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'MICHIGAN is larger than Holland,

Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland

combined, and is about equal in area to

England and Wales taken together. The

State has a land area of 36,787,200 acres,

being twenty-first in size among the States

of the Union.and second only to Georgia

among the states east of the Mississippi

river. The fifteen counties of the Upper

Peninsula occupy 10,682,240 acres or a

little over 29 per cent of the total area. To

one who has not traversed the portion

north of the Straits of Mackinac, gen-

erally known as Cloverland, its length and

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MiChigan is three times as far from the Pacific as the Atlantic.



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Q] In 1920, only 51.7 per cent of the State was incorporated in

l farm-s, the total number of which was 196,447. The entire area

of improved land equals only 35.1 per cent of the whole, leav-

3 g ing many millions of acres yet to be developed in whatever man-

l 91:; ' ' ’ ner the future may dictate. The Great Lakes bordering the State,

I i ' as they do on nearly all sides, give it a shore line measuring

1624 miles nearly 500 miles more than that of any other state in

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a bird’s-eye view back over the





iii: accomplishments. of the past four

months and see what our lawmakers





have done which’. is either helpful or

detrimental to Michigan farmers. 1 g



' In summarizing the results of‘ the

recent session it is hardly proper to

Speak. in superlatives. In general, we

might say that the’ measures desired

by Michigan farmers and advocated

by their organizations were favorably

considered by the legislature, but this

should not be taken to imply that the

farmers received all that they desired‘





by any means.

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F outstanding interest was the pas- "





sage of the two—cent gas tax as a

source of highway revenue, and the

accompanying reduction and modifica-

tion of the auto license feesf Enact:

ment of this legislation was hailed as

a. farmer triumph because it had the

almost unanimous support of the in-

dividual farmersand had been a lead-

ing plank in the legislative platforms

of all Michigan farm organizations.

These two companion highway finance

measures definitely provided for the

payment of principal and interest of

the outstanding highway bonds and

for cleaning up the delinquent awards

due to the counties. They provided

that in the future the users of the

roads should pay for them rather than

leaving the burden for over-taxed gen~

eral property.





Perhaps in connection with the tax-

ation legislation we should mention

the passage of Senator Pearson’s bill

allowing for the creation of commer-

cial forest reserves. Timber land

meeting the necessary qualifications

and being handled according to the

specific rules and regulations would be

allowed an annual tax of but a. few

cents per acre, but would be subject

to deferred or harvest tax when the





timber was cu t.

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THE 1925 legislature had great prob-

lems to meet in connection with

appropriation bills for they found that

the state’s surplus was practically ex-

hausted and many of the institutions

were in desperate need, of improve-

ments. After wrestling valiantly With

these knotty problems, the legislature

finally passed appropriation bills which

would have made necessary an annual

state property tax of about $5,000,000

more than that of the past two years.

Under our present tax laws, farmers

stand to pay a big share of this bur-

den, so it is of some satisfaction to

know that the legislature granted a

few of the modest budget requests

made by the farmers.





 

 

 





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" Bream

French troops and natives are clash-

ing in Morocco, where fully 20,000 na-

tivieg are Iupndier arms. , ’

.. e ex can government " ives

warning that 'soviet Russia will ngt be

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ations in that country.





The receding waters of Lake An-_

trona, in Switzerland, has uncovered

an ancient village which was submerg-

ed nearly 300 years ago as a result of

a land slide.



President-elect Hindenb‘urg, of Ger-



many, 18 considering an amn ty pro-

posal for releasing certain caresses of

political and other prisoners soon af-

ter he takes office.

. Ambassador Houghton, in address-

ing a London audience, stated that the

time had arrived when Europe should

begin to help itself, and, if it makes

that endeavor, it would have the as

Sistance and cooperation of the United

Stiites. d



mme iately following the ado tion

of the gold standard bill by the BlPltlSh

Boise of Commoaiis,tthe pound sterling

ex ange imme a e advance

$4.85%. ' y d to



.Recent French elections indicate

slight adVantages have been won in

that country by the socialists over the

re s.





_Leon Trotsky, former soviet war

minister of Russia, has returned from

his sojourn to Trans-caucassion.



Labor organizatiOns of Peru back

President Coolidge’s decision in the

Peru-Chili dispute.



At the International Conference at

Geneva, Switzerland, Great Britain

proposed a limitation on arms with

the exception of war ships. This pro-

posal was promptly backed by Japan.

The United States urged a ban on

international traffic in poison gas for

war purposes.



Considerable damage throughout the

Southern Philippines has resulted from

Earthquake shocks during the past few



ays. '





National





_ Many of the big oil tanks built for

the government under the Doheny con-

tract in Hawaii are said to be going

to ruin for lack of use.



Extensive forest, bog and swamp

fires are sweeping over thousands of

acres in the Cape Cod distriét of Mas«

sachusetts. Many buildings have been

burned and several small towns ~are

threatened.



Fifty fighting ships have been called

to take part in an anti-rum offensive

off the New York and New Jersey

coast.



Twenty-eight indictments against

county officials and others in Morris

county, New Jersey, have been re«

turned by a special grand jury for

open violation of the prohibition laws.



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Among these were bills providing commission has made awards to date

funds for tuberculosis eradication of over $93,000,000, or approximately

work, enforcement of grades and stand- twenty par cent 0f the amount claimed

_ . ,. . _ , , . or war amages.

aldb 0} farm products. combating'the President Coolidge announces anoth-

European corn borer, and the agricul- er drive to reduce federal expendi-

tural extension work for the M. A. C. lures a further $300,000,000.

Most of these bills were passed at lev- . A new (”(1% requires that alllfAmen

els below those requested by the farm- giggmlllgf'y 0 cers mus qua l y as ‘

ers, but even at these modest figures During the month of April 3. new i s

they have met with the disapproval of reciord to}: the number of automobile: ‘

y. . . - - an truc s manufactured was esta

the governors office and a“? 16%ng lished when 435,000 vehicles were pro-

the executive veto. At th1s~wr1t1ng, duced.

the governor has vetoed in its entirety At the congress of American phy-

the bill providing $50,000 per year for sicians and surgeons in session at

the enforcement of grades and stand- Washington, It was held that the av- l

‘ . . . _ erage span of llfe for the next gen— . .

aids 0f Mlohigan farm products, and eration will be three score years and (2..

has cut down the emergency appropri- ten. ' "51





ation for bovine tuberculosis eradica—





tion from $100,000 to $40,000. This _ . . .

action is without precedent and ap- ,Th? 34111011133111 statefie‘éualltleé“ com-

‘ . . . _ missmn as ru e agalns e issu ng

pears to be entirely w1thout constitu of $85,000,000 of stock of Dodge Broth~

t10na1 authorizatlon. . ers’ Incorporated. ’

* * * Governor GroJesbecfkI hals vetoed “1119 Q‘ #1 l,

. grape grading ill. e a so signs t e

RADING and standardization 0f bill appropriating $350,000 for a new

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gives off the most effective gas known for killing rodents. It is quick

and sure in its action and penetrates the burrows, killing the round-

I hogs almost instantly. They cannot escape its deadly fumes an die in

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mouth of each burrow and t e moisture in t c air does the rest. C an-

III ogas is recommended by State and Government authorities. Sen the



coupon today for a large 5-lb. tin sufficient to kill all the groundhogs

I I in 80 burrows. The cost is only $2.50 (express prepaid). Cyanogas like

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proved by the legislature. Michigan the Lower Peninsula.





grades for apples and grapes were

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sired by the growers, and the federal





General Harry H. Bandholtz, United

States Army, retired, died suddenly at

his home in” Constantine, Michigan,‘

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HEN most people retire they go





to the city but we retired to





the, country, not to loaf the rest

of our lives, but to do the kind of

"work and live the kind of lives that

We really enjOyed,” explained Jim





' Grimes when I asked why he moved





as the farm after living twenty-five

years in town, and when he and'his

wife were getting into their fifties.



. “We were both born and reared on

farms and spent all of our young life

in the country. After getting, a good

position as a traveling salesman I

moved to town and we stayed there in

the same house for almost twenty-five

years. My wife always has wanted ,to

get a small farm near the town in





which we lived, and raise truck and,





small fruit From time to time I went

to see various sizes of farms but that

is as far as it went. We could not

sell our large nine-room house and

could find no one who wanted to

trade.



“By this time we had five boys and

tWo girls all under sixteen years of

age. It was a great problem for my

wife to keep those boys out of mis-

chief, for they did not have nearly

enough work to do to keep them busy.

They were all eager to move to the

country, and I expect that the neigh-

bors ‘were equally as anxious to see

us move. ‘



“Then the miracle happened. A real

estate man found a man who wanted

to trade hisuforty-eight-acre farm for

city property. He looked our place

over and seemed well pleased; we

then went to the farm. It had been

rented about fifteen or twenty years

and was badly run down, but it was in

a good location, and after careful con-

sideration we made the deal.



' “We moved in March, 1923; have

been there just two years but we have

worked incessantly to build up the

place and improve it in every way we

could without going into a great deal

of expense.



. “The man who had rented it had

kept a sow and pigs running in the

barn; there were no stalls of any kind

and all the doors were hanging on one





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.. 4l_ ‘ A Practical Jaurnal for the Rural Family





SECTION THE CAPPEK FARM





PRESS





By Harry I. Holt,





hinge or not hanging at all. The first

thing I did was to haul fifteen wagon

loads of"manure‘from" the barn out to

the field. I then made stalls for the

horses and cows'and gave the whole

thing a coat of white-wash for a dis-

infectant. I next went to the wood-

house, which they had turned into a

chicken house. After cleaning it and

repairing and hanging doors, I put a

partition in the middle and made a

wood-house and smokehouse combined.



There were five gates on this farm

and not a single one was on hinges.

This 'was my‘ next move. Maybe you

think that such a state of things was





, plum





old snags. This cleaning made the

farm look like a difi‘erent place.

. “In March and April I made two

hot-beds in which to raise plants to

sell. I also set out a patch of winter

onions and several hills of rhubarb.

After planting twenty peach trees we

had a total of five apple trees, six red

trees and twenty—two peach

trees. The next year I planted five

cherry trees and four grape vines. .

The first year we contracted to raise

fifteen acres of tomatoes for the can-

nlng factory. We used four tons of

special fertilizer for clay soil, especial-

next spring we set out another quarter





 





 





Tile-Draining the Fields

enough to discourage us right at the





beginning, but it didn’t. We were so

eager to getJt up in good shape that

we did not think about it, but all went

to it with a zest that was not known

in town.



“Of course, we had every single

thing to buy, such as stock and equip-

ment and tools. But we attended sale

after sale and in that way were able

to get them at a low cost. We had to

make every penny count because we

had to pay $2,250 to boot, and had a

family of seven children to keep a

year before we could have any crop.



“Then there were two wagonloads

of old rubbish, such as tin cans, old

shoes, glass, old buckets—everything

but money. I next cleaned the pas-

tures of several old brush pilesand





Aided us in Our Venture.





1y for tomatoes and potatoes. The

crop was late and the expense so great

in getting them to the factory that we

did not make any money on them, but

just broke about even. This did not

keep us from planting four acres in

1924. We considered that the fertil—

izer used, together with a hundred or

more bushels of decayed tomatoes,

was worth several hundred dollars to

the ground. The next year we were

able to get them all picked and hauled

to the factory without hiring any help,

and made a nice profit from them.

“The first spring we also set out an

acre of strawberries which resulted in

a very fine crop in 1924, making about

$500 for us besides what we used. We

set a quarter of an acre to raspberries

and the same amount to currants. The





 





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c Retired to the Country -





1%.: Story afJas. 24. Grimes and His Big Family





of raspberries and a half an acre of

blackberries. We got a dandy crop

last year.





“We aim to raise just enough corn

to feed our stock. We keep only two

horses and three cows. We plan to

increase the number of cows as soon ,

as our savings allow us. We have had

fairly good success with our poultry,

but we need new buildings for them,

which is the next improvement we.

have in mind. We raise just enough

pigs to keep us in meat.





Our main line is small fruit and

plants, for we can make more off of

one acre of strawberries than we could

from eighty acres of corn. Raising

plants to sell does not take up much

of one’s time, especially when the

women-folks do the selling and the

boys keep them watered and covered

up. I make around $200 a season from

my plants.





One of the things I did when I

fixed up my barn, was to take a little

room' over in one corner for my work

shop. I have a certain place for every

tool and I see to it that they are kept

in those places, so that when we are

in a hurry for a certain tool we do not

have to waste any time in hunting all

over the place for it. We keep the

premises in a neat condition, have or-

der around the barn, by the roadside,

as well as about the home-buildings,

and I thoroughly believe that beauty

and thrift go hand-in—hand.





“We want to keep the boys satisfied

with their new home and so they are

given certain duties to do, and in re—

turn they are given a pig apiece of

their owu, besides garden stuff or fruit

to sell—anything I think they deserve

for helping make our little forty-eight-

acre farm a success. So far, not one

would go back to town if they had a.

change. They are getting along as

well in school, even better than they

did in town. The whole family has

been more healthy than they ever

were before, probably due to plenty of





Inspecting a Decadent Agriculture

T a: Hills: aaa’ Valley: of Sicily Were Once Callea’ tag Granary of Italy

By M. M. MCCool





FTER having seen the points of

A chief interest in‘Palestine we re-

turned to Cairo, Where we en-

gaged passage on the Italian Steam-

Ship “Esperia” for Naples. We landed

at Syracuse on the Island of Sicily,





'and tarried a while to see the ways in





which the people live, the methods of

farming, and other things of interest.

From thence we went to Naples, hav-

ing passed through the

Messina.



The various steamship company rep-

resentatives in Cairo are good busi-

ness men. When I went to the steam-

ship ofiice to purchase passage from





' Alexandria to Naples on the Italian

vessel, the “Esperia,” I was informed

’ that we had unfortunately chosen the





time to go over when the people were





,_ T. leaving Africa, the Nile Valley and

others to escape the heat and other





any asant conditions that exist in

d as. the summer.





Straits of '





.bourg, _France!





. then sits @711, to the meals “DeLuxe”





 





This general discussion was put on

for a purpose—not merely to entertain

me. All the reasonably priced state-

rooms were engaged and the only left

was what they classified as “DeLuxe”

accommodations. This DeLuxe expe—

rience was a new one for me, very

painful at first, but pleasant later on.

It cost me about twice as much to

recross the Medditerranean Sea as it

did to go from New York City to Cher-

That was the painful

part of the experience. What could

one do~—a greenhorn with respect to

the ways of some ticket salesman——

ready to go to Europe and, in fact, due'

in Rome within the next ten days!



I engaged a. DeLuxe passage; but

it was worth it. After One has liVed

on Palestinian food for ten days and





that were served on this vessel,





and

loafed on the decks or snoozed in the

stateroom or danced in the beautiful

ballroom to high—class Italian music-—

well, it is indeed a “Grand and Glor-

ious feeling” and the cost is forgotten.



In passinggit may be well to add

that there were numerous unoccupied

staterooms on this voyage, probably

the reservations were cancelled at the

last moment. One learns many things

away from home.



Egyptian money is not looked upon

with favor in European cities, hence,

it is advisable to exchange it before

the vessel sails from the seaport. At

this seaport there are dozens of mon-

ey changers on the docks and on the

decks of the steamshig just before

sailing. My impression is that some

of these fellows would change the





milk, butter and eggs, regular hours

and lots of outdoor exercise, and

fresh air. ‘

traveler’s money with the latters’

knowledge. Here again it is well to

know the relative values 01 money.

Previous experience in Cairo had





taught the writer this lesson.





In Italy the steamship did not dock

at Syracuse owing to the shallow har-

bor, but the passengers were landed

by means of rowboats. The city of

Syracuse has a population of about

500,000. The streets are very narrovTT"

except the main avenue, and are paved

for the most part with cobblestones.

Portions of the city, at least, are not

scrupulously clean. In the vicinity of

the city is a famous Greek Theater, a

Greek Forum and famous quarries.





From these quarries was taken the

building material for the ancient city

of Syracuse, the population of which‘

has been estimated at from one-half

to one million and a half. It is stated

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NUMBER TWENTY





MAY 16, 1925





V0 LUM I! CLXIV





DETROIT,

CURRENT COMMENT





 





 





HE upper house of





Michigan the Illinois legiSv

lature has just passed



Also Needs a bill requiring poul-

This try dealers to keep an





accurate record of all

purchases of poultry. The purpose of

this measure is to protect poultry rais-

ers from thieves who otherwise might

sell loot from chicken roosts without

detection.



Certainly farmers would welcome

some measure which would lessen the

amount of thieving now going on. If

the bill now enroute through the leg-

islature of our sister state is at all

effective in bringing about better con-

ditions, it is to be hoped that similar

action might be taken in this state.





T is very seldom



that general meet-

ings are opened with

prayer now-a-days. A

jazz orchestra feature

ds more likely to be

the opening number. For that reason

the short prayer which is used by a

Woman’s Club in Philadelphia is out-

standing. Not only is the practice

they have established unique, but the

prayer itself is worthy of being the

opening number of thousands of meet-

ings held throughout the country.





There are usually wrangles in most

organizations. Personal matters often

overshadow the common good of the

organization. But if, when the mem-

bers get together, they would center

their thoughts on an unselfish ideal as

the prayer expresses, harmony in solv-

ing the problems of the organization

would undoubtedly prevail.



The prayer follows:



Keep us, 0 God, from pettiness; let

us be large in thought, in word, in

deed.



Let us be done with fault-finding and.

leave off self-seeking.



May we put away all pretence and

meet each other face to face, Without

self-pity and without prejudice.



May we never be hasty in judgment,

and always be generous.



Teach us to put into action our bet-

ter impulses, straight—forward and un-





True Spirit

of Cooper-

ation





afraid. Let us take our time for all

things; make us grow calm, serene

and gentle.





Grant that we may realize it is the

little things that create differences;

that in the big things of life we are

' as one.

And may we strive,to touch and to





_ pa 3 .

to open the meetings. of our coopera-

It seems oer».





tive association with?

tain that it would instill m‘ore thor-

oughly the true spirit of cooperation,

for‘ it- expresses in itself the essence

of true cooperation.





' T is gratifying to





- us to learn that the

“in" author of “So Big,“

Pullfzer the serial story now‘

Prize running in the Michi-~





gan Farmer, has been

awarded first prize by the judges of

the Pulitzer endowment, for produc-

ing the best novel of the year.



While we regret, with our readers,

the lack of space for running larger

installments of this splendid serial,

there are, we know, a host of dis-

criminating readers who are follow-

ing closely Miss Ferber’s interpret-

ations of life. '



Those who fail to read the install-

ments through to the end will miss

much. The author has a thing to say

to folks in general and to students in

particular, that is extremely vital to

us individually and nationally. It is

our confident belief that patience in

pursuing this story to the end will be

rewarded abundantly.





OT long ago when





Willie Jones met



Juft Sammy Downs on the

Getting River road he inform-

Together ed Sammy that it was





, not likely they Would

continue to walk in the same class

thereafter.



The cause of this infraction was

later discovered. It appears that Wil-

lie’s mother had joined a sewing so-

ciety which had for its object, not so

much the making of garments requir-

ed by the family, as for “improving

the happiness and prosperity of their

home.” This high purpose was ex-

plained to Willie as a reason for leav-

ing him to his own devices, for a few

hours, while his mother attended the

club. The innovation so impressed

the boy that he. divined a rise in so-

ciety, and he was ready to throw over

his old chum.



The incident suggests, however, that

farm women are getting together more.

They are slowly losing that desire to

work alone, and are developing, with

their husbands, the idea of cooperat-

ing. The housewife no longer attacks

her problems alone, for the ladies of

the community, aided by extension

workers, study these matters in every

detail; and, as might be expected,

many of these problems disappear

with a better understanding of them.



But a new organization is in the

field—the Federated Farm Women of

America. Thehigh ambition of this

national institution is to re-establish

the peace, happiness and prosperity of

the farm homes of the country by en-

listing groups, local associations and

individuals as members in an or—

ganization strictly non-political, and

essentially educational and economic

in character.



Much power to these women and

those who join with them. They have

a staggering job. Peace and happiness

and prosperity will come to country

places when the human power there

is fully occupied with worth-while mat-

ters; when the fine roots of humaniza—

tion crowd out those parasitic growths

of gossiping that too generally blight

the fine spirit of the country side.





HIS is being writ-





Ridin ten during Safety

R dg Week in Detroit when



9“ 8 - the traffic police are

Right over-diligent in find-





ing technical infrac-

tions of the rules. Inasmuch as the

writer committed one of those tech-

nical infractions and made a donation





. ‘ gy ” . -.

other fellow 'Mbdesty.

A modest man Will never show,





ant.

off his driving ability nor the Speed

limits of his car. Sdbriety is also a





safe quality. One must not be intoxi-"'





cated, either with liquor or feminine

beauty.

ou to others on the road, as well as

the two in the car.





A knowledge of the\car one is driv- ’





ing is also a safety factor. Thousands

of cars are being run by those who





know nothing of them, except to push .





the pedals and turn the steering

wheel. It is one of the great wonders

of the world that more accidents do

not happen because of the abuse cars

continually get.





