $65 per 500. Four extra chicks per 100.
100% live delivery. Free circular or order direct.
Goret's Poultry Farm. Corunna, Mich.

SATISFIED CHICKS—Hollywood. Tancred strain. S.
C. White Leghorns. Brown Leghorns. Anconas. Bar
Rocks. 8 cents and up. Ship two times a Week.
Circular free. Queen Hatchery. Zeeland. Mich.

BABY CHICKS at living prices. Fourteen popular
varieties. High egg production and standard qualities
combined. Michigan State Fair Winners. Write
for prices. Litchfleld Hatchery, Litchfield, Mich.

 

 

S. C. BUFF LEGHORN CHICKS from selected sunk
on free range, only one breed. Prices reasonable.
Circular free. Willard Webster. Bath. Mich.

 

BABY CHICKS. Superior Ringlet Barred Rocks. 12c;
Ross Comb Reds. 12c; White Leghorns. 9c. Wynd<
ham’s Ideal Hatchery. Tidln. Ohio.

RICHARDSON’S ROCKY RIDGE pure Parks strain
Barred Rock Baby Chicks. 816 per 100. Hanover. Midi.

 

READ Shady Lawn Poultry Farm Ad on Page 609.

 

TURKEYS

TURKEY EGGSrz-Mammoth Bronze. Bourbon Bod.
Narragansett and White Holland. You should place
your order early. Write Walter Bros” Powhatan
Point. Ohio.

 

AGENTS WANTED

ANYBODY (‘AN SELL 'l‘lllSfiSpare or whole time.
Men and women gladly pay a $10 bill for complete
year's protection under our $5.000 Accident and Birk~

 

 

GENUINE improved Robust. semi beans, 1". DfiWiIt ncss Policy paying $25 weekly benefit. Big Opportu-
‘ Son. Wheeler. Mich. nity; Big Commissions: Big Company: Salary and

Bonus. Address Great Lakes Commonwealth (‘orpor—
CERTIFIED Petoskcy Sccd Potatoes. $1 per bu. ntion. Michigan Agent-y till-315 General Necessities
C. P. Reed. Howell. Mich. Bldg. Detroit. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—Registered and Certified Worthy seed
oats. Write Paul C. Clement. Britten. Michigan.

 

 

tiling miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange.

Bates I cents a word. each insertion.
consecutive insertions 6 cents a word. Count as
display type or illustrations admitted.
Real estate and live stock advertising
.Mlnlmum charge. Io words.

 

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

1111s chained advertising department is established for the con
Small advertisements bring best results under claseifled headings.

at classified rain. or in display columns at commercial rates.
on orders for less

Remittances must accompany order. _
have separate departments and are not accepted as classified.

   
 

venienrc of Michisnn farmers.
Try it for want ads and for adver-
Poultry advertising will be run in this department
than four insertions; for four or more

a word each abbreviation. initial or number. he

 

 

Four
10. . . 2.40 26 ........ $2.08
11. . . 2.64 27 ........ .
12. . . . 2.88 28 ........ .2
13 ........ 1.04 3.12 29 ........ 2.32
14 ........ 1.12 3.36 30 ........ .
1 ........ 1.20 3.60 ‘ 31 ........
16 ........ 1.28 3.84 32 ........
17 ....... . 1.36 4.08 33 ........
18 ........ 1.“ 4.32 34 ........
19 ....... . 1.52 4.56 35. .
20 ...... . . 1.60 4.80 36. .
21 ........ 1.68 5.04 37. .
22 ........ 1.76 5.28 38. .
2 ........ 1.84 5.52 39. .
24 ........ 1.92 5.76 40. .
25 ........ 2.00 6.00 41 ........

 

dilunllnuanu order:
ar thong: of up} fn~
tended far the Clanified Departing”: mun not}: thil ofiflifll
day; in advance cfpublica tion data.

Special Notice

 

REAL ESTATE

CALIFORNIA FARMEBI make more money on mail

Lake With 3 Horses, Poultry. 3
Cows. gas engine. cream separator. grain binder. in-
cubator. machinery. vchiolus included: you should
prosper and find happiness hero; on crawled road.
mnwnicnt 3 good towns; 35 acres level black loam.
woven—wire fences. flowing well and spring water,
woodlot, variety choice fruit. and berries; G-moxn
house, f'mo collar, beautiful views. cmncnt basement
burn, granary, poultry house. For quick sale only
$3.950. part cash. W. R. Jones. Balcony Block.
Holly, Mit'lx.