Not only should we ride roads right

but we should walk themleft. The

pedestrian is in just as much danger

as the autoist.

and care when he facts it along the

road. The left side of the road is the

safest to walk on. Carrying a light

at night is ”another safety factor.



With cars selling’at ten dollars a

week, greater judgment ”and ability

will be necessary to avoid minor as

well as more serious accidents. Farm-

ers, of course, are conservative, but

one needs an over-supply of judgment

because of the lack of it on the part

of others.





IT is





only seven



Farmersj weeks till we shall

And the] :4 be Celebrating Inde«

J pendence Day, the an-



Fourth niversary of the day





when our forefathers

declared this country to be free and

independent -



In the framing of that declaration

and in the events which followed,

farmers todk a very large part. Down

through the history of the nation from

the defense of the stores at Concord

in 1775, to the critical days of the

Great World War, that same class, the

tillers of the soil, distinguished them-

selves in both numbers and valor as

defenders of America and all our coun-

try stands for.



It would seem quite fitting, there-

fore, that from among our farmers

should come a movement calling upon

citizens everywhere to celebrate in the

old-fashioned way with big chicken

dinners, bands and speeches, hunting

and flags, to the end that the true

principles of Americanism may be-

come deeply established in the hearts

of our citizenship.



To make this day of the highest good

to America will require time in the

preparation of interesting and effect-

ive programs. For the same reason

every community should have its

own celebration. Organizations should

select their committees now that ad-

vantage might be taken of the ensuing

weeks to perfect programs—programs

that will cheer the old and enthuse the

young, by rehearsing and re-emphasiz-

ing the fundamentals of our national

life.





HE tooth pullers





The of Massachusetts



T till had a convention the

00 e33 other day. They eith‘

Age 'er wanted to get into





print or scare the

public, for they predicted that Ameri—

cans would be a toothless race in due

time.



They say that men don’t take care

of their teeth, and women have chil-

dren. The report is that women’s

teeth are afiected as much by having

children as by neglect. Therefore,

those things, according to these tooth

authorities, are going to make us a

toothless race.



There is no \doubt but what many

men are careless about their teeth,

but the matter with reference to wom-

en is a serious one. According to





 





One-arm driving is danger- =





He must use judgment





Therefore these few words. .





.‘of it, cats have kittens, dogs have pup-





pies, horses have colts. and they also





4, have good teeth.





Dentists area great need in this day

. and age, for we have been careless;



we have, perhaps unawares, departed

from proper habits of eating. This is

the fundamental cause of tooth trou.





tainly need attention, for, bad teeth.

cause all kinds of trouble.





But we are beginning to realize our

errors in eating and will consequently

have better teeth. Perhaps many of

us are beyond repair as far as teeth

are concerned, but we can help to pre-

serve our children’s teeth by feeding

as nature intended children should

be fed. Then perhaps the human fam-

ily will be able to continue to have

babies without damage to teeth, just

as giving birth to puppies, kittens and

ponies has no detrimental effect on

the teeth of their parents.



It is everyone's duty to himself to

give at least as much attention to his

own'diet as a good farmer does to the

porper feeding of his animals.





 





Religun





I4" a fellow is lookin’ around fer a

religun, he kin find all kinds 0’

them. There‘s some what makes you

do certain things on Sunday and oth-

ers make you do some things on Sat-

urday. Some want you ta wash your

head, and others want you ta take a

full bath. Some want you ta kneel

and bump your head on the floor, and

Others want you ta. count beads, say

hallieyouju, or jump up and down.



There’s so many differunt kinds it

oughten’t ta be hard ta please any-

. body. But it won’t

make no differ-

unce whether you

wash your head,

take a. full bath,

or count your

heads, etc., if you

hate, get angrY.

cheat your neigh-

bor, or intenshun-

ally do the wrong

things, and etc., you ain’t got the right

idea 0’ your religun.



Thinkin’ and doin’ is the two great

things 0’ life. What we think is got

a lots ta do with what we do, ’cause





 





our actshuns follows our thoughts. Our,





religun is supposed to guide our

thoughts in the right directshun and

thus help us ta do right things. Our

religun should help us ta. follow the

high standards and exampuls on which

a good religun is based





I think one o ’the best guides in re-

ligun is what is called the Golden

Rule, what says that we should do ta.

others what we would want them ta.

do to us. Some folkses is got this

mixed a littul, and use, “Do others as

they would do you, but do it first.”



If a fellow follows this last one,

he’s got reason ta fear the future, but

if he is careful about what he does

Here, the Hereafter will take care 0’

itself.



Religun is gotta be a part 0’ one’s

life seven days in the week tar do any

good, ’cause it’s a guide ta livin’. Just

goin’ ta church, magic words, pray-

ers o’ the mouth instead 0’ the heart,

or etc., ain’t goin’ ta make us better

men and womin. I figure there ain’t

no passwords ta heaven; you gotta

work your way in by bein’ the best

man or woman you can. Then you kin

answer the questshuns asked at the

pearly gates without blushin’u



Maybe you know by this time, this is

the fourth 0’ my serious 0" sermuns.

The text is, “The religun what does

the most good is what I use in my

everyday life ” Which is also the cone

clushun 0’ this sermun. Amen.





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. ‘ _ daydoixwmo

- ~' a check comes in payment for milk. .

;. So it goes throughout the year Every

. 385,31 the cows must be milked and the-

stain: haulpd away. Every thirty days

a check comes in payment for milk.





 





 





 





   





thief’is done and then





'lhe farmer does not see the milk after,

it is set by the side of the read. He

may never see the man Who is buying.





This milk.





In the days before there was an as





“ sociation of milk preducers, the milk





buyer sent the farmer notice of how

much he would pay for milk during





"the next month, or in some cases the





farmer never knew what the price was

until the check came. When the check

and statement were received it was

sometimes difficult for the farmer to

discover what price he‘ had received,

because milk statements are not al-

ways easy to interpret.



In these times in most markets there

is an association of milk producers.

The officers of these associations of.

producers bargain with milk buyers

and a price is determined upon. The





average farmer is still unfamiliar with

just how these prices are arrived at





and what factors influence price. We

are all apt to be suspicious about

things we don’t understand. It is,





therefore, quite natural for farmers to

question the equity of milk prices as





well as the prices of other products.



It is not always easy to ascertain

just what factors "determine price.

The controlling factor might not al-

ways he the same. One fundamental

of our economic life is that the buyer

will attempt to buy at the lowest pos-

sible price and the seller will attempt

to get the highest price he can. Just

whether the price will be at the high

or low point depends on many factors.



The price for milk to. the producer

will be somewhere between the two

points of (1) thehighest price the dis-

tributor can afford to pay, arm (2) the

lowest price the producer can afford

to sell at.



Some factors might enter in to make

the price go outside of this range for

a short time, but it can’t do so for

any long period. If the price falls

below cost of production, the .farmer

will ultimately go out of business. If.





 





tributor. can’t make money, he will





’Sooner or later Quit the business.

; Just how much the distributor can





afford, to pay for milk will depend





:upon how much he can get the con-’





burner to pay, and his costs of opera-

tion. The amount the distributor can'

get for milk depends upon many

things; for example, income, national-

ity, a. realization of the food value of

milk, prices of other foods, the faith





 





 





to 90.: Supply and 'Demcmd fiar Peculiar way of Normg m

f By J T





the price goes so high that the dis-





Herner





it would be. fpllowed if it brought





more money than other operations.





During the past few years farmers





‘ have been advised: to go into dairying





as a means of recovering from the ag-

ricultural depression. It was this un-

profitableness of other lines of agricul-

ture which caused the competition in

dairy products to increase and, there-

fore, result in a lower price.



The price of whole'mi-lk' depends to

a considerable extent upon the price





 





 





The Tank Truck Makes it Possible to Haul Milk From Distant Points and

Keep it Cool and Sweet.





of the consumer in the justness of the

price, weather conditions, and others.



The distributor’s costs of operation

depend upon the wage level; consum-

ers’ demands as to methods of deliv-

ery, sanitary requirements, credit ex-

tension and other services; complete

”competitive practices and other costs.



Farmers are going to produce milk

when they can make more money that

way than by doing other things. One

factor, then, which sets the level at

which farmers will sell milk is the

profitableness of competing farm en-

terprises. Farmers would not produce

milk no matter how profitable itgwas,

if they could make more money doing

other things. On the other hand, dairy-

ing might not be very profitable, but





of manufactured dairy products. If

milk is worth more at the butter fac-

tory, the cheese factory, or the con-

densary, than it is as whole milk, it

will seek these markets. The whole

milk price must go up then to attract

sufficient supply to satisfy its require-

ments. On the other hand, if the man-

ufacturing market is low farmers who

are selling there will attempt to get

onto the whole milk market.



If farmers who are naturally-WIRE

condensary or butter regions did not

attempt to come into the whole milk

market, a higher price could be main-

tained. It is inadvisable to attempt to

have the whole milk price too much

above the manufacturing price. The

price of milk for manufacturing pur-





. product can be set at any level.





poses is really the most important fac- “

tor in determining the price of fluids—A ‘





milk. The whole milk price can’t be

below the manufacturing price, nor

can it be too much above this, or milk

from the Outlying territory will seek

the city market. ‘



So there are high and low points of. "

the possible milk price. Just where~

the price will settle between these will

depend to a large extent upon the bar-‘*

gaining power of the farmer and the

distributor.



At times when there are other prof-

itable lines for the farmer to enter,

the price is apt to be high. When

other farm enterprises are unprofit-

able, farmers will turn to milk produc:

tion and the price will be nearer the

lower level.



Milk producers make a mistake

when they think the price for their

If it

is too high, many farmers formerly

selling to the condensary will seek the

whole milk market and force the price

down. There seems to be no feasible

or equitable way to keep these outly-

ing producers out of the market.



There are some practices of compe-

tition in milk distribution which

should be eliminated and some of the

costs of operation can probably be re-

duced. These savings, however, are

more apt to result in a reduction of

price to the bonsumer rather than an

increase to the producer.



So long as there are farmers who

will sell milk below the prevailing

market price, so long will it be impos-

sible to increase the price to the pro-

ducer. No type of organization of pro-

ducers will make such possible.



we don’t know all about milk mar-

keting. There are many factors of

this business which need studying.

Progress is going to come and bring

stability with it when we study this

problem in a scientific and unpreju-

diced manner. However, we do know

that the following factors have an in—

fluence on the price the producer re-

ceives for his milk.



1. Cost of production.



2. The price the distributor is able

to get for the milk.



3. Bargaining power of producers.



4. Prices of manufactured dairy pro-

ducts.



5. Profitableness of competing farm

enterprises.





3116ng the Letter S





NEVER had an intimate acquaint-

Iance with Neah Webster and I



don’t know whether he was what

you’d call a wine-bibber or not; but

I’d be almost willing to bet a bushel

of spuds against a dime—which is

even money—that he went on- a pro-

tracted spree when he hit the let-

ter “S.”



Take the title of this song, for in-

stance, and you’ve got a sentence even

a judge can’t pronounce. By all the

laws of etiquette and gravity, that

word "Sault” should be called the

same thing you sprinkle on celery.

But it ain’t. Or, take the combination

of letters S—I-O-U—X (those- were the

babies that done their scalping before

stadiums were built). Why, I wouldn’t

hesitate a minute in‘ pronouncing it





like CY-OAKS. And any mediocre"





student ' of the English slanguage

would, at first glance, call “SOU,”

which means the price of a stick of

gum, the same thing we call a mama

‘pig. Then take number one horizontal,





. ’ ma three-letter word meaning a. girl's '





“Sue DD .





 





   





‘ four words





By Harv Hess





are pronounced alike! Would you be-

lieve .it?' Yes, sir, just like “SOO.”





The 00’s are long as in "radish.” By.





.a rigid application of some of the laws



of grammar we might see how they

could get that sound out of the first

two words, but to get S00 out of

SAULT is worse than getting FISH

out of RIVERS. It’s almost inconceiv-

able and that’s why I think Webby,

when he come to “S” started with

“saloon.” But this is beginning to

sound like a spelling —match, so let’s

step out.





Speaking about Indians, there’s a

city down in Indiana called Indianap-

olis which is known as the largest

burg in the country not situated on

a navigable. stream or lake. Person-

ally, I’d hate to make my home in a

town that bragged up a slogan like

that. I’d rather live on‘a raft. Well,

last summer, a young couple from In-

dianapolis come around Ironton where

they could look at something besides

brick walls all day, and where the air





was polluted with nothing but sun—

shine and, one day, I says to A], Who

happened to be the masculine member

0f the duet:



“Al, they tell me that down where

you come from the only time you ever

see a body of water is Saturday night.

Is that right?”



“Worse than that. Our water has

to be hidden in pip-es to keep people

from looking at it,” he replies.



“And you never have boats or

steamers cruising around?” I asked.



“No. We don’t even see a schooner

any more,” he says, dolefully. “One

reason we like to come up here is to

see all the different vessels floating

around. I could watch boats all day.”



“You ought to get a. job at the $00,”

I told him.



“Where’s that and what is it?” he

inquired.



“Didn’t you ever hear of the Soo

‘canal?

class come to geography?”





Where was you when y ur





Sue Gave 4 Sou to 4 5101190 at Me Salt/t





“You mean the Soo—ez canal, don’t

you?”

“No, sir, I mean the 800. There’s





four times as many boats pass through

there in a day as th1ough the Suez in

the same length of time.”



“How far is it and how do we get

there?” You could see he was weak-

ening.



"‘Well,” says 1, “it’s a two day’s trip

there and back in my car and one in

your’s. If we can catch the first ferry

out of Mackinaw we ought—”



“Is there a fairy in it?” Al inter-

rupts.



“Why, sure. How did you expect to

get across the drink?”



“I don’t know. I thought maybe

we’d ford it.”



“Not in your car we won’t.”





“I see,” says Al; “when do we

start?”

“Let’s make it tomorrow A. M.





bright and early. Be ready at 5:00.”

“My gosh!” he yells, “what’s the big

idea of starting in the middle of. the

night? You don’t have to sneak up

on this ferry do you?” '

“Well, not exactly; only, she don’t
mi a couple love 0 '

relatiOns or ours by marriage,





 

 





'as all on hand. like a wart.

We crawled into the tonneau of a

0d old Michigan-made

which aced it in my opinion, alongside

of eight or ten baskets of grub, and

everybody raring to go. It was a

4'11th of a day and the old weather





 





. had. Personally, I like to sneak away

from the cows and hens once in a

j while. It fills a guy with reneWed wim,

wigor and witality, now, don’t it?.\,

- Al stepped on the starter at seven-

' ty-five minutes past four and a. little

3‘ ways out We collided with M-11. Turn-

ning north, we put-a couple breases in

the concrete all the way. to the brew-

.ery- outside of Petoskey and then, as

I, the Blue Book used to say, we “jagged

"left and right” on up the trail to Mack-

inaw. As we Skidded into the center

i of the business district, where you

could command a good view of all the

city. Al pulled up to take a look

around.





“Keep those wheels turning, Al,” I

,yelled, “we haven’t any time to rub-

ber. Do an M-11 L at the next corner.

Right over there’s the dock and——”



- “Doc who?” he interrupts.



“Listen, Al, this is the kind of a

dock where you lay up; not the kind

that lays you up. And for goodness

sake don’t let on to the crew that

you’re such a dumbbell or they’ll have



' you playing ‘drop the anchor’ with the

buoys.”





W'e headed toward the pier where

the ferry was tied and found we had

all of five minutes to spare. That’s

figuring pretty close, I’d say and if

one of our Minor chord tires .had gone

A-fiat we’d been outa luck, that’s all.

We bodght a steerage passage and Al

steered the bus on. It was some job,

too. and we had to straddle a couple

flivvers before we finally come to at-

'tentlon.



The last time I made the trip was

before the ferry was operated by the

state and you could have gone to Am-

sterdam on what they charged you.

The owners had all the water rights

and, believe me, they soaked you. I





HAT will the 1925 wheat crop

Wsell for? Will it average higher



or lower than the 1924 crop? Will

the low prices of two and three years

ago return? Or, is the American grow-

er of wheat, the most important single

food of the white race, to be assured

henceforth of the economic security

which the importance of his product

justifies?



A good start to the answer of such

questions would be the opening line

of a poem which runs “Absolute

knowledge have I none.” The real

facts available at this date as a basis

for forming a judgment upon the

trend of prices in the next crop year

are mighty few and far between. But,

the individual farmer, whose wheat

ripens in June and July, if he pretends

to use any judgment in the matter,

must decide whether to sell it from

the machine or put in the bin on just

such slender evidence. Even by the

time spring wheat is ready for the



. thresher, the bundle of uncertanties

in the price outlook will remain form-

idable.



In trying to draw a picture of the

wheat situation and of wheat market

prospects as they appear at present,

there are two main features to be put

on'the canvas. First, is the size of

the old crop reserves in this and other

countries; second, is the prospective



yield of the new world cr.op This

- second point, in turn, may be split up

, into two parts. On the one hand is





 





   

 

 

 

 

 





machine, ,





man was out strutting all the stuff he'





James di. Ain’t that rich? How

ever, since the grand old state of Mich-

igan' has taken over the ferry it is dif-

ferent.





As soon as the boat started we un-

loaded fromthe car, went up to the

top or pinocle-deck, and proceeded to

keep four .chairs from blowing into

the lake. .



“I wonder if it ever gets very rough

out here," one of the girls asked.



“You bet, it does,” ~I replied.





ico headed north and by the time it

has reached herelthis water is straight

up and down. That’s why they call it

the “Straits.” Just because old Lake

Michigan is serene .and "nice today,

dOn’t get the idea'it’s always like a

looking glass. She can certainly go

into convulsions in a hurry if she

wants to.”



“And can these little ferry boats

stand the racket?” inquired A1.



“Oh, yes. They’re as stable as a

barn and built to withstand anything

short of tidal waves. They cross lots

of times when the automobiles have

to be fastened to prevent their rolling





into the briny.”





Don’t you love a boat, ride? I sure

do, and I’d like nothing better than to

have apples sell for about, $20 a peck

some fall and'me with a thousand bar-

rels on hand. I’d rent the Leviathan,

load her up with my friends and try

to find a few undiscovered continents.

This ride didn’t last long enough,

though, and in about an hour after

we’d left the city of Mackinaw we

pulled into the wharf at St. Ignace.



Was you ever there? St. Ignace

looks to me like it had been settled

on a hot day and spread. It is scat-





tered for a long ways up and down the '

shore—an old lumbering town that has‘





hit the skids. We stopped long enough

to take on a little gum, gas, candy and

oil and then us and M-12 become fast

friends. We passed them all. M-12

is another one of Michigan’s fine con-

tributions to the traveling public and





C onditz’om Over Me





TREND OF CHICAGO WHEAT





you ought to ride a horse—Jesse ‘





You can take a whole can"

_full of people over, Ford and all, for

$2. 50. 7'





. “You

start a zephyr from .‘the Gulf of Mex: 1





 

 





new there’s





padlocks, and he‘miocks, and there s~





locksteps and locks of hair and good-

ness knows how many kinds there are.

These. locks we inspected. and approv-

ed are something entirely different in

the lock line and I’ll simply have to

tell you about them. .



‘ To begin withpwhy is a lock? Well,

you see, there's a difference of about

nineteen feet between the social lev-

els of highbrow Lake Superior and





rlowbrow Lake Huron, andeme and you





know how hard it' is to ascend the

social scale. Before they had the





' locks in, Miss Saint Marys was a wild,





fast-stepping river, covered with rocks

(not diamonds) and hard to handle.

If a boat wanted to go from Superior

to Huron it would have to shoot the

rapids, and there’s no boat can do that

successfully, outside of a gunboat. But

a gunboat couldn't carry enough of a

cargo, so there was nothing left to do

but to do something different.





So, in the gay old days of 1797,





some Frenchmen become sick and tit“:





ed of hauling their furs by truck from

Superior to Huron, and they also got

peeved at the fast pace this little flap-

per, Saint Marys, was setting. So

they got together one morning and

built a jail~right alongside of where

this little vamp done her traveling,

and they caught her; put her in this

jail and shut the doors. That was the

first lockup and was all of thirty-eight

feet long. Think of it! .That day, we

seen boats with whistles bigger than

that. Nevertheless, that little lock

done business for a long time and

then, in 1855 the state of Michigan

come through with a couple of locks

350 feet long. In 1919 the United

States built the fifth lock which is

1,350 feet from entrance to exit.

Suppose you was coming down from

Superior with, say, a cargo of soap

for Pittsburgh. When you got down

to the Soo you’d blow your whistle





Checking Up on the Wheat





Mr/d C aflfme One





PM. m 0. YEAR.





 





the probable size of crops in importing

countries together with the amounts

which they must import during the

year. On the other hand are the yields

and probable surpluses in exporting

countries.





The wheat bins of the world are

going to be more nearly empty before

the new crop comes to market than

they have been for several years. This

is the conclusion to be drawn from





- practically all the evidence at hand.





From the United States, all the cal-

culated surplus was exported by May

1. Since further exports are sure to

be made in the next two months, either

the carryover will be below a normal

figure of 75 million bushels, or domes-

tic consumption will be light, or the





supply of wheat left in this country,





was larger than indicated by the gov-

ernments March 1 report. In each of





 





the last two years, the carryover has

been about 100 million bushels. It

need not cause suprise if the reserves

on July 1, when our old wheat year

ends, are down to half that amount.





Broomhall, the leading foreign grain

statistician estimates that importing





countries will need about 160 million‘





bushels from exporting countries be-

tween May 1 and August 1, when the

new European wheat year begins. To

furnish this amount will necessitate

an unusually clean sweep in Canada,

Argentina and Australia as well as in

the United States.





Canada had only 121 million bushels

left in all positions on April 1 against

202 millio\n bushels a year ago. Allow-

ing for average domesti‘c needs for the

rest of the season, the amount already

exported in April, and a carryover of

fifteen million bushels, Canada can





eat ’ ‘ ' .

‘gates on the Karon en, 1.,

' _ and out you go‘. If you were coming- -"





 

 





 

 

   

   

   





up from Huron, you’d slide into a lock _. 1.;

and they’d raise you to the law (if. ‘

Superior—higher but no drier-44nd

cut you loose. This whole operation \ ~~ .

«can ’be done in just about nine min-

utes or so.



Some 120 men constitute the lock

force and they’re mostly Irish. Hon- »

estly, it’s just like landing in Dublin. ‘3‘.

One of our girls was dolled up in a '

green outfit and they’d have given us

any lock we wanted. We walked up‘

to a fellow who had a brogue broader

than broadcloth, and Al says: .



“Are you one of the locksmiths?"



“No, sor, me name’s O’Toole,"

plies this baby. '



"You know,” says Al, “I don’t care

much for figures except the kind that’s

built with curves, but there’s a few

things I’d like to find out. Tell me,

how many boats go through here in

a day.” .



“About 100, sor; in 1855 when the

state built the lock a total of 193 ves.

sels was handled during‘the whole

year. Last year we locked 22,000

through.”



“And what do they charge each boat

for this service?"



“Not a cint. It’s all free," says he.



“My,” says Al, “somebody is awful

liberal. Who owns these locks, any-

way?”



“Why, me and you and all us United

States citizens." And therein lies the

key that fits the lock. Here was one

of the biggest engineering projects in

the country right, you might say, at

our back doors and Al not only had

never seen it but didn’t even know he

was part owner of so gigantic a con«

cern. I’ll bet A1 ain’t the only one,

either. I’ll bet there’s a lot of Michi-

ganders that’s never even heard of it.



It’s a wonderful sight, honestly. And

this summer, during haying when time

hangs rather heavily on your hands,

why don’t you take a little run up

there and see yohr little Soo. You’ll

like her.



Well, soc-long, folks—that’s all.





Outlook





ship abroad possibly 45 million bush‘

els from May 1 to August 1. Argen.

tina and Australia can ship about 60

million bushels before August 1 and

have left a possible 40 million bushels

for export after that date. India is

practically out of the exporting col-

umn for this yea1 as her crop is below

her average consumption in recent

years.



But the‘45 million bushels from Can-

ada, 60 million bushels from Argentina.

plus tWo 01 three million bushel from

miscellaneous sources still leave 50 to

55 million bushels to be gotten from

somewhere in order to make up Broom~

hall’s estimate of 160 million bushels

needed. The United States can export

some new wheat in July.’ Clearances

of 20 to 25 million bushels are about

as much as can be expected in that

month. There are still 25 to 35 ML

lion bushels to be supplied. Probably

all the major exporting countries will

contribute to this amount by still fur-

ther reducing their carryovers.



Altogether, it appears that the quan<

tity of old wheat available for export

or for carryover in exporting counts ‘

ries by midsummer this year will be

about 115 million bushels, unless the

last crop yields were underestimated.

This is approximately 100 million

bushels less than last year. The in-

ferences to be drawn are that the mar-

ket is entitled .to hold exceptionally

strong until new wheat is available in -



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. of. Mr. Lensing figured the fertilizer





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' féscriptioh was a dose

00 ,ds ”per acre ’of a 2312-2- ter-

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merit... A strip wasvleft across the field 7





with no,.fertilizei‘,. . ,.

‘Resuits' were not slow in showing

up. The strip without fertilizer was

slowin coming up. It did not stool

nearly as heavy as that fertilized, and

all through the gToWing season was

behind the other._{ At harvest time it,

had a greenish-color when, the rest

was "ripe. The Straw was five to six

"inche'svshorter than the other.





Equal areas, one-quarter square rod, . ..





was cut from each plot. .The bundles





ment at the Michigan Agricultural Cof-

lege to be threshed out. Here were

the results. 'The fertilized part yield-

ed forty-tWo bushels of cats per acre

and 3,386 pounds 'of straw. Where

there was no fertilizer the yield was

twenty—five bushels .of cats per acre

and 2,716 pounds of straw. This was

an increase of seventeen bushels of

oats and 670 pounds of straw.



Oats at this time were worth thirty~

five cents a bushel which would make

the increase Worth $5.95. The fertil-

izer cost $5.00 an acre. You wonder

where the profit came in. Well, it

wasn’t in the 670 pounds of straw, but





where the fertilizer was used there .





was a real catch of clover. On the

check there wasn’t any clover to speak





was a good investment.——K. K. Vining.





 





FOR BETTER ALFALFA HAY.





 





T HE hearing on alfalfa hay grades

held at the Agricultural Building

of .the Michigan State College, April

26, did not develop into the stormy

session which characterized the bean

grade hearing the previous day. Much

was brought out which will be of in-

terest to Michigan alfalfa growers and

shippers, both of whom were repre-

sented at the meeting conducted by

W. A. Wheeler, in charge of standard-

ization work on hay feeds and seeds,

United States Department of Agricul-

ture, and E. C. Parker, chief hay in-

spector. ‘



Mr. Wheeler announced that hear-

ings were being 'held in New York,

Alabama and Michigan, and that these

states were surpassing many of the

western states in alfalfa production.



The tentative grades proposed were

those resulting from a great deal of

study, much Of which was made on

the hay tracks of the Kansas City

market. They reprbsented, according

to the g0vernment men, the standards

of quality in line with which there

was price differentiation on the mar-

ket.



A number of samples of Michigan

alfalfa were graded by Mr. Parker and

the general feeling seemed to be that

the higher grades represented a prac-

tical goal which Michigan alfalfa

growers might attain.



Many helpful suggestions were made

by Michigan shippers, the most im-

portant involving the establishment of

a grade for alfalfa clover mixed, 3.

grade of good value becoming quite

common in Michigan markets. Ship-

pers were also quite anxious fer in-

spection service at point of origin and

Mr. Wheeler felt this would be en-

tirely, practical by arrangement with

the State Department ‘of Agriculture.



Methods of curiifg were discussed

and both shippers and growers urged

the farm crops department of the col-

-lege to continue its work on curing

demonstrations started last summer.

It was of interest, that the ”curing meth-

ods‘ employed bilgthe college had re-





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No one understands better. than Walter P. Chrysler himself,





— How Chrysler Meets

Motoring Needs in the Country





 





 

 

 

 





 

 

 





the particular problems and needs of rural transoortation.





They have been a continuous part

of his life and work ever since his

boyhood days in the little town of

Ellis, Kansas.





Through the .years he has studied

them, and they were foremost in

his mind when he built the car that

bears his name.





His answer is a car with the won—

derful stamina and stand—up ability

that comes from highest quality—a

car with gasoline economy safely

over 20 miles per gallon; 21 car of

moderate weight that rides as stead—

ily as a two-ton car; a car that rides

the ruts with .comfort, even at the

highest speeds.





These, with a motor having literally

no period of vibration, and a high—

gear speed range from 2 to over 70

miles per hour, are some of the

unequaled results built into the





Chrysler. \





The Touri

Brougham, 1965 ; The Imperial, $2065; The Crow





Bodies by Fisher on all Chrysler Six enclosed models.





There are Chrysler dealers and superior Chrysler service everywhere.





Nothing less than the Chrysler kind

of engineering could produce the

unprecedented results which are

now so famous.





Nothing less than the vast Chrysler

manufacturing facilities could pro—

duce such qualitv at Chrysler prices.





And nothing less than Chrysler

ideals could inspire every man in a

great organization to produce the

best car and the best value that men

and machinery can build.





Here, in brief, are the reasons why

Chrysler results are not equaled;

and why the Chrysler is winning its

friends from all classes of motor car

owners and buyers, in the country

and the towns alike.





If you are not familiar with Chrysler

beauty and performance by per—

sonal experience, the nearest

Chrysler Six dealer will gladly give

you your own kind of demonstra'

tion, over your own kind of roads.





Car, $1395; The Phaeton, $1495; The Roadster, $1625; The Sedan, $1825; The Royal Coupe, $1895; The

Imperial, $2195. All prices f.o.b. Detroit subject to current government tax.





All models equipped with special design six—ply, high-speed balloon tires.





All dealers are in position to extend the convenience





of time'payments. Ask about Chrysler’ is attractive plan.





CHRYSLER MOTOR CORPORATION , DETROIT, MICHIGAN

‘ Division of Maxwell Motor Corporation

MAXWELL-CHRYSLER MOTOR COMPANY OF C ANADA. LIMITED, WIND SOR, ONT.
. orgasm: COXIPLANS s‘e'so'

. TRAIN.





 





HE. Federated Seed Service is

planning to run a seed improve»

t » train through, several northwest-

‘istates this season, for the purpose

df,,,visiting growers of alfalfa, clover

3 d other field seeds in that part of

the country. The _need for giving

loSer attention to varieties and the

yelopment of better strains through

,eed selection will be stressed. Pro-

fessor ' Cox, of the Michigan Agricul-

» tur‘al College, 'will have charge of the

"fprdgram. '





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





L Origin has been greatly stimulated, it





lilting departments of the Federated

.‘Seed Service. These organizations

are the Michigan Farm Bureau Seed

Service, Cooperative Grange League

Federation Exchange of New York

state, Ohio Farm Bureau Service Com-

pany, Indiana Farm Bureau Purchas-

ing Department, Virginia Seed Service,

‘ Wisconsin Farm Bureau, and the Ag-

ricultural Corporation of Maryland.

Plans are being made for seed distri-

bution in Pennsylvania, West Virginia,

Iowa and Minnesota.





 





FARM BUREAU GAINS IN MEM-

‘ BERSHIP.





 





HE American Farm Bureau Feder-

ation is gaining in membership,



in morale and personnel, according to

:» reports brOught back by the Wash-

ington representative from the Chica-

go meeting of the executive board.

Indiana is now 100 per cent with the

federation. The Illinois Agricultural

Association and Iowa Farm Bureau

are working in harmony with the na-

tional organization. Membership cam-

paigns are on in Oklahoma and VVash-

ington state. The Michigan Farm

Bureau is in a better condition than





CULL BEANS FOR COWS.





 





I would like to know whether cull

beans are good for milch cows, and

fattening cattle. Which way are they

best, ground up raw, or cooked ?—-D. S.



Cull beans, up to a certain amount,

are a good feed for cows. If you fed

too heavy a ration the cream will

make a hard tallowy butter, which is

not desirable. Four or five pounds per

day should be the limit.



Beans are more palatable when

cooked and are also more digestible

but cooked beans are not very nice

to feed, and besides it is hard to tell

how much you are _. feeding, owing to

the uncertainty of the moisture con-

tent.



W'hen ground into bean meal they

can be readily mixed with -the other

grains of the ration. Cows can be

educated to eat bean meal as well as

anything else by taking a little pains.



With fattening cattle, of course you

need pay no attention to the quantity

fed as you would with cows.





 





-LABELS FOR MAPLE SYRUP.





 





What is the law on selling maple sy-

rup? Is it necessary to have cans of

syrup labeled when selling to just a

few of the neighbors? Is it necessary

"to have more than your name on the

labels?—~H. L. W.



Compiled Laws (1915), Sec. 6468

_prohibits sale of adulterated maple

syrup without label showing percent-

” age and nature of .adulteration. No





other requirement is found. There





 





j The use of adapted seed of known.





.4 is :said, by several state seed distribr





for some time pastj M. Li‘Noon, presg'





ident of the Michigan Farm Bureau,

was elected a member of the board Of

* directors of the. federation."





 





WOULD, SLTAN'oAnolzs seeps.





 





’ HE representatives of farm organ-





izations are invited to attend a.





conference in the department of com-

merce on May 28, to consider the pro:

posed simplification /and standardiza-

tion of seed nomenclature, quality, etc.

The purpose of this conference is to

'give the seed buyer better protection

in his purchases, insuring greater uni-

formity of quality in the crop and thus

enable the grower to secure the best

prices for his produce, and to elimi«

nate wastes caused by the production

of off-grade vegetables.





 





COOPERATIVE LAW STANDS

‘ TESTS.





 





HE standard cooperative market-

, ing law promoted by the National

Council of Farmers’ Cooperative Mar-

keting Associations has been enacted

by thirty-seven states. It'has been in

the courts of several states and has

been upheld in every case. The Min-

nesota cooperative associations have

recently come out victorious in a case

contesting its validity before the su-

preme court, and havealso repeated

an attempt to have it repealed by the

legislature.





ESTABLISH AGRICULTURAL

SCHOOLS.





 





HREE schools giving instruction



in agriculture will be established

in Russian Armenia, Palestine and

Greece in connection with the Near

East relief organization program, the

agricultural committee of which sen-

ator Capper is chairman. The annual

expense of these schools will be $250,~





 

   





 





 





‘Vs [3| 2 NaMe and Hddres





000, but- reports. iii-on ram

who have made‘in'vest Mobs indicate

that agricultural educationl'isi‘one Of

the big present needs ~ oftthef‘Near

Eastern peoples. " ‘





 





WANT, cREAM PROTECTED.





 





F the tariff on butter is raised from



eight totwelve cents a pound by

presidential proclamation, following. a

favorable recommendatiOn by the Unit-

ed States Tariff Commission, the deal-

ers in cream and probably the produc-

ers of fluid milk will insist upon a cor-

responding increase in the tariff rate

on their products. The cream dealers





are already asking that the rate on '





cream be comparable 0n the basis of

butter-fat. They say a large amount

of cream is being shipped into this

country from Canada in competition

with cream produced in America.





APPOINTS ASSISTANT To DR.

TAYLOR. '





 





HE appointment of Nils A. Olsen



to be assistant chief of the. bureau

of agricultural economics, which was

made at the request of Dr. H. C. Tay-

lor, chief of the bureau, tends to dis-

credit rumors that Secretary Jardine

is planning to overhaul the bureau and

place new men in charge. Mr._ .leen

has been in the department since 1919.

He will have charge of research work.

His appointment was made necessary

by the expected long absence of Dr.

Taylor in Europe. Lloyd S. Tenney

will be acting chief during Dr. Tay-

lor’s absence.





INVENTS NEW TYPE OF TRAP.





 





NEW trapping device invented by

.Vernon Bailey, chief field natural-

ist of the bureau of biological survey,

promises to do away with much of the

cruelty attending the trapping of fur-





 





Whe Se’ndmg Inqumes,





as Satisfactory Servuce Cannot be Gwen to Unsngned Letters





would seem no necessity for label if

the article is pure—Rood.





 





TAKING TRAPS FOR TRESPASS.





 





If A. sets traps on trapping ground

belonging to B. can B. take traps and

keep them‘H—F. ‘.



The owner of the land can certainly

take up the traps. and hold them until

title is proven and damages paid for

the trespass—Rood.





LOSING VOTING RIGHTS.





 





How long before one loses their

right to vote in a township where they

pay taxes and have not registered in

near-by town where they live at pres-

ent?—E. S.



The elector can vote so long as his

name is on the enrollment; and all he

need do to restore right is to register

again—Rood.





 





BUCKWH EAT WITH ALFALFA.





 





What do you think about putting in

a ten-acre field of alfalfa and sowing

a peck of buckwheat to the acre about

June 20? I want to keep working the

ground until time stated above. This

ground has never been limed but is

underlaid with marl—J. H. B



Buckwheat is sometimes used suc-

cessfully as a nurse crop for alfalfa.

However, better seedings are usually

secured when the seeding is to be

made the latter part of June.



Your idea of preparing a well-firmed

and clean seed-bed is excellent.—~C. R.

Megee.





 





 





VALUE OF HARDWOOD ASHES AS

A FERTILIZER.





 





What is the value of hardwood ashes

as a fertilizer? How much would you

advise using to the acre on grain,

beets and beans? Would they be good

to sow on a meadow of alfalfa?——L. L.



On the average, hardwood ashes

contain five per cent of potash, werth

five cents per pound, and two per cent

of phosphoric acid, worth eight cents

per pound.



Five per cent of 2,000 pounds equals

100 pounds. of potash at five cents,

$5.00; two per cent of 2,000 pounds

equals forty pounds P. S. at eight

cents, $3.20, making a total of $8.20

per ton.



If you were buying this in the form

of commercial fertilizers this would

be worth the cost, packed and deliv~

ered at your station.



Ashes also have a value for the

lime they contain where the land needs

lime.



No one can tell just what formula

you want for different crops on differ-

ent soils without experimenting, be-

cause soils differ so much as to the

amount of plant food, ingredients they

,contain. But the potash and phos-

phoric acid is hardly in the right pro-

portion for most soils and crops. At

least that would be the concensus of

opinion.



Ashes would do fairly well for beets

and potatoes, and also for alfalfa or

clover, but for grain crops you need

more phosphoric acid. If you increased





experts.





   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

   

   

   





bearing wild: anthers} ‘n’ s 'a‘ wire

meSh' net which completely incleses‘





tthe captive. The -designs ,wtllbe pub-A





”lished by the bureau assoon'as they

are perfected, for the. use of trappers





all over "the .United States. " .



' The trapwas designed-by Mr. Bailey

to capture ”beavers that he. is distribfi

uting along- the streams in Pennsyl-

vania, but slight variations en the trap

may be used to capture. muskrats,

minks "and ,other fur animals.





all the effectiveness and strength of

the steel trap.





FARM SITUATION SHOWS lM-V \





PROVEMENT.





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\HE agricultural situation is some“ '1





what more encouraging than a.

year ago, say the crop specialists'of

the bureau of agricultural economics.

The live stock industries, although

slow to right themselves, are in a

much better general position than

last year. Sheep are apparently at or

near the peak of a price cycle. Hogs

have doubled in price since last spring

and, if history repeats itself, will be

high for at least a year to come. Beef

cattle have recently turned upward in

their price cycle and again if history

repeats itself, have eight or ten years

of rising prices ahead. There are

twelve per cent fewer cattle on feed

in the corn belt than last year. The

dairy industry shows signs of some

improvement on the eastern market

milk end.





THE WORLD’S LARGEST DAIRY





 





THE New Zealand Cooperative

Dairy Company claims to be the

largest individual dairy company in

the world. In its report to the depart-

ment of agriculture it is shown that

» its output for 1922-23 season brought

the farmers $21,899,000. '





 





the phosphoric acid to about twenty

per cent, then 200 pounds per acre





. "would be a fair application for grain.





 





FERTILIZER FOR CUCUMBERS

AND STRAWBERRIES.





 





What can I put on seed corn to keep

the crows from eating it? It’s some

kind of a tar preparation but I have

forgotten the right mixture in regards

to proportions. \Vhat kind of fertilizer

can I use for cucumbers and straw«

berries?—J. F. S.



The best you can do is to use a



, good complete fertilizer. One with a.

formula something like 3—12—5.



It might be that all you would need

on your soil would be one of the es«

sential elements, as phosphorous. Or

it might be one of the other two. To

analyze the soil and find out what is

lacking is not practical and so use a

fertilizer that contains all three and

be safe.



By observing carefully the growth

of crops for several years a farmer

can get a very good idea What essen‘

tial element of plant food is most.

needed in his soil, and in that way

will be able to purchase brands of fer~

tilizer more intelligently.



To Prevent Crows From Pulling Corn.



Any of the coal tar disinfectants will

be as good as anything you can get.

Every crude oil refinery puts out one.

These are much more easy to use than

coal tar because that has to be thinned

to use. The probability is that. you.





will. not be satisfied with 'the results;





you get.

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’ reliably do better with

. eye which yield fully as well

and find abetter market.



Michigan ‘grew about seventy-five

fper cent oI the white naVy bean crop





 





-‘ in 1924 and it has been marketed at





l 1; fairly good prices.





About the same





‘vacreage as last year should be well





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. twenty—two counties "along the south-'





’ ' warranted fer 1925 .—-Cook.





 





THE BETTER HOMES TRUCK

- MOVES. » .





 





FARMERS livi'iiginthe western and



nertheasterni-parts of the state will

be interested in knowing that the

Michigan Agricultural College "‘better

homes” truck, which last year visited





ern' border 'of I, Michigan, started on





Mauls, on the first" leg of a scheduled.





two months jaunt through Midland,

Arenac, Ogemaw, Tuscola, Huron, St.





Clair and Sa'nilac counties. This first ,





portion of the trip will end about June

15, and a four weeks'tour of western

Michigan will follow later in the sum-

mer.





This truck is fully equipped with

the very Tatest in all devices offered,





for home convenience. Sample home

electric lighting outfits, pressme wa-

ter systems, heating plants, electric





motors and appliances as well as a;

complete radio installation, are carried.





in the body of the truck, and as a spe—V

cial feature, a model farm bathroom,





' complete in every detail, has been ad-





ded to this year’s display.