50 A(‘ RES (‘loso

 

Bil-ACRE SO. MICHIGAN FARM—Horses. 5 Cows.
Machinery. hay, fodder, included; good buy and mm
soil, rich muck for celery, onions. and truck: wirc
fem-es, spring-watered pasture for 25 lived, choice ap<
pies, pears, plums, cherries, nt‘arhvs: season's income
$2,500; good 7-room house with stately sluuic and
charming View, new hip roof, basement barn. etc. in—
sured $4.500. Close motor bus, city markets. Owner
sacrifices for quick sale at $5.300. only $1,200 needed.
Details pg. 147 new 190 pg. Catalog farm bargains
throughout 24 States. Free. Strout Farm Agency.
ZOE-BC Kresge Bldg” Detroit, Mich.

80-ACRE FARM FOR SALE—N0 debt. Splendid soil:

 

 

SEND FOR $1.00 collection of Gladiola. Glendale

Gladiola Farms. Allen. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

and White Si'ilii‘II (‘ol—

FOIL SALl'l—Extrn. lino Sable
and intelligence. F.

liu puppies. Blvd for beauty
A. Grown. Mllllugton, Mich.

POULTRY

strain foundation stock.
50 I 510 per
Ii irby, It. ,

BARIIED ROCKSd-Parks
Hatching eggs $2.00 per 15; $5.00 per
100. Prepaid by parcel post. R. G.
East Lynsing. Mich.

Golden ling" Strain Mam-

GICICSE ICGGS'fliat hatch!
uarauteed. Semi for

moth Toulouse with fertility g
Middlm lilo.

 

circular. Hawthorne Hill Farm. it. 2.

Mich.

\VIII’I‘E PLYMOUTH ROCK hatching eggs from Wil
Imrtba Farm’s best production strain. t‘hwks lIl

Earl l’clton. Midland,

small lots. Reasonable prices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

farms in San Joaquin Valley. California. what you fair buildings. near pavement: shock & tools included. Mich.
can work outdoors all the year. ~Splendid opportuni- 56.500. 9. L. Bigford. Box 46. Flinthit-h.
0- int men of modes-sis means. Twenty and forty suowy \‘i'Hl'l‘E lt0(‘rKS. high quality. Egg. pre<
and {m mqu. "flyqaplgfiyfi;os 100 ACRES for sale near Jackson. 13. 'C. Drake, gig-1110315321 nhfiiiegaghioso; 57-00- 100- M”- 11“”
fruits yield dependsble profits: combination of these Whit/e Cloud- MiCh- ' ' -
means ‘ wm'bu‘nc‘” mm Vim m”. ”m“ pumamuup Mammoth White l‘ukin om»). Eggs, at
mrgwua‘ the mash Winterless 3:1 13:111.: fillers WANTEDMIO mgr Komfiowiier (filial-g orvgnimprovcd $1.50 per dozen. postpaid. Crawford's, Davisburg,
mu s man ng 01' ‘ coun 9" can land for sale. . '. aw ey. n. is. ‘. . _
getwglm most out ofndlife. ds delightful, 1m Mull
gro porn: 3 “has; we too : an L - BIG TYPE Toulouse geese eggs. 50¢: each. Buff Rock
538... ‘33? 5‘1 prgiiizce‘ A small :éfi'lmup'ymrfi‘? MISCELLANEOUS gags. $131.33 15. Budwm a Nowun. a. 4. Luna-
cutting «It high labor inane: success. 0 < . . “F8: 10 -
oer handicaps. San Joaquin Vancy‘illustrsted {m RICH MAN'S Com Ila-rests. poor mans price— . .

‘ . t. F tv HATCHING EGGS. White Rocks. Buff Ormmrtons.
mailed free on request. L Seagraves. General only $25.09 wm‘h bundl‘: tmymg watchmen rec ca Winners of egg laying contest. Semi for circular.

C. .
Colonization Agent. aunts Fe Ry.. 912 Railway Ex~
change. Chicago. Ill.

slog showing pi Box 528, Saline.

Kane.

 

 

 

 

 

Walnut. Hill Farm. Milford. Mich.