Stops will be made at specified farm"

houses along the route where farmers

of the immediate countryside may





. gather to view the exhibits while the





1 college men supervise the erection of





a “Michigan” septic tank. VA complete

set of these disposal tank forms will

be left in each community and it is

expected that the individual farmers

will be able to glean enough informa-

tion from the demonstration to install

'modern sewerage systems in their

homes after the truck leaves.

Farmers living in the counties vis‘





. ited by the truck may 9 able to have





the demonstrations held at their own





: farms and have a septic tank- built at





cost under the supervision of the col-





" lege experts by arranging with their





”rumore of- rye Were. export





county agricultural agents.



0. E Robey, of the agricultural en-

gineering department of the Michigan

Agricultural College, will have com-

plete charge of the tour. —Cook.





 





WORRIES ABOUT WHEAT SHORT-

AGE.





 





A WORLD wheat shortage in future



generations is’seen by Dr. 0} E.

Baker, a department of agriculture

economist, unless a rational land and

population policy is formulated by the

nations in which the white race is





dominant. Dr. Baker bases his conclu- “1L





sions upon a recent study of world

wheat production.



The wheat eating people of the

white nations now consume 2,525 ,000,-

000 bushels of wheat annually. Allow-

ing for normal population increase,

but for no increase in per capita con-

sumption the requirements of the

white race twenty-five years from now

will be 3, 200 ,,000 000 bushels.





 





GRAIN EXPORTS INCREASE





THE foreign demand for American



grain and feedstufls has continued



eavy ever since the beginning of

marketing seaso last summer. U





 





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wheat and nearly 22,000,000 bushels





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' oil—how easy on tires. y =1 You economize further through



the long life of the car resulting from Oakland’s correct



design and advanced engineering. H 1:» Confirm these



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sometimes forget what an important role advertising has played in

making life pleasant and altogether livable.



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The Pollmation‘“ Problem





ByG.H





.LDER' orchardists planted all the

varieties in the. nursery catalogs

and then found that the modern



marketman could” not handle such a

motley array. Some of us have gone

to the other extreme, and as a result





we may have a pollination problem





which rarely existed in the apple or-

chard a quarter century ago.



This year was very unfavorable in

Ohio during blossom season, and as a.

consequence we heard chmplaints on





every side that the fruit did not set





and that there was an exceptionally

heavy June drop. At such a time one





, is surprised to learn how many or-

chards of only two or three varieties





will be reported.

Now, I_ realize that we have some





workers who maintain that there is no





such thing as a, pollination problem,

that the trouble is all due to insuffi-

cient plant food or moisture at certain

critical times of development. I, my-

self, have frequently come to the con-

clusion that what seemed to be a

pollination problem was one of anoth-

er nature entirely, and can agree in

considerable part with such a conten-

tion. But, on the other hand, there

are unfruitful orchards that are in

large part so because of lack of proper-4‘

pollination. The difficulty is that the





pollen is extremely complex and varies;





one year with another.





Weather.



Of the external causes of lack of a

fruit “set” perhaps the one that comes

first to our minds is that of the weath—

er. It is probably rare that apple

flowers freeze in the bud as do many

of the other fruits. The writer has ob-

served the opening buds over a rather

Wide range for several years and has

not seen a single case, even in north-

ern New England after a. “test” win-

ter. Perhaps too much is made of

Weather at blossom time as an ad-

verse factor. But probably all would

agree that the greatest hazard in the

fruit business is the spring frost. And

furthermore, we have observed over a

number of years that when the tem—

perature is low, or prolonged rains and

wind obtain at blossom time, we will

have an exceptionally heavy drop.





Surely this means something and to

tie it up entirely with the nutritional

problem seems inadequate to explain

the phenomenon. It would seem more

logical to attribute the results to such

factors as a paucity Of pollen distri-

bution, cellular inactivity leading to

such possible results as slow pollen

tube growth, ’embryo abortion or de-

cay, imperfect fertilization, and a gen-

eral weakening of the flower part.

Furthermore, the inactivity of bees

during unfavorable weather is very

striking. In fact, those of us who are

in the orchard practically all the time

during blossom season usually predict

that there can be little set of fruit

when the weather is unfavorable. But

to our surprise, we sometimes find

a. full crop on some varieties and a

partial crop on others. This would in-

dicate the tremendous amount of work

the insects do in a. few hours of favor—

able weather, and also it gives a. prac-

tical demonstration that certain varie—

ties are much more capable of setting





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fruit from their own pollen than oth-

ers. In fact, this observation has [led

some of our best orchardists to con-

clude that it is the wind, after all,

that does the pollinating, a conclusion

that cannot be substantiated by any

exyerimental work.





 





SOME GARDEN. HINTS.





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WHEN you are planting the home

garden this spring remember

that the small seeds should have only

a little fine earth above them " saYs

"the‘bulletin on home garden sugges-





tions jointly prepared by the nutrition‘





and horticultural specialists at Ohio

State University. \



“As a general rulej’ the bulletin

continues, “the smaller the seed the





lighter they should be planted. An





onion or a lettuce seed should have

only a very ,little fine earth above it,

while peas or beans can be covered

an inch or so.



“When planning the garden make

the rows long enough and far enough

apart to use horse implements. This

arrangement will take more land but

it will save time and labor in a busy

time.



“Since a. rich soil will hold twice as

much water as a poor soil, and since

moisture is especially important in

the home garden plot, try to select soil

that contains plenty of decayed ma.-

nure or vegetable matter. No land

should be worked when it is too wet.

As soon as a clod of the garden earth

will crumble in the hand when squeez-

ed the ground may be prepared for

seeding.



“Not more than an inch or so of

subsoil should be turned up in any one

year because this soil is lacking in

the proper amount of organic matter.”





\MUST PACK BETTER.





 





ASTERN fruit growers are awak-



ening to the realization that if

they are to successfully compete in

the markets with northwestern apples

they will have to grade and pack their

fruit as good as, or a. little better

than, the Pacific Coast growers grade

and pack their fruit. The state com-

mittee on grades and standards of the

Virginia State Horticultural Society

has decided that several changes must

be made in their apple grades, one be-

ing the tightening up on the No. 2

grade.



The committee insists that the face

of each barrel be taken from the grade

of apples with which the barrel is

filled, using precaution to avoid a de-

ceptive face; also that the size of ap—

ples used in the face should not be

larger than the average run in the

barrel. It was decided that the spec-

ifiCations used by those boxing their

apples be the same as those standards

adopted by the western box apple

packing states. It is the purpose of

this committee to make inspection as

effective as possible. It will be re

membered that poor, carelessly graded

fruit shipped to England from Virginia

orchards last fall, caused much injury

to the foreign market for American

apples.
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This Tree Was~ Sprayed Annually for

Cherry Leaf Spot. Note Growth.

spray of lime—sulphur and both get

worked and manured every spring. I

dig around the tree on the lawn and

work manure into the ground; the tree

in the row gets the regular working

with plow and drag, also some manure.



The tree on the lawn is afflicted

every summer with cherry leaf spot,

the leaves turn yellow and drop early,

while the few fruits ripen while still

very small. It is inconvenient to reach

it with the spray rig so it does not





get a. summer spray of Bordeaux. The‘ _7 VEN after it has given far longer service

tree 1n the row gets summer spraying— . . .

than 18 expected of a h1gh grade tire, a





with arsenate—Bordeaux while I am .

spraying the young apple trees and Royal Cord looks good—and zs good—for





plum fillers. It bears a full crop of It is a common Saying among many more miles.

. men familiar ‘Wlth all makes, Th1s graceful ageing, this exceptional





wear, is due to three great improvements





of tires that “a Royal Cord in tire making:—





J ,, Sprayed Rubber.

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Was in the Lawn and Was Not

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great big, juicy cherries and is making

a fine growth; It holds its leaves until





late and is green and thrifty. Possibly .— . o .



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the extra working It gets makes some ette ltc .— aStl moo we... a, ,Qujckly .g.

difference also, but I am inclined to ' 1 ‘ I I 2”“°‘l.‘:.:3:..,‘;f‘§3?;::





lay the difference in growth between mziiz'a‘fl'éfifii‘gmfimfi

the ~twoptrees to the cherry leaf spot anteed.Usedon enry ord-





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heavier growth on lighter, richer soil,

but trees planted on clay soil life

much longer than those on sandy soil

and stand the regular summer drouths

much better.-—L. B. R.





HE Federal Horticultural Board

estimates that from eighty-five to

ninety per cent of the real insect pest

problems in this country are due to x.

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AUGUST 1 ‘15. CHOSEN FOR , THE

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periment station of the Michigan

State College at Chatham has become

a well-established annual event. This

year the date for the round~up is Sat-

urday, August 15. The annual boys’

and girls’ club members’ camp will

take place the same week. The prin-

cipal speaker at the round-up will be

the president of the Michigan State

College, Dr. Kenyon L. Butterfield. An-

other event will be farmers’ poultry

culling contest.





CHIPPEWA TAKES ON MORE LIVE

STOCK.





 





number of dairy cattle in Chippe-

wa county during the past three years,

with similar increases in other kinds

of live stock, leads Mr. D. L. McMil‘

lan, county agent, to urge the growing

of more alfalfa in that county—long

famous as a producer of hay—~as a.

forage crop. A series of farmers’

meetings was held in the county the

last week of April by alfalfa special-

ists from the Michigan State College,

for the purpose of promoting the grow-

ing of this fine forage crop. Farmers’

questions about alfalfa were answered





 





and soil samples were tested for them.





i ——.————————————~.

2 COOPERATES WlTH BOYS AND

' GIRLS.





 





HE Gogebic Range Poultry Asso-



ciation, desiring to promote im-

proved poultry culture in that county,

is offering to give every boy or girl

under sixteen years of age one or

more settings of eggs on condition

that the recipient agrees to hatch and

rear the chicks to the best of his abil-

ity and to exhibit at least two of them

at the ensuing winter poultry show of

the association in a class known as

“The Juvenile Breeders’ Association.”

Rewards are given to the winners.





gestions for the correct rearing of the

chicks which are to be followed as

nearly as may be. A committee of

the Gogebic Range Poultry Association

has charge of the arrangements for

this cooperative undertaking.





CLUB BOYS DEMONSTRATE ON

POULTRY TRAIN.





 





CT the least important personage



on board of the special poultry

demonstration train, which started

from Ironwood on April 27 for a three

weeks’ tour of the peninsula, was

Grant Gallup, of Gastra, fourteen-year-

old poultry club champion of Michi-

gan for three successive years.





Grant Gallup, it is not a common-

place to say, is a natural-born poultry-

man. He .has always loved the poultry

game from the period of his babyhood

and.he seems destined to make a

name for himself in the future on his

chosen line.

tra, Iron county, farmer, and has elev—

en brothers and sisters, among Whom

there have been several other club

champions, and all of whom have

showu their ambition to make their

mark in this world. Among the dis—

tinctions which have come to Grant

Gallup besides his thrice state cham-

pionship, have been trips to the Mich—

i an State Fair and club leader of a

£ultry club at Gastra.





Now he accompanies the poultry

train to tell his auditors what can be

done in the poultry business, if hand—

led on proper lines. Some of his owu

poultry stock is on the train as a vis-

ible demonstration of what this boy

has done in this line. He handles only





 





HE farmers’ round-up at the ex- -‘





THIRTY per cent increase in the .





The donor is permitted to make sug-.





He is the son of a Gas-1





' .good stock and he has the records to

prove what they have prbduced and‘





have cost him The Duluth, South.

'Shore & Atlantic Railroad has employ‘

ed Grant as one of the demonstrators.

on this poultry tour.





 





MARKET DAY AT EWEN.





 





EWEN, Ontonagon county, now has



a farmers’ market day, and it is

starting out very well indeed. The

market is held on the fair grounds

and, as one observer says, there was

offered for sale everything from game

eggs to_ horses. There were registered

cattle, seed grain, pigs and chickens.

In the forenoon sales were private,

while in the afternoon the residue of

the stock on hand was sold at auction.

By 4: 00 p. In. most everything was dis-

posed of. The Ontonagon Valley Farm—





ers’ Association was behind this ma1-’





ket and will conduct a. second market

of the sent on June 20. Good coopera-

tion was forthcoming from the mer.

chants. The market bids fair to be«

come permanently established to the

advantage of both town and country.





 





FORESTRY PLANTING GOES

‘ FORWARD.





 





THE forest demonstration plots,

which were described in these 001‘

umns recently, are an assured success

so far as getting the plots and the

trees are concerned. They have been

secured in ten counties of the penin-

sula, both Houghton and Menominee

counties having two plots each. No

difficulty was encountered in securing

them. The county agents assisted in

locating the land and will act as con-

signees for the trees themselves.





The trees, to' be planted on the plots,

will consist of Norway pine, White

pine, spruce and poplar. They will

number forty or fifty thousand and

will be provided by the Michigan De‘

partment of Conservation, from its

tree nursery at Higgins Lake, and

from the Michigan State College, while

the poplars will come from Cloquet,

Minnesota, from the

Forest Experiment Station, Dr. Raph-

ael Zon, director. It is the object of

the poplar demonstrations to show

what can be done along the line of

producing soft wood for cheap box con«

struction. The trees were being ship<

ped on a schedule in late April to the

several places where they are wanted,

and in several counties the boy scouts

volunteered to assist in the work of

planting.





All this is good news, for it reveals

an awakening interest in reforestation

in Michigan. Word comes that a De-

troit lawyer is behind a project for

planting 65,000 trees near Traverse

City.





In the Upper Peninsula the Cleve<

land Cliffs Iron Company has a ten-

acre tract of white pine near Ishpenr

ing, put out twenty years ago, which

has a remarkably fine growth and

which demonstrates beyond question

that reforestation is practicable in

this region. Incidentally the presence

of much small game there Shows what

reforestation means to the problem of

game conservation as well as timber

production.





 





COUNTY agents in seventy-two



Ohio counties report that there

are 13,593 radio receiving sets on

farms in these counties.





 





College authorities stated that a

number of hay-curing demonstrations

would be held the coming summer to

aid Michigan farmers in securing bet-

ter feed and in getting their crop in

the higher priced market grades-





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'f’ .. voice would travel very long distances

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,, 4' j The island 'of Sicily is noted for sev-

»> " ’eral things.~ One of 'thesei’s that it

p A» ' has sent manyimmigrantsto .the Unit-

; _‘ . fed States. \About ten years ago more

, ,_ than 140,000 people feltvthe island of

1 Sicily for the United States, and: it is

V __ said, tens" of thousands of bank/ac-

‘ .. - counts in the various cities of this is-

: land represent the' remittances that

‘ are poured into this country by Sicil-

ians, who reside in America. . It is said

' that Termini, with a population of 25,-

000,‘has contributed about 15,000 im-

migrants to this country.



Agriculture is an important indus-

try on this island. The total area is

597,000,000 acres, ninety-five per cent

of which is devoted to some phase of

agriculture. It is said that one—third

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Italy. This Theater is Still In

Use.





800 absent landlords, and consequent-

ly backward conditions exist. There

is no modern machinery—the most

primitive plows and garden tools are

used, indeed much of the terraced

lands are too steep for their use, and

again, manyof the holdings are too

small for other than hand labor. In

/ some parts, however, there are very

large estates and extensive systems of

agriculture are followed. No fertiliz-

ers are used, and when a field be-

comes unproductive, it is rejuvenated

by being left in a fallow condition.

The rainfall is not great, and is not

well distributed. As a result the coun-

try is very droughty where irrigation

, is not practiced.





The outstanding agricultural prac-

tices are the lemon production and

canned fruits” and vegetables. The



’ lemon belt lies along the north shore

to Messina and along the entire east

coast, extending into the interior a

short distance. The lemon groves are

placed on increditably steep slopes by

means of terraces and are irrigated

for the most part. There is one splen-

did plain which is devoted to the pro-

duction of the lemon fruit. About

eighty thousand tons of lemons are

produced annually—one-half of which

is sent to the United States. Much

of the fruit is utilized for the manu-

facture of calcium citrate and other

substances and the rinds are made





use of for stock feed and fertilizer.,





, ‘ Owing to the density of population,

very little attention to the installation

of modern machinery is given. The



\ \_ ~ lemons are cut open and the pulp re-

' moved by hand.





o i In ancient times, owing to the great

‘ r,‘ , fertility of the soil, it was called the

granary of Italy, being noted especial-

ly for wheat,_wines and honey. At

present, it does not provide enough

' food for its four million people. The

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food had to be obtained in some man-

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thoSe having good lands in abundance

often were forced to fight invaders,

and those in need of food had to fight

for possession of it. I shall have oc-

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later on_ in this series of articles.



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" pecially at'dawn.»-‘Here one may see.

numerous islands that stand-3 out of

’ the water like huge hay'cocks-*lin an

English hay field. They are very dark

in color and resemble the peaks of

mountains, the lower portions of which

have been submerged in the water. I

thought as we passed~ along this sec-

tion that if the Cascade Mountains of

the western 'part of the United States

were submerged, leaving the peaks of

Jefferson, Hood, Shasta and others ex-

posed and the snow removed from

them, they would probably resemble

these islands in the Mediterranean

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It is said that owing to the nature

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ocean-going vessels apparently en-

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ing what they have done with their





» costs to operate a set.



I have a three-tube set using all dry

batteries. I.have had it for six months

and it has cost me ten cents a day for

batteries. I operate the set fromcne

to four hours every night. but 'very sel«

dom useit during the day.



Of 'course, it depends on how much

I use the loud speaker as to the length

of life forthe batteries, and much de-

pends upon the condition of the bat

teries when they are purchased. A

battery fresh from the factory will

last much longer than One that has

been on a store shelf for several

months, although they may both test

the same. I have tried four different

makes of batteries and find that they

last from five to nineweeks per set

qf three. I use ninety volts for my B

battery.



I have received programs from six—

ty—flve different cities, but as some at

ies have several stations, I have re

ceived messages from nearly 200 sta<

tions which I have reCorded. I get San

Antonio very well on a loud speaker

and have also received programs from

Miami, Florida, and Springfield, Mass,

and other points just as far away.



I believe that a radio set employing

only dry batteries costs less at first

and is cheaper for a farmer to keep,

unless he has a farm lighting plant.

In that case he can use the plant to

charge a storage battery. My rural

mail carrier has a five-tube set which

operates on storage batteries, A and

B. He has a lighting plant and uses

it to recharge the storage batteries, so

his upkeep is almost nothing.



Two tubes are enough for earphones.

I like a set that has more tunes, but

one on which all but two can be turn«

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RURAL HEALTH

LL By Dr. 0. H. Lern'gv ,





 





 





SCARLET FEVER





 





illy has scarlet fever. Bobby has



been sent to grandma’s. How

may we get a quick release from

quarantine so that Bobby may come

home? What is the Surest fumiga—

tion?”



It was an excellent safeguard to

send Bobby to grandma’s, but our sub-

scriber will spoil the whole thing if

she hurries the release from quaran-

tine. Take plenty of time in scarlet

fever. Go slow! This is not only for

the sake of keeping others from taking

the disease but also for the sake of

the patient who is convalescing.



Scarlet fever is a treacherous dis-

ease of quick and easy contagion. We

used to think that the spread of the

disease depended upon the dead skin

that flakes and scales off the patient’s

body, but we now know that if this is

a factor at all it is quite unimportant.

The discharge from a running ear may

be contagious for months after scarlet

fever. A throat that continues sore

is a source of suspicion. The patient

should be kept from contact with sus-

ceptible children for at least six weeks

if the case has been severe. If mild,

two or three weeks may be enough.



Looking at the other side, we must

remember that quarantine is an excel-

lent thing for the little patient, him-

self. It keeps him from too early ac.

tivity. Scarlet fever is a very hard

disease on kidneys and heart. A child

may come through the disease in splen-

did fashion; then get out a. few days

too early while the skin and kidneys

are very susceptible, suffer some slight

exposure, and develop a disease of the

kidneys that will make him a chronic

invalid.



Don’t be inclined to rush the release

from quarantine after scarlet fever.

The good of the patient and the wel-

fare of his playmates both demand

good judgment in taking time.





 





 





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IT’S not going to be hard to tell what



we are getting out of our radio re-

ceiving set. We get real news by

listening in every night to the fast

climb of the hog market. A small

bunch of our hogs brought $60 more

than they would have brought had we

sold them when they were first ready

for market. I mean by that, a $60 ad-

vance besides the gain they made dur-

ing the time we held them over.



Being a farmer, the market report

is my first choice.





Having a farm electric plant we con-

nect the radio to three of the cells on

the light battery so we have no trou-

ble with charging. We change the

connections over on different cells

once in a while so that it doesn’t dis-

charge these three cells too rapidly.

This also gives us an even current.



We like the old-time fiddling and

popular music best. We really en-

joy it.



Our radio set doesn’t fade much,

and I wish that it never did. It would

be a wonderful improvement if sets



\could be made so that the signals

would not fade.