EARLY CABBAGE PLANTS 'l‘liousand,' $1.75 pmt— ;
paid. Dahliadale Farm. Oi‘t‘iln View. Virginia.

HAY
GET FULL market value for your hay. Ship to
Albert Miller & Co., 192 No. Clark St. Chicago, Ill.
Market reports furnished free.

PET STOCK

SCOTCH (‘OLLII‘I I’UI’I’Il‘ISriNniuraI Iwcicl‘s from
farm trained stock. ton tiny salts. males or spayed
females two months old, fully guaranteed. for $15.
Semi rim-k in first letter. \Voivrrinc (‘ollio Farms
(Registered), 1). W. Austin liwulf. Mt. (‘lrnwnsu Mich.

NOT i‘ll.l'}("l‘lili‘——“'anted mun for all parts of Mich—
igan to soil farmers and town pcoplc. Thousands of
satisfied customers in Detroit. Ono sale a day means
$54.00 a Wi‘ok. ()ur Automatic Iinll‘bwring Cleaner
heals them all. Mai-hints sells on its merit. Answer
.at once. Vital Mfg. (‘o.. 1427 Washington Blvd..
Detroit. Mich.

 

lADDITIONAL SALIISMEN WANTED for unmcupied
territories. Our proposition is an unusual opportunity
for high grade mm, offering greater earning power and

steady work. Must have var. Ii‘uil information on
request. Allnm'apolis Woolen Mills Co., Inc... 612
First Ave. North. Minneapolis. Minn.

 

.Ii‘lilclo) TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. Get three good re-

fspon'lblo farnwrs to go with you to inspect California
:siam niriuhvt'd lands. Opportunity for one good mun
<in (lu‘Il mmmuniiy to join largrst laud selling Orgnxr
iznlinn in U. S. Write for (It‘I.iIIIS. Harman Janss.
[1105 ’l‘r;ui.~portation lilt g. i‘hlcngo. III.

 

AGI‘IN’I‘H \VAN’I‘ED \VI'I‘II (“RS [0 call on farmers.

 

[dust :u-lllug lino to pnulln' and lug rulsm's and
breeders. I'Ixcluslve tvrrimry. Strong repeat Iliihln(}~"i
usmrrtl. Libwrnl commissions. lIibI)s-\Verl.h Lab
lll'JlIUI'lls, 05.3 S. Wells St, (‘llit-ugo.

AGI'IN’i‘S ()ur new Household Cleaning Device washes

and am..- wiudows. swoops, cleans walls, scrubs. mops.
I'mls lws than brooms. Over half profit. Write
IIzn'jn'l‘ hush Works. 173 3rd St.. Fairiield. Iowa.

Advertising
that Pays

RY a Michigan Farmer
Classified Ad. to sell
your surplus poultry, or

to get that extra help.
They bring results with little
cost, see rates on page this of
[this issue.

 

 


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An Easter victory for feminism in “Hold your bosses! Here comes the elephants.” Spring is here .,
India, was the appointment of and the circus prepares to “take the road.” The elephants dance, - Snell, radioitmen, will “if“ railé .
these women as magistrates. and the horses prance, and everyone is ready for the parade. 09 n oppos e corners 0 wor ': '1'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In his speech before American Cotton Manufacturers’ Association, The White Star Liner S. S. Majestic," largest passenger vessel in
President Coolidge firmly stood for a policy of protective tariff the world, was placed on dry dock at Southhampton, England,
to give the producer the opportunity of the home market. in twenty-five minutes—~11. record feat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

Mahatma Gandhi, India’s strongest leader, Jackie Coogan has a “big brother” Seaplane being placed on catapult, which will
dresses in scanty costume to bolster teach- now. Baby Robert Coogan is hurl it from U. S. S. Tennessee, during “Bat-
ings that Hindus Shall reJect Engllsh goods. lour months old. tle” in Pacific of entire U. S. fleet.

 

 

 

  

 

  

 

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Gunnar Kasson, chief hero in thhe epic race to Nome with dip— , ..
theria serum last winter, and his dog team_'1‘he great leader, $1011 to make tentative plans for inquiries to be held BOOB. R118”;
“Dalto,” that nearly lost his life, is heading the malemutes. 8811 F- Bower, extreme left, represents American Farm Bureau. .

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