Some folks like one thing and some

another. I think that the broadcasting

in general is pretty good as it is. A

little story heard over the radio illus-

trates it. “A farmer driving along

the road called to his neighbor’s little

boy sitting on the fence, ‘Johnnie, how

is your pig’ ?”



“ ‘She’s all right. How are your

folks?”—W. J. A. '





 





MICHIGAN CLIMATE IS GOOD FOR

WEAK HEARTS.





 





Does anyone with weak heart stand

the climate in New Mexico? Or what

climate is best? Are the western

states good climate for such as that?

—D. R. G.





Persons with weak hearts must be

careful about going to high altitudes.

The rarified atmosphere makes quick-

er breathing and puts a lot more work

on the heart. If they undertake it

gradually, however, such patients may





Before planning to increase produc-

tion, make sure the productcan be

sold—Dairymen’s League News 7





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"was living in Paris“ at the time, and





had gone to a house to keep an assig-‘

nation; when he was arrested by a vis;





ion at Christ hanging on the cross.





He’left‘the room dagfi‘ed and stunned,

and, as the years proved, “a completely

changed man. He“ was -' purified

” The._past- became abhor-

rent to him. He was‘neVer tempted

againwto sensuality, which was a won-

Formerly, he

said, nothing could have cured him if

this sin but shooting through the head.



Another case, known as that of the...





‘ Oxford student, of ‘which James tells,





shows the same

transforming pow-

er of the Spirit of

God. This man

had been a drink-

er, also a. Smoker

from his twelfth

year. 'Yet as he

was in his room



was so unmis-

' " ‘ ’ takably converted

that never again was there a return

of the old appetites. He attributed

this effectual transformation to the

fact that he completely gave himself

up to God.





 





HE very recent case of Mr. Philip



Cabot, of Boston, is a case in

point. His experience was told by

himself in the Atlantic Monthly about

two years ago. Now he has published

a book entitled, “Except, Ye Be Born

Again.” His . experience as told in

either the magazine or the book is

highly worth reading. His conversion

is of the deliberate, thoughtful type,

without much emotion, and entirely,

one gathers, without mystical illumi-

nation. A conversion that entered

through the mind of—the reader, rather

than the heart. .



One thing that discredited the old

idea of conversion was, people insisted

that it was the only road the soul

could travel into the Kingdom. But





‘ God is not as arbitrary as that. There





are many highways to the best. One

soul travels one, and another soul an-

other. Still farther, it used to be in-

sisted by a certain type of religionist

that you must enjoy certain emotional

states, and even repeat certain phras-

es, or your conversation was not gen-

uine. But this became a burden im-

possible to bear. People are not all

made alike, thank goodness. Some

folk as good as ever breathed are in-

capable of such ecstatic experiences,





T was natural for the reaction to



follow. Reactions always follow a

one-sided stressing of truth. The re-

action was, that conversion is not nec-

essary at all. And along with this has

been growing up the. emphasis on the

religious education of the young. Teach

them aright, it is said, and no conver-

sion is necessary. But the truth~of

the matter is, that there must be both.

No church should give itself excluSive

1y to either. People who havewan-

dered from the religious teaching of

childhood and youth, are ripe for a

Change of heart, in a great many cases,

if some one will show them the way.

Life is a hard teacher, and not infre-

quently a man who is self-sufficient at

thirty, is ready for religion at forty-

five. .



The time is on us, and we'cannot

side step the religious training of the





young. Their blood will be on our

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Two cents of each church dol~



lar goes for religious education, while

forty-seven cents of each tax dollar

goes for . schools. The discrepancy

,ought to take theTOrTn‘ of a gimlet and

'bore its way into our thinking. But

While the church is "wrestling with this

problem, it is not necessary to neg-v

lect adults, and to pass them by as

if noue of them needed spiritual ther-

apeutics.





.PAUL was on his way to Damascus

when he had his conversion expe

rience. Apparently he was not far

from the city limits, for he got up and

went on into the city. The city which

thus wasthe scene of the conversion

of the greatest‘ffigure in the history of

the church, is still standing, and more

prosperous than ever. It is, of course,

one of the old cities in the world, per-

haps ‘the oldest. A large Christian

temple was built there, in the early

centuries of the church, on the founda-

tion of a Greek temple. But the church

was superseded by a Mohammedan

mosque, which has been on the site

for many centuries. The only remain-

ing trace of Christian traditions is the

inscription over one of the gateways:

“Thy kingdom, O Christ, is an ever-

lasting kingdom, and Thy dominion

endureth for all generations.”



Saul had to travel about 136 miles

when he went from Jerusalem to

Damascus, a. journey of several days.

He was commissioned to seize all per-

sons who belonged to the Way. The

“Way” was the word used to designate

the Christian life, in those times. Prob-

ably it came from the words of Christ,

“lam the Way.” People were talked

to about coming into the Way. It

seems a very happy word to use for

describing the Christian faith. Are

you of the Way? I know a man who

has been in the Way for fifty years.

The Way must be a beautiful life to

live, and so on. I like it, the same

way I/like the term used in early

church times for the Lord’s Supper,

namely, the Eucharist. It means liter-

ally, a meal where you give thanks.

Way, the way of life. Eucharist, a

meal of [brotherhood and thanksgiving.

Good words.





OTICF} that there are slight dis-

, crepancies in the account, which

makes it all the stronger. In this

chapter it says that Paul’s companions

heard the voice, but saw no man.

When Paul was relating the experi—

ence later, as told in the twenty-sec-

ond chapter, it states that the other

members of the party did not hear a

'voice. That is good. It shows that

something happened and that the wit-

nesses do not entirely agree on de-

tails. It may be due, however, to a

difficult passage of Greek, hard to

translate. ,

Notice also that Paul was followed

up. Some One was after him. He

went on "breathing out threatenings

and slaughter,” haling men and wom-

en to prison. Think of it! Throwing

women into the rotten, unlighted east-

ern jails, because they believed thus

and thus about God. But Some One

was following him. He could not get

aWay. “Saul, Saul, why persecutist

thou me?”





SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR

.. MAY 17.





SUBJECT:—-—Saul becomes a Chris-

tian. Acts 9 1 to 19. ,

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as; so reticent!’ And r11 say, 4 ‘Oh,

at}, That’s one of the earlier efforts

*my son, Dirk DeJong.’ ” '



j“ dB‘ut Dirk pulled at his pipe moodily;

i'e'hook his head. “Oh, you don’t know,

'filibther. It’s so damned slow. First

thing you know I’ll be thirty. And

what am I!

more than that—at Hollis’s.”





During his university years Dirk





had seen much of the Arnolds, Eugene

' and Paula, but it sometimes seemed to

Selina that he avoided these meetings

--—-these parties and weekends. She

was content that this should be so, for

she guessed that the matter of money

'held him back. She thought it was





well that he should realize the differ-

ence now. Eugene had his own car—





one of five in the Arnold garage.

Paula, too, had hers. She had been



‘_ one of the first Chicago girls to drive

a gas car; had breezed about Chica-

go’s boulevards in one when she had

been little more than a child in short

skirts. At the wheel she was dexter-

ous, dare-devil, incredibly relaxed. Her

fascination for Dirk was strong. Se-

lina knew that, too. In the last year

or two he had talked very little of

Paula and that, Selina, knew, meant

that he was hard hit.





Sometimes Paula and Eugene drove

out to the farm, making the distance

from their new nortlrshore house to

the DeJong place far south in some

breath-taking number of minutes. Eu-

gene would appear in rakish cap, loose

London coat, knickers, queer brogans

With an English look about them, a

carefully careless looseness about the

hang and fit of his jacket. Paula did

not affect sports clothes herself. She

was not the type, she said. Slim, dark,

vivacious, she wore slinky clothes——

crepes, chiffons. Her feet were slim

in sheer silk stockings and slippers

with buckles. Her eyes were languor-

ous, lovely. She worshipped luxury

and said so.



“I’ll have to marry money,” she de-

clared. “Now that they’ve finished

calling poor Grandpa a beef-baron and

taken I don’t know how many millions

away from him, we’re practically on

the streets.



“You look it!” from Dirk; and there

was bitterness beneath his light tone.



“Well, it’s true. All this silly muck-

raking in the past ten years or more.

Poor Father! Of course Grand-dad

was pur—ty rough, let me tell you. I

read some of the accounts of that last

indictment—the 1910 one—and I must

say I gathered that dear old Aug made

Jesse James look like a philanthropist.





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An' now he is back by the

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isn’t at all likely, the packing industry

is going to spring a leak.”



“Elaborate figure of speech,” mur-

mured Eugene. The four of them—

Paula, Dirk, Eugene, and Selina—were

sitting on the wide screened porch

that Selina had had built at the south-

west corner of the house. Paula was,

of course, in the couch~swing. Occa-

sionally she touched one slim languid

foot to the floor and gave indolent

impetus to the couch.



“It is, rather, isn’t it?

well finish it, then.

been the grand old captain right

through the Vi’age.- Dad’s never been

more than a pretty bum sacond mate.

And as for you. Gene my love, cabin

boy would be, sL’understand me, big."

Eugene had gone into the business a

year before.



“What can you expect,” retorted

Eugene, “of a lad that hates salt pork?

And every other kind of pigs meat?”





Might as

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'As a barefoot boy, in a battered hat,





While he dreamed a wonderful dream!

‘He would fancy himself in the fairyland





Years passed, an’ ensconced in a Wall Street “nook,"

In a building that towered on high, ..



He would think sometimes 0' the ol’ Mill brook,

An' the boy that had been—with a sigh;



The “dreams" he had drempt as a barefoot lad,





Theyhad all “panned out"—or most of ’em had—

An’ his boyhood dreams had come true!

Once the freckle-faced, barefoot boy-—

An' his pulses pounded with joy!





At his desk he had dreamed a golden dream,

0’ the home that his boyhood knew——





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Went with it.





Selina .now: act-.111) unnamed ito‘

the end of the porch- She lucked out

‘ across the fields, shading ’ her \_eyes

“There’s Adam'com-

ing in With the last load for the. days,

he goes down“ with the ship; And it He’ll be driving into town ‘now. Coma



- looks. to me‘ as if the oldboat had a elius started an hour ago...” The Den

pretty strong listfto star-board right Jong farm sent two great loads to the

now. Father "says himself thatunless city now. Selina was contemplating the

a war breaks out, or something, which purchase, of one of the large automo-





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Mill Stream,

the catfish scat!—-—-





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ngs he planned-—

come true, some day!





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life-path plan,





ol’ Mill Stream,

has come true!





bile trucks that would do away with

the plodding horses and save hours of

time on the trip. She went down the

steps now on her way to oversee the

loading of Adam Bras’s wagon. At

the bottom of the steps she turned.

“Why can’t you two stay to supper?

You can quarrel comfortably right

through the meal and drive home in

the cool of the evening.”





"'“I’ll stay,” said Paula, “thanks. If

you’ll have all kinds of vegetables,

cooked and uncooked. The cooked

ones smothered in cream and oozing

butter. Aud let me go out into the

fields and pick ’em myself like Maud

Muller or Marie Antoinette or any of

those make-believe rustic gals.”



In her French-heeled slippers and

her filmy silk stockings she went out

into the rich black furrows of the

fields, Dirk carrying the basket.



“Asparagus,” she ordered first. Then,

“But where is it? Is that itll’





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' «.knlte._'.“13et’s hawe‘radishes, and cord.

and. tomatoes and lettuce and peas ~





and artichokes and-2:”





Illinois.” He “was moraines; . usually





.uncommunicative, and [quite noticeably .

- moody. , ' ' ' '





lo brew?” - - ..

“You didn’t mean that rot, did you?





Paula remarked it; "Why the Othel-





" about marrying a rich man.” .





"Of course I meant it. What other

sort of man do you think I ought to

marry?” He looked at her, silently.

She smiled. “Yes,_wouldn’t I«-make

an ideal bride for a farmer!”



“I’m not a farmer.”



, “Well, architect then. Your job as‘



Vdraughtsman at Hollis & Sprague’s

must pay you all of twenty-five a.

week.”



“Thirty-five,” said Dirk, grimly.

“What’s that got to do with it!"



“Not a thing, darling.” She stuck

out one foot. “These slippers cost

thirty.” _ - ‘



“I won’t be getting thirty-five a week

all my life. You’ve got brains enough

to know that. Eugene wouldn’t be get-

ting "that much if he weren’t the son

of his father.” '



“The grandson of his grandfather,”

Paula corrected him. “And I’m not

so sure he wouldn’t. Gene’s a born

mechanic if they'd just let him\work

at it. He’s crazy about engines and

all that junk. But no—‘Millionaire

Packer’s Son Learns Business from

Bottom Rung of Ladder.’ Picture of

Gene in workman’s oVeralls and cap

in the Sunday papers. He drives to

the ofl‘lce on Michigan at ten and

leaves at four and he doesn’t know a.

steer from a cow when he sees it.”



“I don’t care a damn about Gene.

I’m talking about you. You were jok-

ing, weren’t you?”



“I wasn’t. I’d hate being poor, or

even just moderately rich. I’m used

to money—loads of it. I’m twenty.

four. And I’m looking around.”



He kicked an innocent beet-top with

his boot. “You like me better than

any man you know.”



“Of course I do.



“Well, then!”



“Well, then, let’s take these weg—

gibles in and have ’em cooked in

cream, as ordered.”



She made a pretense of lifting the

heavy basket. Dirk snatched it rough-

ly out of her hand so that she gave a

little cry and looked ruefully down at

the red mark on her palm. He caught

her by the shoulder—even shook her

a little. “Look here, Paula. Do you

mean to tell me you’d marry a man

simply because he happened to have

a lot of money!”



“Perhaps not simply because he had

a lot of money. But it certainly would

be a factor, among other things. Cer~

tainly it would be preferable to a man





Just my luck.”





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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7 years old.”





"‘And you know just hOW black my

’ heart is, don’t you, what? Youxwant,

really, some nice hearty lass who can

tell asparagus from p as when she

sees ’em, and.who’ll 0 er to race you

from here to the kitchen.” ‘



“God‘forbid ! ” ‘



Six months later Paula‘ Arnold was

married to'Theodore A. Storm, 3. man

of fifty, a friend‘ of her father’s, head

of so many companies, stockholder in

so many banks, director of so many

corporations that even old Aug Hem-

pel seemed a recluse from business in

comparison. She never called him

Teddy. No one ever did. Theodore

Storm was a large man—not exactly

stout, perhaps, but flabby. His inches

saved him from grossness. He had a

large white serious face, fine thick

dark hair, graying at the temples, and

he dressed very well except for a

leaning toward rather efliminate ties.

He built for Paula a town house on

the Lake Shore drive in the region

known as the Gold Coast. The house

leoked like a restrained public library.

There was a country place beyond

Lake Forest far out on the ,north

shore, sloping down to the lake and

surrounded by acres and acers of fine.

woodland, expertly parked. There



'were drives, ravines, brooks, bridges,

hothouses, stables, a race-track, gar-o

dens, fairies, fountains, bosky paths,

keeper’s cottage (twice the size of Se-

lina’s farmhouse). Within three years

Paula had two children, a boy and a

girl. “There! That’s done,” she said.

Her marriage was a great mistake and

she knew it. For the war, coming in

1914, a few months after her wedding,

sent the Hempel-Arnold interests sky-

rocketing. Millions of pounds of Amer-

ican beef and pork were shipped to

Europe. In two years the Hempel for-

tune was greater than ‘it ever had

been. Paula was up to her eyes in

relief work for Bleeding Belgium. All

the Gold Coast was. The Beautiful

Mrs. Theodore A. Storm in her Gift

Shop Conducted for the Relief of Bleed-

ing Belgium.



Dirk had not seen her in months.

She telephoned him unexpectedly one

Friday afternoon in his office at Hollis

& Sprague’s.



“Come out and spend Saturday and

Sunday with us, won’t you? VVe’re run-

ning away to the country this after-

noon. I’m so sick of Bleeding Belgium,

you can’t imagine. I’m sending the

children out this morning. I can’t get

away so early. I’ll call for you in the

roadster this afternoon at four and

drive you out myself.”





“I am going to spend the week—end

with Mother. She’s expecting me.”



“Bring her along.”



“She wouldn’t come.

doesn’t enjoy all

servitor stuff.”



“011, but we live quite simply out

there, really. Just sort of rough. Do

come, Dirk. I’ve got some plans to

talk over with you How’s the

job?”



“Oh, good enough. There’s very lit-

tle building going on, you know.”



“Will you come?”



“I don’t think 1—”

“I’ll call for you at four. I’ll be at

the curb. Don’t keep me waiting, will

you? The cops fuss so if you park in





You know she

that velvet-footed





[the Loop] after four.”





RUN along!” said Selina, when he

“ , called her on the farm telephone.

It-ll do you good. You’ve been as





grumpy as a gander fbr'weeks. How.





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I handsome old-fashioned three-story-

and-basement house in Deming Place.

:He used the front room- as a living

room. the alcove as a bedroom. He

and Selina had furnished it together,





discarding all of ~ the room’s original ‘





belongings except the bed, a table, and

one fat comfortable faded old armchair

whose brocade surface hinted a past

grandeur. When he; had got his books

ranged in open shelves'along one wall,

soft~shaded lambs on table and desk,

the place looked more than livable;

lived in. During the process of fur-

nishing Selina got into the way of com-

ing into town for a day or two to

prowl the auction rooms and the sec-

ond-hand stores. She had a genius for

this sort of thing; hated the spick-and-

span varnish and veneer of the new

furniture to be got in the regular way.





“Any piece of furniture, I don’t care

how beautiful it is, has got to be

lived with, and kicked about, and rub-

bed down, and mistreated by servants,

and repolished, and knocked around

and dusted and sat on or slept in or

eaten off of before it develops its real

character,” Selina said. “A good deal

like human beings. I’d rather have

--my old maple table, mellow with age

and rubbing, that Purvus’s father put

together himself by hand seventy

years ago, than all the mahogany lib-

rary slabs on W’abash Avenue.”





She enjoyed these rare trips into

town; made a holiday of them. Dirk

would take her to the theatre and she

would sit entranced. Her feeling for

this form of entertainment was as

fresh and eager as it had been in the

days of the Daly Stock Company when

she, a little girl, .had been seated in

the parquet with her father, Simon

Peake. Strangely enough, considering

the lack of what the world calls ro-

mance and adventure in her life, she

did not like the motion pictures. “All

the difference in the world,” she would

say, “between the movies and the





thrill I get out of a play at the theatre.





My, yes! Like fooling with paper

dolls when you could be playing with





'a real live baby.”





She developed a. mania for nosing

into strange corners of the huge

sprawling city; seemed to discover a

fresh wonder on each visit. In a short

time she was more familiar with Chi-

cago than was Dirk—~for that matter,

than old Aug Hempel who had lived

in it for over half a century but never

had gone far afield in his pendulum

path between the yards and his house,

his house and the yards.





The things that excited her about

Chicago did not seem to interest Dirk

at all. Sometimes she took a vacant

rdom for a day or two in Dirk‘s board-

ing house. “Vl'hat do you think!” she

would say to him breathlessly, when

he returned from the office in the

evening. “I’ve been way over on the

northwest side. It’s another world.

It’s—it’s Poland. Cathedrals and shops

and men sitting in restaurants all day

long reading papers and drinking cof—

fee and playing dominoes or some-

thing like it. And what do you think

I found out? Chicago‘s got the second

largest Polish population of any city

in the world. In the world!”



“Yeh?” Dirk would reply, absently.



There was nothing absent-minded

about his tone this afternoon as he

talked to his mother on the telephone.

“Sure you don’t mind? Then I’ll be

out next Saturday. Or I may run out

in the middle of the week to stayover

night



“I’m fine.’ Be sure and remember

all about Paula’s new house so’s you

Julie says it’s

like the kind you read of in the novels.

She says old Aug saw it just once and

now won’t go near. it even to visit his

grandchildren.”



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fParis walked in black. America, all!

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walked demurely‘in the gloom of crepe

and chiffon; black hats. black gloves,

black slippers. »»Only black was "good”

this year; ~~ , -





Paula: did *‘not wear black well. She

was a shade too sallow'forthese som-





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from the source of supply to the

more manual labor than any other

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twenty pounds.

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you still in Deming Place?”





He was still in Deming Place. He

climbed into the seat beside her—a

feat for the young and nimble. Theo-

dore Storm neyer tried to double his

bulk into the jack-knife position nec-

essary to riding in his wife’s roadster.

The car was built for speed, not com-

fort. One sat flat with the length of

one's legs stretched out. Paula’s feet,

pedalling brake and clutch so expertly,

were inadequately clothed in sheer





 





patent-leather slippers.





“You’re not dressed warmly enough.”

her husband would have said. “Those

shoes are idiotic for driving.” And he



‘would have been right.



Dirk said. nothing.



Her manipulation of the wheel was

witchcraft. The roadster slid in and

out of traflic like a fluid thing, an

enamel stream, silent as a swift cur-

rent in a river. “Can’t‘let her out

here,” said Paula. “Wait till We get

past Lincoln Park. Do you suppose



they’ll ever get rid of this terrible Rush

Street bridge?” When his house was

reached, “I’m coming up," she said.

“I suppose you haven’t any tea?”



“Gosh, no! What do you think I

am! A young man in an English

novel?” '



“Now, don’t be provincial and Chi~

cago—ish, Dirk.” They climbed the

three flights of stairs. She looked





 





 





 





about. Her glance was not disapprov-

fo‘ - ing. “This isn’t so bad. Who did it?

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900 South Wabash Ave., Chicago am, you ought to have your own smart

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neatness of Wilmette and Winnetka.

She negotiated expertly the nerve—rack-

ing curves of the Hubbard Woods hills,

then maintained a fierce and steady

speed for the remainder of the drive.





"We call the place Stormwood,”

Paula told ‘him. “And anybody out-

side the dear family knows how fitting

that is. Don’t scowl. I’m not going to





tell you my martial woes. And don’t

you say I asked for it. How’s

the_ job?”



“Rotten.”



“You don’t like it? The work?”





“I like it well enough, only—well, _

you see we leave the university archi-





tectural course thinking we’re all going

to be Stanford Whites or Cass Gilberts,

tossing off a. Woolworth building and

making ourselves famous overnight.

I’ve spent all yesterday and to—day

planning how to work in space for

toilets on every floor of the new office

building, six stories high and shaped

like a drygoods box, thats going up





on the corner of Milwaukee Avenue

and Ashland, west.”





“And ten years from now?"

“Ten yearsfrom now maybe they’ll





let me do the plans for the drygoods

' box all alone.”





“Why don’t you’drop it?”





He was startled. “Drop it! How





do you mean?"





“Chuck it. Do something that will





bring you quick results. This isn’t an

age of waiting. Suppose, twenty years

from now, you do plan a grand Gothic

oflice’ building to grace this new and

glorified Michigan Boulevard they’re

always shouting about!

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They turned. in at the gates of,





Stormwood. Though the trees and

bushes were gaunt and bare the grass

already showed stretches of vivid

green." In the fading light one caught





glimpses through the shrubbery of the

It was dazzling sapphire

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A house,

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opened as they drew up at the en-

A maid in cap and apron

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coming

greeted

Paula ciVily and drove the car off. The

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bag,” said Paula. “How’re the babies,

Anna? ~Has Mr. Storm got. here?”

“He telephoned, Mrs. Storm. He

says he won’t be out till late——— maybe

ten or after.

‘wait dinner.”

Paula, from being the limp, expert,

fearless driver of the high-powered

roadster was now suddenly very much

the mistress of the house, quietly ob—

servant, giving and order with a lift

of the eyebrow or a nod of the head.

Would Dirk like to go to his room at

once? , Perhaps he’d like to look at the

babies before they went to sleep for

the night, though the nurse would

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Everything was very informal

They roughed it; (Dirk ,had

counted thirteen servants by noon the

next day. .

His room, when he reached it, he

thought pretty awful. A great square

chamber with narrow leaded windows,

deep-set, on either side. .From one he

could get a_ glimpse of the lake,“ but

only a glimpse. Evidently the family

bedrooms were the lake rooms. In

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had the best but evidently among these

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The Big, Deep-Bodied Hens with the Large

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This mating originated from a pen of 600 yearling liens selected from 7,000 breeders. This

pen of 000 yearlings averaged 200



The offspring of this selection were again carefully selected for type and egg production qual-

ities and are now mated to 160 males from hens with 270-egg record parents stock and sired by

a male from a SOD-egg record lien in 305 days.





Chicks





very profitable hens to their owners.





"Special ReducedPrices "





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but was not pampered.





but rather sensible. His bag had been

brought up, unpacked, and , stowed

away in a closet before he reached

his room.

ina,” he thought, grinning. He looked

about the room, critically. It was done

in a style that he vaguely defined as

French. It’gave him'the feeling that

he had stumbled accidently into the

chamber of a Recamier and could’nt

get out. Rose brocade with gold net

and cream lace and rosebuds. “Swell

place for a man,” he thought, and

kicked a rootstock—a fautepil he sup-

posed it was called, and was secretly

glad that he could pronounce it fault-

lessly. Long mirrors, silken hanging,

cream walls. The bed was lace hung.

The coverlet was rose satin, feather-

light. He explored his bathroom. It

actually was a room, much larger than

his alcove bedroom on Deming Place

—as large as his own bedroom at home

on the. farm. The bath was done daz-

zlingly in blue and white. The tub

was enormous and as solid as if the

house had been built around it.

(Continued next week).





 





 





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Doings in

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ITTLE Willie Woodchuck and

-Mikie Muskrat had been playing

down by the creek. Just before

they went out to play, their mothers

had dressed them each in a clean pair

of overalls. Now as they came back

home their clean suits were muddy

and dirty, yes, very dirty, indeed.

There were big ugly mud spots all

over the knees and by the seat of

those same overalls it looked as if

they had tried to see how soft a mud

pie might be as a cushion.

“You naughty Woodchuck,” scolded

Mother Woodchuck as soon as she





 





Robin Redbreast Had Built Her Nest

of Mud and Dried Grass.





saw Little Willie. “Look at your clean

roveralls! How dirty they are!”



Little Willie Woodchuck hung his

head and little Mikie hung his, too, for

Mikie , knew that Mother Muskrat

would scold him the very same way

when she saw him.



Just then Mother Woodchuck, spied

Robin Redbreast flying to her brand

new nest she was building in the ma-

“Now, there’s Robin Red-

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chuck and Mikie Muskrat both looked

at sleek Robin Readbreast.



“But Robin Redbreast wasn’t playing

in the mud as we were. Mikie and I

were making mud pies 'down by the

creek, and I fell down on one,” said

Willie, still trying to brush the brown

stain from his otherwise clean over-

alls.



“But Robin Redbreast has been play-

ing in mud all day, and look! Her red

vest has not a. speck of mud on it,

and her brown coat is spotless,” said

Mother Woodchuck.



“But why was Robin Redbreast play-

ing in the mud?” asked Mikie. “I never

knew birds played in the mud.”



“Just see!” said Mother Woodchuck

pointing to Robin Redbreast who was

flying back to the nest she was build—

ing. “Robin Redbreast has been build-

ing her nest there in the maple tree

today. She has carried all that mud

and dried grass, and yet she is as

spieand span as ever.” '



“Do birds build their nests of mud,

Mother?” asked Willie.



“Yes, Robin Redbreast builds her

nest nearly all of mud and she has no

little shovel like you have when you

play in the mud. She mixes in the

dried grass to make it more firm,” said

Mother Woodchuck.



Willie Woodchuck and Mikie Musk-

rat carefully examined the Robin’s

newly built nest when she was away.

When they saw what Robin Redbreast

had done they were very much asham-

ed of their dirty overalls.



“Next time we play in the mud we

will try to be like Robin Redbreast,

Mother, and not get so dirty,” said

Willie Woodchuck as he and Mikie

Muskrat started off to play with their

wagon.



The birds teach us many lessons if

we only study their habits.





It was a new

angle for Dirk. He thought it startling





“Have to tell that to Sel-





, -- PRICES GRADE A MATING. ‘

Per 50 Per l00 Per l000

$7.00 $I4.00 $130.00



GRADE B MATING.



The stock that produces our Grade B Chicks are carefully selected females mated to cockerels

from ancestry of 175 to 200 egg record in their millet year, and were sired by males from liens

with egg records of 245 in their millet year. .



These were formerly listed as our “Extra Selecte ” and are now mated to males of

known egg records.



These chicks will develop into profitable layers and we have thousands of satisfied customers

who have purchased this grade for many years.



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Per I00

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Per 25 ‘





For 500

$3. 75





$87.50





Per 25 Per 50 Per 500





$52.50



GRADE C MATING.



The chicks oil'cred from Grade (‘ Mating are from breed-

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of 200 good hens and are some of the finest specimens pro‘

duccd. but have no omcial egg records from either the sire or

duni side. These chicks will make a good commercial flock

for good production.





Per l000

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Per 25 Per 50 Per l00 Per 500 Per l000

$2.50 $4.50 $9.00 $45.00 $85.00





100% Safe Arrival Guaranteed.mShipped by parcel post

paid to your door.——You will be licneiltted by our 15 years"

breeding this type of Leghorns.~Aiso the many years of or

pericnce hatrhing and shipping chicks.



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brings big returns in our customers hands. Order direct

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TERMS: i0% with order. balance just before chicks are

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Strong, sturdy. Newtown hatched chicks. pmduced on our own

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lywood strain S. (3. White Leghorns. Sheppard's Anconas. direct

from Sheppard Farm. Shipped postpaid. 100% live delivery

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White and Brown Leghorns, Anconao 50 mo 500 NW

Selected Mating ................................................. $5.00 3 9.00 $40.00 3 75

Extra Selected Mating .................................... 56.00 “.00 50.00 95

Barred Rocks ................ . ................................ 7.00 l3.00 60.00 l20

Mixed chick: or broilers ......................... , .............. 4.00 8.00 40.00 80





Price. After June i5. lc leu.

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





 





 





 





 





 





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. New prices on selected first grade chicks. These chicks from flocks

-which represent year: of breeding for egg production and perfection. re-

sulting in some of the finest birds in this section of the country. Better

grade chicks have the strength and vigor needed to stand the summer



' heat: also develop quickly, into heavy winter layers. (‘ulled thoroughly

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low prices.

. C. White chhorns. per 100..$11.00 Anconas ................ per 100 $12.00

Single Comb Buti' Leghorns, pcr S. (‘. Rhoda Is. Reds, per 100 13.00

100 ........................... 10.00 Barrcd itocks ........... per 100 1.1.00

H. L. CARL. Box No. Montgomery. Mich.





Chicks $7.00 per 100 and up.

bred. heavy laying flecks.





REDUCED PRICES‘.





From good. pm





100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. Postpaid prices 25 50 100 600 1000

English White Leghorns. Brown Leghorns .................. $3.00 $5.50 $10 $47.50 $ 90

Barred Rocks. S. & R. C. Reds ............................. 3.50 6.25 12 57.50 110

Mixed Chicks. 50. $4: 100. $7 straight. Heavy Mixed. 50. $5.50: 100, 39 straight. Order right

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ILLINOIS





 





Eggs (‘hicks (‘hicks Chicks Chicks

100 50 100 500 1000



White Leghorns. Anconas ....... . ......... S 7.00 s 7.75 $l5.50 375.00 ”47.50

Barred, Buff. White Rocks. Reds ......... . 0 8.75 l7.50 85.00 "55.00

W. Wyandottcs. Burr Orps ................. 9.00 9.00 ”3.00 87.50 ”0.00

White Orpingtons ........................ I0.00 9.50 l9.00 92.50 .....

Light Brahmas ........................... "1.00 l0.00 20.00 97.50 . . . . .

WALNUT RIDGE HATCHERY. BOX E-6, BUTLER. ILLINOIS





Mrs. Dorothea Rainey. Manager. (Secretary Illinois Baby Chick Association).





 





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by the Poultry Department Ohio

State University. Prize winners at

many shows from National down.

Developed for high egg production

for many years. Free range flocks in

best of health. $10070 live delivery.

Thirteen breeds. Catalog free. Prices

low. quality considered.





Heluats Chick Hatchery. Box BM, Holpats, Ohio





Barred Rock Baby Chicks





We hatch only Barred Rock Chicks from



choice selected stock shipped by pre-



paid parcel post to your door, satisfac-



tion and a live delivery guaranteed.

CIRCULAR ON REQUEST



R RTHE KAZOO HATCHERY C0.





Kalamazoo, Mich





L-O-O-K





 





 





 





 





 





 





ROBABLY your hall is quite small,

and has at last three doors open-

ing from it, and a. flight of stairs





_ to be fitted in somewhere; not much





chance of making it look interesting.

but you can make it a cheerful spot,

never let it be a dull one. First of all,

it wants some color in it.



The walls should not be dark red or

brown, or even that soft deep ‘gray

green you may have in mind as “use-

ful.” Leave such colors for spacious

halls with plenty of light. Have your

walls cream, yellow, or even a pretty

shade of light blue, and then you can

have dark painted or stained wood:





' work to show it up. Whether the walls





are painted, papered or what not, the

small hall must be light.



Your floor covering may be stained

boards, linoleum, or any one of the

many commercial floor coverings. But

with the two first-mentioned those gay

oval rush mats are the best things for

bringing in a. splash of color. One in





 





Let a Mirror, Hall-table and a Chair.

Comprise Your Hall Furniture.

yellow, blue and green, would be a.



good choice with cream walls.



You can buy a. plain square umbrella

stand and place it in the most incon-

spicuous corner. The old-fashioned

hall—stand always had a. mirror and

you surely should have a mirror, but

not the old-fashioned stand. A’plain

oval or oblong one, framed in wood to

match the umbrella stand, is much

better taste than an “oxydized” one.

If at all possible, hang it opposite the

principal source of light, and by re-

flection it will make your hall seem

very much brighter than before.



And now you most likely have room

for a. “hall chair,” but all the same I

would not buy one if you have not one

already. Who sits on them? You





Can shin chick- of high undo qua-lit! It 00“- Bum , don’t, your family does not, and most





Rocks. Reds. White Rocks, 14c each. Wyandotteu. Bufl'

Orpingtons, Bufi' Rocks. 15590. White, Brown Leg-

horns. llc. Anconss, 12%(1. Mixed heavies. 12c.

Mixed light breeds, Sc. May chicks $1.00 per 100

less. June chix $2. 00 less. Order direct from this adv.

If less than 100 is wanted add d35c extra. Hatching

eggs. Free circular tells about 15 first class varieties.

Lawrence Hatchery. R. 7. Grand Rapids. Michigan.





 





GLASS A CHICKS: PULLETS.





Big. husky chicks from heavy layers.

6. C. English White and Brown Leg-

horns 10c Anconas. 11c. Barred

“ Rocks and Reds, 18c. Assorted. 8c. No

money down. Pay ten days before

chicks are shipped. 100% live deniery.

Postage paid. Catalog free. THE BUS

HATCHERY, R. 2- M, Iceland. Mich.





 





 





CHICKS Barred Rock. Eckhard

Strain. White Indian!

and Brown Leghorns. Guarantee full 100%

dive. Free Delivery. HILLVIEW PODI-

TRV ls HATCHERV, c. BOVEN, From.

I. IZ-B. HOLLAND MICHIGAN.





WHI'I'I'AKER’S TRAPNESTED REDS





Both Combs. Michigan's Greatest Color and Egg

Chicks end E :11 from Vigorous, Hardy Stock.

18th Annual C alog is yours for the asking.





 





-' lllTERLAKEI FARM. Box 39. Lawrence. 111.11.





 





certainly your guests do not. If you

must have a. chair in the hall, see that

it is very plain.



A small hall-table is always conven-

ient; one with a. drawer that you can

keep shoes, etc., in when you are in a

hurry. One of plain dark oak, oblong

in shape-about two feet by fifteen

inches, is a good size. Such a table

should have no cover and no ornament

save a. bowl of flowers, and that is

where you can bring in another bit of

color. Get a gaily colored bowl.





Pictures, if any, should be? black and

white sketches or etchings, or else





bright colored prints—don’t mix them.

Neverhave big pictures in the hall,

two or three- small ones, are better.

You may have a little. window that

needs curtains, but do not shut out all

the light.





Why not make curtains of





 





 





Just In31de

Your. Hall Maéer t/ze E'rrz‘ Impression on Y our Guests—~11 12‘ Favoraé/e?





 





 





plain net? It gives you privacy, Yet





admits the maximum of daylight. In





orange, or leaf green, it will just suit

your hall.



Have as few things” as possible in

the small hall.——-Julia. Wolfe.





 





WAR ON grouse Fur-:s'unceo'

FOR SPRING. '





 





OW or Never” should be the mat-



to of every housewife, in these

balmy days of spring, in regard to

killing house flies, one of the most

annoying, disagreeable, and unsanitary

household insects, and a. carrier of ty-

phoid fever and other diseases.



On the farm, most of the flies breed

around.the barns. This ,fact can be

capitalized in poisoning them. An ef-

fective poison can be made and paint-

ed or swabbed on the side of the barn.

Flies will then be killed in enormous

quantities. A good poison can be made

for this purpose by mixing one table-

spoonful of lead arsenate, white arse-

nic, or Paris green with one pint syrup.



Fly “traps are also effective if the

proper bait is used. The most attrac-

tive bait for a fly trap is bread and

milk slightly sweetened with sugar. ~



Of all the poisons for killing flies,

formaldehyde is probably the best of

all. By diluting a. cup of milk with a.

cup of water, sweetening with a little

brown sugar, and adding two table-

spoons of ordinary commercial formal-

dehyde, a. very attractive and highly

poisonous dope is made for flies, but it

should be kept away from children.



An effective, self-feeding poisoner

can be made by filling a glass tumbler





our Door





full of this some poison, then placing





a. piece pf blotting paper on a saucer

and inverting the saucer over the tum-





'bler, and finally, holding the saucer





downtightly. Quickly turning the tum-

bler over.

feed out into the saucer.





 





WOMEN. OF NO POISE LOSE OUT.





THIS YEAR.





 





r





O NLY a well-poised woman can look

smart in the feminine wearing ap-

parel in vogue this season.



This apparently discouraging state-

ment comes from clothing specialists

at Ohio State University in explaining

the difficulties which arise in fitting

the present styles to the average wom-

an. They explain that while all forms

cannot be perfect, an effort on the

part of the individual will do much to

correct round shoulders and other in-

correct postures.



To be well dressed this” spring we

are told to study our silhouettes. It

is important that the garment fit close-

ly across the shoulders and that there

be a. simple straight line from the

shoulders to the hem of the skirt.



“Good posture is essential for good

looks ”as well as for good health. The

slouching figure with hollow chest and

round shoulders cannot disguise her





poor posture in the garments now in*





style. The woman who stands and

walks well, with chest high and head





'up, may look beautiful in the simplest





type of frock because of-her poise.



“A good foundation upon which to

place our clothing is the first essen-

tial to smart dressing ”





Farm Women haVC Inning

At t/ze W aman J World Fazr





HE farm women of America——



the mothers of the nation’s lead-



ers, past and present, were rep-

resented at the Woman’s World’s Fair

at Chicago, April 18-25, The Woman’s

World’s Fair was inaugurated to show

the progressof woman in business, in-

dustry, social service, and education,

and exhibits of women’s achievements

were presented from all parts of the

world.



Miss Inez Harden; of Sunflower

county, Mississippi, who was adjudged

America’s healthiest girl at the 4‘H

National Club Congress last Decem-

ber; Veva Divan, who is Wisconsin’s

State Pig Club and Home Economics

Champion, and Miss Beulah Rodgers,

of Eddyville, Iowa, National Canning.

Champion, are the three girls who

were at the fair with their leader, Miss

Maude E. NValla‘ce, Assistant Home

Demonstration Agent, North Carolina.



The exhibit in which they appeared,

the largest educational booth at the

Woman’s Worlds’ Fair, was presented

to the National Committee on Boys’

and Girls’Club \Vork, by Montgomery

Ward & Company, for the purpose of

adequately showing to the visitors at

the Woman’s World’s Fair the value

of Boys’ and Girls’ Club Work and

what it is doing for the American

women in rural districts.





Were it not for the farm women of

the nation, we would soon fall into

decline, for the number of children in

rural districts is one-third greater than

an equal portion of population. Upon

the farm women of the nation de-

volves the task of rearing and educat-

ing the great national leaders. ' There

are more than half a million rural boys





   





 





and girls between the ages of ten and

eighteen in 4-H Club Work. They are

meeting in local clubs in every section

of the country, and are learning the

best methods of farm and home mak-

ing, through p1ojects in agriculture

and home economics.



The work is organized by the Ex-

tension Departments of the State Ag—

ricultural Colleges, the United States

Department of Agriculture cooperat-





 





How to Make Dress Forms is Only



One of the Things 4~H Girls Learn. '

ing. Through local, state, sectional,

and national contests, our rural youth,

following their goal of the fourfold

development of the head, heart, hand

and health, is learning to work, to





play and think as a group and to be-.

come aware of their special responsi- "





bility for the future of American ag-

riculture, which is noticeably changing





 





The solution will gradually





 





the character of American run; “361‘ »—.=





 





 





 





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0 Use this do eminent to help solve

your househo d problems. Address

our letter to Martha Cole, Michigan



; _ er, Detroit, Mich.





 





PRESERVlNG EGGS.





. As I have heard ' that water glass

‘ was good for keeping eggs, could you

please tell 'me how to use, and also

how long it will keep them ?—Mrs. E. S.





Poultry specialists tell us that the

spring and summer eggs are the best

for packing. They will keep better

than eggs produced later in the year.



To preserve them ‘in water glass,

mix thoroughly one and a half quarts

of commercial water glass solution,

which may be obtained at any drug

store, with eighteen quarts of boiled

water. Pack clean eggs in anearthen~

ware jar. Two six-gallon, or three

four-gallon jars being sufficient to pre-

serve thirty dozen eggs. Cover the

eggs with the water galss solution

until the solution is at least two inch-

es above the tops of the eggs. Cover

the jars to prevent evaporation, and

keep in a cool place.





 





 





PREVENT PATENT LEATHER

FROM CRACKING.





Could you tell me which way to

clean patent leather shoes so they

won’t crack up?——C. K.





To keep your patent leather shoes

from cracking, rub them each time

after wearing them, with a very small

amount of vaseline. Before putting

your shoes on, see that the leather is

warm. When patent leather is cold it

cracks more readily.





 





CANOIED CITRON AND ORANGE

PEEL.





 





Please tell me how I can makecanv'

dieéi orange peel like you buy—Mrs.

J. . '





Cut the orange peel in long one-

fourth-inch wide strips, using the

kitchen scissors for this purpose. Place

in a saucepan, add a little cold water

and bring to the boiling point. Drain

off the liquid and add cold water and

repeat the process of boiling and

draining three times in all.



After draining off the liquid the

third time, measure the orange peel

and to every cupful add one cupful of

sugar and sufficient hot water to cover.

Cook until the white of the skin is

translucent. Then remove from the

syrup, roll in granulated sugar, place

on plates to dry. When thoroughly

dry, pack in boxes between pieces of

oiled paper.





 





LARD HAS BECOME RANCID.





Two years ago I rendered my lard,

but haven’t needed it. Now it is a.

bit yellow and smells a little. What

can I do with it to make it good? Can

Javelle water be made in an aluminum

or granite kettle? Does it hurt the

hands if it gets in contact with them?

What kind of kettle should soap be

made in?——Miss H. S.



To clarify your lard that has become

rancid, if you will heat it hot, and

. then add two or three halves of raw



potatoes to it, and let them brown, but



not burn, it Will remove this rancid

taste.

It is best not to make Javelle water

in an aluminum dish, as it discolors

' this sort of ware. Neither is it best

to get this on the hands, as it is too

harsh for them. It should be diluted

when used for cleaning.

Soap should be made in either an

iron or a granite kettle.





:





APPETIZING EATS FOR SPRING.





 





Green and White Salad.

This toothsome salad is available to

‘ nearly every family that lives on the





farm and will prove to- be an appetite

coaxer.

2 cups cottage cheese





1% cup minced 'water

cress





The young onionsv of the garden

may also be used. Blend these ingred-

ients well and form patties and serve

on a lettuce leaf.

improves it.





Dandelion Salad '





1 tsp. alt

1 tb. illegal-

2 hard-boiled 0888





2 tb. minch sweet

onions





Bacon

1 qt. iinelv chopned



dandelions (uncooked) -—

’ 1 tb. sugar



Fry the grease out of the bacon, and

while hot pour over it the dandelions.

Then add remaining ingredients and

mix well. Pour over all any good salad

dressing.

New York Salad.





4 slices pineapple 2 oranges



1A. cup celery Lettuce



95 cup nuts



Arrange slices of pineapple on nests

of lettuce. Cut celery into slender

strips one and one~half inches long

and mix with nut meats. Pile in cen-

ter of pineapple and garnish with four

sections of orange, free from mem-

brane, laid symetrically in center of

pineapple. Serve with mayonnaise.





A dash of paprika? w





 





. . fly

From, Pure-bred

. Blood Tested

Stock

We are Bred for Size

.and Egg Production





Our \abllity to lay at an early age means

increased profits through a long life of

faithful service. Our blood will prove its





   





 

 

 





 





w rth . in the care of poultry ralsers. ()ur I ‘

My olilolal record, 274 one: 0 , , My ofllclal record. 200 out

- chicks from blood tested stock cost no more -

m 365 days. at 3 years of than other chicks. In 365 days. ,





All our breeding stock





 

 

 

 





 





age. has been tested for Bacillary White Diarrhea,



Prices (postpaid) on 50 100 500 1000

SelectcB. P. Rocks 8: R. I. Reds ........... . .. . $6.50 $12.00 $60.00 $115.00

Extra Select B. P. Rocks in R. I. Beds .......... ........ ......... 7.50 14.00 70.00 135.00



. P. Rocks & W. Wyandottes .................. 8.60 16.00 .. ..

Utility and Eng. Barron S. C. W. Leghorns. ......... . 6.50~ 11.00 55.00 110.00

Tancred American S. C. w. Leghorns .................. .......... ..... 7.50 14.00 70.00 136.00

Mixed (‘hicks (all ileav'les). 810 straight. Mixed Chicks (all varieties). $9 straight. Order right from this

ad. for prompt attention. 100% like delivery. Our experience and reputation is your guarantee. Pallets





-—8 weeks to maturity.





MILAN HATCHERY, Box 4, Milan, Michigan





 





 

 





iD OWN S $20300?





1 33 2 Eritrymstrzra'. racist. ”saint”.scream: llama 1 925

HIGH QUALITY WHITE LEGHORNS





this local business we have built up a reputation tor

Tllzlt has brought us results over a much larger field than we had antici ated. We now make the! following





     





prices. 100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. Postpaid. Rot, Romeo Saving. Bank. Romeo, Michigan.



F”? Dl'Iin‘rl‘ May 15! 00 May 15th. Postpaid 25 50 100 500 1000

Tom Barron Sclm'ted White Leghorns .............................. $3.50 $6.50 $13.00 $02.50 $120

For Delivery May 18th to June lst .................................. 3.25 0.00 11.50 55.00 100

For Delivery after June lst ........................................ 2.75 5.00 9.00 42.50 85





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





 





Snow Jelly Cake.





3% cup butter 2 cups sugar

2 eggs ‘79, cup sweet milk

3 tsp. baking powder

Red raspberry or our

rant jelly





2 cups sifted flour

1 large tart apple

1 orange



1 tsp. vanilla





W. A. Downs Poultry Farm,





GHIX





Catalog Free.

Box 104, Washington, Michigan





 





 

 

 





We make no extravagant claims. We. know you want GOOD CHICKS and

that is just what we will furnish you. from good, bred—to-lay. pureTbred

flocks. carefully selected. Our business has been built up by having satisfied





. customers. 100‘] Live Delivery. Postpaid tips on 2' 50 100 500 1000 .

Cream together the butter and one Iwnne. Brown 5nd Burr chhorns ........ PM”. ................ $4300 $0.00 $10 $07.50 3130

. _ ai'l'ed Rocks ............................................. . 4.2V 0.50 12 72.00 H”

cup 0f the sugar, fldd the egg yolks, “'llite Rocks, liulf Rocks ................................. 5.00) 6.50 12 80.00 155

and beat, up untll llght, add the mllk’ lthodelsllllld ltcds ........................................... 4.25 0.50 12 72.00 140

5% dlsmunt on orders for 500. 10% discount on orders for 1000 and over. Rot. Branch





and the flour to which the baking-

powder has been added; add the juice

and grated rind of orange. Beat up

and bake in two layers.



To serve, spread with the jelly, and

heap up on top the apple-whip. To

make this grate the large, tart apple.

Whip until stiff the whites of the eggs,

fold in gradually the sugar and the

apple. Beat up until very white and

light, and flavor with the vanilla or

orange.





 





 

 





County Savings Bank. Order right from this ad.





COLDWATER HATCHERY. BOX 53. COLDWATER. MICHIGAN-





 





 





Great

flocks.





Winter Layers. Pure-bred. high quality





I

Reduced Prices or these good mm... NOW when they





will do the best.





 

 





100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. Postpaid. prices 25 50 100 500 1000

White and Brown Lclzhorns, ADPOIIZIS .......... $3.00 $5.25 $10.00 $47.50 3 90

Barred Rocks and ltcds .. . . . . .. .. . . . . . .. 3.75 11.75 13.00 62.50 120

Assorted Mixed .............................. 2.50 4.25 8.00 40.00 80

Extra Select Std-l: $1 per 100 IiigIlt'l'. 8 Weeks Pullcts. write for prices. Bank

Itoforcnce. There is no risk. Get our (‘ontcst Circular.



6. ZEELAND. MICHIGAN..





WINSTROM POULTRY FARM. BOX C-





 





Rhubarb Sauce for Hot Puddings.





 





2 tb. butter 5%; cup boiling water

5% tb. butter 1 tb. cornstarch, or

5% tsp. rhubarb juice 1% tb. flour





1A; cup sugar



Mix sugar With corn starch, add wa-

ter gradually, cook until thick and

transparent. Add butter and juice.

This is good with bread pudding.





 





OLD ORDER IS UPSET BY NEW

PICNIC PLAN.





ID you ever go to a picnic Where

everybody brought hard-boiled





our: MlLLlON“GOOp ‘LucKi’elhaiz





 

 





   

 





LEADING BREEDS, ~ ~ LOWEST PRICES !





REDUCED ROCK BOTTOM PRICES MAY 4th T0 SEPT. lat. THOUSANDS OF

PLEASED CUSTOMERS TESTIFY TO THEIR WONDERFUL QUALITY. TYPE.

BEAUTY AND EGG PRODUCTION. Scnd for our BIG, BEAUTIFUL. COLORED.

INSTRUCTIVE ART BOOK. FREE, showing our own birds in their NATURAL COL-

ORS. chd the many testimonials full of llrillstls which llluhlr irldnrse our Chicks.

Before you buy elsewhere see these illustrations of the actual birds that produce the

eggs. WE GUARANTEE OUR BIRDS FREE FROM NEW EUROPEAN AND

URI-IE)? DISEASES. 100% Live Delivery Postpaid. Bank llef., Mom. I. B. C. A.

am lio ‘. A.





ALL LEADING VARIETIICS Prices now 25 50 00 300 500 1000

V‘Vhlte. Brown & Buff Legllorns. Anconas ...................... $2.50 $4.75 $ 0.00 $25.50 $42 3 80

Barred & White Rocks. R. I. Reds ............................. 3.25 (5.00 11.50 33.00 52 100

Bi. Minorca. \Vll. “'y‘undotte, \\'ll. & Bull Ol‘pingtou .......... 3.75 7.00 13.50 30.00 02 120

Buff & Wh. Minorca. Sil. Wyandotte. S. Sussex ................ 5.00 9.00 17.00 48.00 80



LL Brahma. GOI. VVyandotte, 20c each. Light Mixed, 100. :58. Heavy Mixed. 100. $0.50.



NEUHAUSER HATCHERIES. BOX 62, ‘ NAPOLEON, OHIO.





 





eggs, and some Vitamin fiend in the

crowd was so disturbed that someone

had to drive to town to get food to

balance the ration?



If picnickers this summer will follow

this plan they will find it suited to pic-

nics and meetings of all sizes, whether

in or out of doors.





The main idea of this plan is to sup-





ply each family With a Simple menu gancrcd American White Lugllul'ns

or list of the food to be taken to the ““3““ “1110‘s;





gathering. Each menu is the same

and can be sent with the invitation or

announcement of the affair. Each fam-





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prices.





 





 





QUALITY CHICKS gait-lied {Gong _hl~:lvy(lzlying. contest winning flocks. “'in-

) ~ V ‘ " .‘ in . lcllgnli, ‘olmocticut. Z\Il.'.~ l " (‘ ‘

gaggSLh'“ BLOOD TLS'ILU FOR BAUILLARY “'HITIC l)[:;}({)]llll‘ll‘::l\ll(i flfladlan

F .20 Lite Dellwry Guaranteed. Postpaid prices 50 100 500 1000

human Strum Barrcd Rocks $10 '30 000 00 W" 313'

seldzml Barred Rocks .................................... ' 800 "1300 “if; 135

s. c. 1;ch. lint. Laying Contest Stock) ................ 10:50 2000 95 185

luxtra Belcl't s. c. and R. C. Reds ......... . ......... 0 00 ”'00 so 155

sole-t s. c. and it. c. Rods ........................ 5200 1500 to *5

\VIHIH Itocks and Wyumiottcs 0.00 17.00 135

tility & Eng. Dalg'ull White Ilt‘glllll‘ll'su.‘ """"""""" $90) 112588 g 11305

50, n; 100. $12. Mixed, all Heavies. 50. t‘.’0' """""""" " " - ' '

for (binary after May 10m, deduct 157;, from above 3’ 0 . 100, $13. if ordtwd leXL from thls ad





. _ prices on the llelwy brccds and 200') f‘)

advcrllsclllcnt in perfect confidence. 1‘ Hill the Leghorn





50. LANSING. MICHIGAN.





Order dircct from this

EYSTONE HATCHERY.





 





ily brings its own silverware, and at





 





lunch time the food is assembled and

each person helps himself in cafeteria

style.“





This method will eliminate several

evils of the old system. For instance,

under the old system if Mrs. James,

who was to bring all the potato salad,

and Mrs. Hodge, who was to furnish

the cold tongue, fail to come at the

last mement, the party has to get

along as best it can with Mrs. Dean’s ‘

hard-boiled eggs and Miss Sweet’s





DO‘ THIS FOR--





CHICKS’ BOWEL TROUBLE





(WHITE DIARRHEA)





Use the simple. sure way that all big breed- ‘f’idg Mllf‘h better and fast-

ere have followed for eleven years. They aid?“ "THO“ and safer than

know. It always works for them. It (10113?“ . tahlets. Chlcks

will for you too. ‘ Home 1‘ at all.





Get some B-K. Your dealer has B-K. in P0013; m'll‘tllcrr)lt:,f lsettIllgg brags;

quart and gallon bottles. Put my to save 'vour baby

it in the chicks' drinking water chicks. No way~ so cheap

from the very first day they [and sure. Money back guar-





 





arrive. Keep it up for ten days. antes on every package.

Also disinfect the incubator. ,

Spray the pens, too. This will de- ' '

stray the germs that spread in the

droppings. White diarrhea will

have no chance at your brood.





I___|‘l.‘fl"“l‘_n-‘-h-’

General Laboratories, Dept. 24R



'Madison, Wisonnsin.

Please send FREE and POS'I‘PAID your valu-

able Bulletin No. 213G on WHITE DIARRHEA





 





 





lemonade. Under the new system each

family brings enough of all four dish‘

es for its own members, and it doesn't

matter if everyone don’t come.





 





I AND BUVVEL TROUBLE IN BABY CHICKSI

I Name ........................................................

I Address ........................................ . ............





B-K. absolutely prevents this

bowel trouble.



B-K is more powerful than cerbolic,

acid. yet it contains no poison or"





 





 





 





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. Chicks ”171d bonfires oi asoeo= _ y .

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affirms .aaaaaranas;""“” $6.15 new 01001.00 3115.00





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an , ur eel m‘ent two cents . ' chick.

June “(erghiat'si which will be _ per





i m above let, ease I: broi seven cents each.

Cratish with order or legal: C.0.D.‘ It esired. 1001 live deli ,



arm . Order from this ad. Get our cut prices on pellets. midi

gr immediate shipment. Big, valuable catalog Free. -





siLvaR WARD HATCHERY. BOX 29 22mm. Mien-item.





 

 

 





 





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Will Tell





sues of the animals whichf" interferes





Feeding experiments with poultry

conducted over a." number 0f years, in

which an effort was made to substi~

tute other mineral elements for cal-

cium in the ration, notably magnesium





um in nature, and which is found in

such abundance in many plant and

animal tissues, demonstrated that oth-

er minerals 'will not take the place of

calcium and that if this element is

lacking in the food, the demands of

the body will .be met by drawing on

the lime stored up in the bones and

muscles of the fowl. Results were also

in accord with the idea that both lime

and phosphorus are more easily taken

from the bones of the living animal

than from dead bone ash fed to the

animal.



.Many rations fed to poultry under

present conditions contain much less

calcium} or lime than is required by

the body, it is said. Poultrymen are

advised to meet this demand by ad-

ding lime to the ration in the form of

oyster shell or other inorganic lime

compounds for mature birds and in the

form of vegetable foods rich in lime

for growing chicks, such as young

clover, alfalfa, etc.



\M‘ost grain foods and some other

foods are deficient in calcium and

neither the hen nor duck can consume

enough of the bulky foods to meet the

calcium requirement of the laying pe-

riod. The mature fowl, however, can

use lime in an inorganic form without

much difl‘iculty, but the young fowl

cannot so freely supply its needs from

this source. For this reason, it is

highly desirable to provide a regular

supply of vegetable foods rich in lime

for young birds. While it is very un-

likely that the birds will ever lack the

small amounts of calcium required for

certain normal functions of the body,

such as maintaining the heart action

and imparting the necessary proper-

ties to the blood, it is unwise to allow

the reservoir of the important mineral

elements to become much depleted,

especially during growth or egg pro-

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TEMPERATURE FOR A BROODER.





Please tell me what ails my three-

week-01d chicks and how to stop their

dying. Out of a flock of 350 we have

lost around 100 so far. Lose from one

to three in twenty-four hours right

along. Have been feeding them sour

milk, oatmeal, bran and egg. Don’t

feed egg now. They have all the bran

and charcoal they want in self-feeders.

I kept the temperature around seven-

ty degrees the first few days, and now

some lower. Don’t think they could

have been over-heated. They didn’t

have much ventilation through the

night until the last few days, because

it was too cold to leave in much air

all night, so kept the windows closed.

Do you think that could be the cause?





You mention using a. broader tem-

perature of seventy degrees for the

first few days, followed by a lower

temperature. This is too low and has

probably resulted in considerable hud-

dling of the chicks, and possibly some

chilling. A brooder thermometer

should register about ninety-degrees

about three feet from the base of the

stove and an inch above the litter.

That is the point where the chicks“

usually sleep. Then they can move

nearer the stove if it becomes cooler

toward morning. They can spread out

if the stove becomes too hot.





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in the food .a drain is made org-the rel-

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111g, combined with a lack of exercise,

helps to cause digestive disorders

:1th chicks. Sprouted oats and chop»

ped mangeis help to give the broader

Chicks a succulent ration. Cut sods

and place them near the broader stove

so the chicks can dig in the dirt and

grass. Train. them to run out on the

range as soon as possible. The out-

door exercise when the weather makes

it possible will always help to prevent

the death of 'the chicks.





 





THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST.





 





THE completion of. the first half.

year of the contest still finds the

heavy breeds in the lead. This is the

first time that this has occurred'in the

Michigan'contestsf The Rhode Island

Reds of the West Neck Poultry Farm,

of Long Island, top the list/with 1,263

eggs to their credit. The Royal Hatch-

ery Leghorns are a close second, hav-

ing laid 1,227 eggs. ‘



Third are the Leghorns of the St.

Johns Poultry Farm, of Orongo, Mo.,

with a total of 1,167 eggs. Fourth place

is occupied by the Leghorns belonging

to J. P. Gasson, of Versailles, Ohio.

This pen laid 1,138 eggs.





The average egg production of the

Leghorns for the half-year was eighty-

eight eggs per bird. The Rhode Is-

land Reds come second with eighty-

pne eggs per bird.



I The hen with the highest record for

the half-year laid 153 eggs; another

laid 152, and still another 151.



The production for the contest as a

whole is on the increase. During the

week the contest birds laid 4,370 eggs

which is 1,513 eggs over last year at

the same time. The percentage pro-

duction for the week was 62.4.





INTERNAL RUPTURES\





 





Please can you tell me what ails

my hens? They seem to be healthy

and lay well, but while they are on

the nest they die. Their combs and

heads turn black. What can I do for

them?———Mrs. A. M. S.





When hens die on the nest it is

usually due to an internal rup-

ture due to the strain of laying.

Such losses will occasionally occur in

well managed flocks. It is one of the

troubles. that helps to make up the

normal death rate in the flock. A

postmortem examination is necessary

to study the internal organs and lo-

cate the cause more definitely.





WATER IN CHICK’S CROP.





 





Please tell me what'is the trouble

.when a chick six weeks’ old droops

around with its crop full of water, and

when it is touched the water squirts

fiom its mouth. The chick died in a

sl101t time and bloated up after death.



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The condition of the bird may be

due to sour crop. It may be cansed

by a clogging of the digestive system

with such material as hair, feathers,

potato peelings or some other foreign

material. In such cases the bird might

stop eating and continue to drink wa-

ter, although the clogging of the pas-

sage would keep the water in the

crop. Such cases do not occur often

and treatment is not satisfactory when

the condition is not found until the

bird is very devitalized. Kneading of

the crop to remove the material might

cause a quick recovery if taken in an

early stage.





TESTING DUCK EGGS.





 





I am setting some duck eggs under

hens, and was told to test the eggs on

the tenth day. Can you tell me how

to test them?—R. W.





The duck eggs can be tested once

on the tenth day, but many breeders

make a test on the fifth day to remove

the infertile eggs and dead germs.

Then a second test can be made about





 





’ dark stiff paper.





 





egg tester or by making a funnel of

One end should be





a little smaller than the size of the

duck egg. Light a- kerosene lamp or

lantern and place it on a table about

on a level with the eyes. Hold the

egg on the end of the tester and sight

through directly at the flame of the

lamp. Infertile eggs will be perfectly

clear.

and gradually become darker as the

duckling develops. The dead germs

can be graded out by noting the dif-

ference between the germ that has

grownonly a few days and is only a

small spot and the live germ which

is much "larger. Any germs of which

you are uncertain can be left until

the second test, when the“ difference

between them and the live eggs will

be very apparent.





CHICKS DIE IN SHELLS.





 





I am wondering if you could tell me

something regarding the trouble that

so many people in this vicinity are

having so far this season, and also last

season, with chickens not being able

to get out of the shell. My flock that

I am saving eggs from are well-bred

and apparently strong. Is there some-

thing lacking in their feed? Or is it

because they are confined—which they

have been nearly all winter. They

have had warm mashes every day and

some green food, but they didn’t get

green food every day. Several of my

neighbors say that last year, as well

as this, that they had to help their

chickens out of the shell which, of

course, leaves them weak. Also, I

have a young goose (hatched last

year) that has laid just four eggs. The

last egg is quite small. It that right?

I have never raised geese before and

am inexperienced with them. I have

read some articles where it says that

they lay about ten eggs, and will lay

more if broken up from setting. Will

her eggs be good to set? My gander

is about three years old. —D. .M.





In aitificial incubation some of the

chicks always seem to die in the shell,

especially just at hatching time. The

spark of life seems strong enough to

develop the Chick’s body but does not

have the added strength ‘to enable it

to emerge from the shell. However,

if the hatch is fifty to sixty per cent,

that is as good on the average as can

be expected. Proper temperature,

moisture and vitality of the breeding

stock are all factors in determining

the number of chicks that hatch.





If you had the same trouble with

the eggs set under hens I should be-

lieve that the breeding stock were to

blame. Possibly the feeding of warm

mashes forced egg production and did

not make the hens exercise enough.

Plenty of green feed and sour milk

are a great help in producing good

hatching. Anything that gives vita-

mines to the breeding stock seems to

help in feeding a strong spark of life

into the body of the chicks. Eggs us-

ually hatch better when the hens are

on range, because they then receive a

normal ration for producing eggs that

are fertile, and they also obtain more

exercise. Of course, early hatching

means that we must imitate spring

conditions as much as possible in the

winter laying quarters so that a fair

per cent of the February and March

eggs will produce chicks.





The abnormal goose egg should not

be used for hatching. The eggs from

young geese do not hatch as well as

the eggs from more mature breeders.

The goslings are not as apt to be as

strong as the offspring from mature

stock. The first eggs laid by a goose

are often placed under hens. Later in

the season the goose is given a setting

of eggs. This young goose will pro’

duce eggs next year that will be of a

better quality for hatching purposes.





No matter what discouragements

come to cooperative marketing, no

matter what of these enterprises fail

—the cause itself will triumph in the

end because it is everlastingly right——

Frank 0. Lowden.





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Y USING only the finest, selected grades of our meal [without ,

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Tancred and Tom Barron White Leghorns ........ $2. 50 $5. 00 s 9. 00 $42. 50 s 85

Parks' Barred Rocks ..... . ..................... 3.00 6.00 11.00 52. 50 105

8.0.1:. I. Reds ............ . ......... 3.00 6.00 11.00 52.50105

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100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. Postpaid prices 25 50 100 500 1000

English and American White Leghorns .................... $2. 75 $5.50 $10 $45 3 88

Single and Rose Comb Brown Leghorns 5.5 10 45 88

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White Wyandottes Black Minorcas

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but when I see high School boys from

thirteen to seventeen years of age go-

ing around with a. cigarette or pipe in

their mouth it makes my blood boil.



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I see some of the cousins, have been

lling what their ambitions are. What





In ambition, apparently, you didn’t





‘ destination for any’ ambition.

call it vanity;

better?





fiOiiiilo‘slishf White ,. , .

‘ . [Get Ecur‘ reduced prices. ., .. 1.:

.; from our special 2-year-old 1-. . f " f , , . .,

”'0 per 100 lot. ,34850’ per»500 . “\‘5 ~ -- . V" .. ~ g:

. ~r$953per 1000. Order directfrom ' " ' V, '- . _ ;"' y“ - 4 L ,. :v

isadvertisementand'save time.ICir- , , ‘ 5 ’r 5 5 ‘ . ’ fl . ' , ' A 1 ,. .1". ._i 7, - ‘ 4-9» ,, . " , b.» '

. ‘ ._ , . - '. . - - , ,r - , ‘ ‘ ver‘shotteredl’their no, "damn; 1'4

uter- free. Reference, Holland City F , ,. ‘Q I y‘ 5.1d” . theyhadno e . o 1,, . _

tats Bank. We guarantee 100%‘alive ,2 , rom He 00 , . ~ . bytheuse of. tobacco, th¢¥~zfi°¥fldin2£

o'carrival. . , , . . . . . _ . . _ , 7, sneetidmétgegomsoothedV andfthe victim ‘

l'llll 0.. l P ll Fa & ll l ll Dear Uncle Frank‘and All: 1.7,, ‘ ',xread of some young.,mén who,are_ pre- .ggeb ééfiazliee t..0 will“ clearly at all .



. . _.. Cl 3 0" W "“3. a“ fly, I feel as though I am out. of ‘ place paring. themselves as medical this. _ CAI think lyioul‘u'fléwséof.smoking are 3

R. 2,‘ Box D, _ Holland, Mich. in writing this letter. as 1,,am too “old Bionaries, for dOCtorSfarsi needed: 150 "om-feet. ‘Ij'believé.;._that”if‘_' ’lr‘lsiwo‘lfld . i

'> 2—— , ‘ ' for your club. However, ,I am sending bad, in China and India. ,MX' ambition} express their dislike for ,‘he use of , 5‘ 0'



a , _ , - ahlttle contribution to the‘Merry Cir— always was to become» a missionary, gggggg ”more" b°Y3'.W°‘1!d-’b° .1101?-

‘ ‘ ole Fund. , ._ but I was always handicapped in many . ' ,, ‘ ’ ' ' “ . -’ : j

.. . < “ , ' I feel_ as though we all should help ways. - ' . A‘PSALM F 'LEA ~ ‘

. FROM REAL BARRON . _, , ‘ I do wish all young ladies would 0 ' \RN'NG'

, a " ‘ ‘ _ _ , T‘

- . s I n g I e c 0 m b gem“ £9113”. anything ‘50 ‘10 With Tell, me not in‘wilful numbers , " ,

, . , {oys W 0 .1156 tobacco in any form. Knowledge can be had by dream, ‘ -

‘ Whit '- h How soon it would disappear if they For the kid is lost who slumbers

, I e 69 Ol‘ns x did, and what a blessing it wOuld be - And things are not what they seem-‘

' for our country. How much more Life 1 ' ‘

..- . . , sreal! Learnin e e 2

Y ' ”STAB-I; RIGPT ' food and clothing many children could ' And eighth grade 11351033322311, »

our u 0 success open on your oundatlon start. have, - > ' For to keep right on her turnest \

Start with ormwn stock, omen, or out. Then . . , - ~ ’ . — ~ . ‘ '

_ will u l. .,,, . -- Makes a learned and, honored so .

533“” 33m yr: :23 33"? $31?“ lggezi m Thanking you in advance for taking . ., . , _ , . ul

no price list. so much of your time, I am your All in ignorance, all insorrow,

. friend, ‘ Mrs. E. F. Is our destined end 0r way; 4 ;

Ottawa Hatchery 8: Poultry Farm, But to act, that each tomorrow t. 3

R. IO, HOLLAND, MIOH. THE GOLDEN CIRCLE Finds us farther than today.

Study’s hard, time is fleeting

' I ‘HE Golden Circle is growing right And twhile our body 5 young and ‘:

HIGH QUALITY BH'GKS along. Nearly every week some Let ussncbllv' our task be meeting 5

, one becomes entitled to a Golden Cir- At the first of Life’s long bout,

Delivered big Parcel Post Prepaid ole honor for doing good work in dis- “ . ,. 5}

100% lee eliverey Guaranteed cussing modern subjects, drawing Lives Of great men all remind us . ’l

, . ’ We Can make our lives sublime, ,3 /

\wmmn an“ 250 :0 ":0 Arthur .and Ruby Slade and Byron writing poetry or something of that So, departing,» leave behind us il ‘_

mm, ’mm‘“& Buuu$$ ”'5 ’ '5“ 3 2 Fowler mm the" Pets- - sort. , I .have on hand several papers Footprintson thesands of time”, -. 5‘ g

ginggcgggs Rose Comb Beds ‘4 oo ”.00 "5 towards such a, worthy cause, whether now which will be published in due —By Edna Federspiel, M- Cu Sterling, 4),,

White Wyundottesljnliufi'n'dr: ' we are Merry Circlers or not, time and Will entitle their writers to Michigan. , i

1 1:51:33" ‘9‘ Buck “WWW-“5° “-50 "5 Something has been telling me for Golden Circle button. l

filomfif $233??ng sowggmggm 'flw two years to write this letter. I want Those Who have been awarded 5

Poultry- to congratulate the Merry Circlers on these honors lately are: if.

MANKEL IDEAL HATGHERY the interest they have been taking in Rasoline Linderer, Newaygo, Mich. If

the contests and discussions. Rex John O. Roberts, Breckenridge, E

BOX B: Upper Sandusky, 0- Ellis and Harold Coles surely are Mich. {

wide awake boys. Some of the girls Goldie Kleinhardt, Detroit, Mich. ' t

' have shown high ambitions too, espe— Ardath Shannon, Stanwood, Mich. ,

Ch'cks"'PUIlets cially the girl who is preparing her- Kathleen Stack, Holly, Mich. 5

flefigf” 0‘33;- flgglvggflfooggfivewggm self as a missionary. I would like to Florence Rairigh, Woodland, Mich. 5

mo. eta. ' ~“ ’

Barred. and White Rocks, Reds, White and Silva-

flfit‘l’flfifiéflg will; “EWE“w%mi£1§°‘fég§J£ S O ' ° 5

88nd tor' Chick o'r Pullét Circular with price list: ‘

. our: FARMS ASSOCIATION ome plnlons 5

nlamazoo. Michigan. ' . l

”mm“his:“t::.“’pf:',;“l:t’:::“"°" Dear Uncle Frank: . have finished school and have grown

The followmg is my opinion of cig— to manhood, it would not be quite so so

arettes: bad.

- . - Cigarettes are the most harmful of Men who are slaves. of the tobacco ’ .

. l all tobaccos because the wrapper has habit, if they have a great roblem to 5

. , p

Wehavelnumber orsweek puhetswllich a poison in it. solve, or something that requires a lot

Kiiggfifi’xfidg:Jggloztsgéllgafi’m'zié Men, and even women, will smoke of thinking, smoke while they are us. 5

"0° . 6" ”°“” “3‘“ “‘3 me“ half of a cigarette and then throw it ing their minds. The thi k 't th 1 ' .

flock t I" d I rlc0.erteforprlcesonthese y D 1 $00 es _ . ,,

bullet:afigéggklffiggzgéfigfi "' °"'°"' away. Then some little boy or girl their nerves and enables them to think lofanma bfigpgltle‘ahal‘sasm m: too 909d

Box A ZEELANDo MICH- will come along, pick it up and more clearly. It probably does, but if tured glght. y reams PIC-

smoke it. ‘ . , “

cmcl Bc. lull Uh—Puum sac. lull up. Cigarettes are one of the causes or w 5

, Pure-bred- huh?“ quality» best. W“ tuberculosis, a disease which our coun~ 5 5.

lng. Low prices on leadlng varieties. . . . ~

Every Fairview bird is thoroughly in— try IS trying to overcome. They never ‘ '5‘; l

Z’l’sw‘i‘ipi’hallfi‘l‘lgy 1535:]? Sam; will be able to overcome it until they fig; :sif‘xEE }

g;%“‘§;§,821nn‘gf3:' lgg‘gsrsnfg‘egehfi‘f pass a law saying, “No one can smoke E‘ l

Wriit’i‘l‘étd‘ul‘t'e‘fl%“ai”§~o or chew.”——Anna De Boer, R. 1, Rock- ‘l

Poutmv FARM, Iford, Mich. Dear UDCle Frank: mine is going to be I don’t know, but

Zeeland, mm... n. 2. Box 203. Another good word from an anti- .Am enclosing my response to the whatever it will be, I know I am go~ '

— tobacconist. Smoking may be a con- ple. contest 1n two forms. First, a so— ing as far as possible in it, and I will 5

w. LEGHORIkhgleNC-AK mNoncs- tributing cause of tuberculosis, but lutlon of the contest, and also. the con- be a success. Greater still, far away .

0mm, ,ntmmona, Egg comm other habits of life often have more gfggefiltlalthols‘esultst of reading and in the distance I ”see something very 5

Record! up to 254 Eggs. serious effects. 13' g e (1‘10 aIIODS- sacred—a Home. l

m m, em, on, mom .Ope that the children at the San- Oh, I sure like the outdoors, nature, l

No one can beat our QUALITY. atorlum may benefit largely by your birds, etc. Give me a pal (just some- .

. £35533: %72‘i~'i”1§oéf’“'o&32£o%'é‘°l§iu“c°£§ Dear Uncle Frank: plan because it is worthy—Yours, Ros- one to share the outdoors With, and t0 5

‘ ‘ Wm woman you D . 1 ll: th m sm k ed? B’ coe Bloss, M. C., Dunningville, Mich. talk to), a lunch, then I’m all set. How i

~ v-_-,..‘-"__—. Over 20 years experience assures your 0 W8 gll‘ 3 1 e e 0 ' y Roscoe sent one dollar -—U F many of you cousins belong to a. B0 ~5

b PAlibtll-zhltacgbns'r PREPAID all means no! ‘- 5 5 . or Girl 3001153 TI‘OOD? I d0, and sure :5

"};”,'§1,';°“ $53; ”We mum, “mm”; It seems to be the general opinion Dear Uncle Frank; fl .think they are useful if the work is

Pm: BAY POULTRY FARM. Holland. Michigan. among the fellows that they will be f I tohm lfinclosglig la, gang contribution giggiggougvzgcordmg to ruleéa. We go .

. u .g . ,, . , or e err rce un . 1h y summer, an sure 0 .

.3, P e Bred C H I C K S looked upon .as Slssles lf‘fthhey (111011: will get enoggh to buy the 1.3.35): 32%? have good times. ' g

t “I... . . .. smoke. B“ In my 09mm” 1 t ey 3"" the sick children. Say, Uncle Frank, P901519 say girls have more vanity 5

1“; Baby Chicks Wltha‘Future , the Will power to l'Efuse to Smoke they I’ve a question for you_ What makes a than bpys, WhiCh is very true. Don’t 5

$5,353: slime-55$: thwreoulilltllv ‘t‘é’“§re"¥s§r‘i§’§ 5-53); are going to make better and stronger fiSh go through the water With appar- £0“ thmk the modern girl, no, “Ct the



the best your money canbblly in Quality (‘llit-Ils. We men ently D0 efiort? They don’t wave their apper’ lOQkS Dice.



guarantee 100% lee Dohvory. 50 100 500 1000 A. h l t d’ d h , l fins or tails like a. person would his I think 1f the boys around the ages 5



E; C. wn. Leghoms .......... $6 $12 $57.50 35115 nyone w 0 las su le . p yelo ogy arms, and yet they go along at a great of thirteen to seventeen paid more at— J .g



1. Beds and B. r. Rocks. 8 15 72.00 140 knows that tobacco ls harmful to the speed He can’t go without moving tention to "‘th they W011“ be better ;



Catalog on Request. Bank References. body, and even shortens the life of the his arms or legs or both. It’s a ques- off. Boys, don’t take this for an insult,



A. ll. Richardson Halchery,Box “”,J Dundee, Michigan victim I happen to know of a girl llflm I can’t figure out, so I thought becauste 1I1 didn’t mtean it to be ”so, it



_ , ask you. in ms uman na ure. I think the

Place Order. NOW lor June Who SmOked when very young’ and the H0ping you Will DHbliSh my letter glI‘lS Who paint, DOWder' and fuss up

B A B Y c H I c K 5 FROM use of the narcotic stunted the growth and answer my question, 1 remain, so much, look a lot worse than those a.

OUR of her mind and body so that she ’s YOUI‘ nephew, Billy Dukes, Fennville, non-vanity boys. -

s.c. WHITE LEGHORNS . . Mich Must close wishing you all “Good "



Every bird in our flock is trapnested every day ln the very backward in school work. Thls -‘ , Luck.” I'll sign my name Miss M C l .0;-



io'fl‘me‘h’l’é’é' 3.75:3Jhnswgrantl’gcr‘?”ll°:’sét all”; is a case that doesn’t occur very often I guess I 1‘ let somebOdY else answer ’ ' ' 5





ow where you are going, but you are

your way. » But Home is a laudable





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, , , Louise Fromholz, ‘R. 7,

-. - ' . * '~ '- ~ ”CltY. Mich; .1 .

I’LL say it is. Look at the .prosper- - Lottie Kar owsky. R. 2’ Wilmot, A

One. homes of today “compared to, J .





Gertrude Jo neon, Bark River, Mich.



Elizabeth Wells,

Wyandotte, Mich.



Verl E. Walz,





Telegraph Road,

R. 2, Grass Lake,





the samgahdmes 701" afew years ago;

While there were saloons the men fre-

qu'ented them, not only spending their

money but keeping their minds and

bodies ‘in' an unfit conditiOn to earn a

livelihood for their families. This of- ITS a long time since we have had

ten made it necessary for the mother a word contest.

tohtake in work to support the family. very popular in the past, so I think

Imagine the home! An over—worked it is about time to have another now.

mother, underfed children, . and a This time I am going to ask you to

drunken father coming home to abuse '

them. ’



The saloons were a place for crim—

inals and degenerates, as well' as oth-

ers to hang out at, not a very good

bunch for the young men to be thrown

in with. _.



With the continual increase of auto- ..

mobiles, think of how dangerous it

would be if there were as many drunk-



en men as there were before prohibi-



tion. There are enough accidents now

but nothing compared to what there

would be with a. lot of drunken drivers

on the road.



It is true there is a lot of moonshine

made and sold today, but it does not

have the influence oyer the younger

generation that the saloons had.—— /





 





A WORD CONTEST.





 





Ethel Morningstar, Rothbury, Mich.





Virginia Richardson’s Drawing of One





WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH Who Devotes Her Life to Others.





HOME?

make just as many words as possible

from the letters in the words “Spread-

ing Happiness.” I have selected these

”words because they indicate the chief

duty of the Merry Circlers and be-

cause right now, through our M. C.

Fund we have a good chance to spread

happiness.



Please number the words you make;

also put in the upper right hand cor-

ner of your paper, the total number of

words you have made. In the upper

left hand corner of the first page, put

your name and address, and if you are

a Merry Circler, put M. C. after your

name.



This contest closes May 22. Send

your papers to Uncle Frank, Michigan

Farmer, Detroit, Mich.





()METIMES the fault lies with the



children, but generally it lies with

the parents, if the home-is not a good

one.



In many homes parents have a bad

influence over their children, which is

caused by drinking, swearing and con-

stant quarreling. In other cases, they

do not concern. themselves enough

about their children. These are al-

lowed to do as they please, and often

become criminals because they have

not had a right bringing up.



Many boys and girls never have a

good time. Of course, if they want a

good time, they should see whether it

is a proper one. It is not right that

boys and girls cannot have their

friends come over, or cannot go with

them to some good place of amuse-

ment, because a true friend is a good

thing to have. The children do not

enjoy their life at home because they

are constantly being scolded, have no

amusement," and have no true friends.



Let us enter a modern little bunga-

low. Dad is reading the newspaper,

mother is embroidering, May and

George are reading their story books.

Two rosy-checked children enter the

room. They are playmates of George

and May. The children all gather

around the piano, May playing the

songs for them. The voices of mother

and dad join in with those of the chil-

Soon the little playmates leave.

A prayer is said and all go to bed,

slumbering peacefully till morning.

This home is a happy one.~Dorothy

VVicke, M. 0., Detroit, Mich.





 





 





When a twister a twisting, will twist

him a twist:



For the twistingsot' his twist, he three

times doth intwist;



But if one of the twines of the twist

do untwist,



The twine tthat untwisteth, untwist the

twis .





Untwirling the twine that untwisteth

between, "



He twirls, with the twister, the two in

in a twine;



Then twice having twisted the twines

of the twine,



He twisteth the twine he had twined

in twain.





 





The twain that, in twining before in

the twine,



As twines were untwisted; he doth

untwine:



’Twixt the twain inter-twisting a twine

more between,



He, twirling his twister, makes a twist

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A thatcher ol‘ Thatchwood went to



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Did a thatcher of Thatchwood go to





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Traverse





They have been ,





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500

Tancred W. Leghorns .............. $12.00 $57.50

Barred Rocks ...................... 14.00 07.50

S. C. & R. C. Eh. I. Reds ........ 14.00 07.50



Utility Mating



English W Leghorns ............... 10.00 47.50

Barred Rooks ...................... 12.00 57.50

Rh. l. Reds ........................ 1200 57.00

Mixed chicks (No culls) ........... 8.00 40.00

0n orders for less than 100, add 25c to total price.

Spocial prices on orders of 1000 or more. Get our

catalog and quotations on large shipmcnts.

Read This Barred Rock Record:

Lukeview Poultry Farm. Dcur Slrs: The Bar-rod

Rock chicks l bought of you last spring are the





best I ever had for egg production and for market,

as they weigh (3 to 8 pounds. My pullcts started

to lay at 51.4: months old and by January were





going 70% daily. John. A. llcuhaus.

East Amherst. N. Y., Jan. 3. 1925.





LAKEVIEW POULTRY FARM,





R. R. a, Box 6. Holland, Mich.





 





If a thatcher ol' Thatchwood went to

Thatchet a-thatching,



Where’s the thatching the thatcher 0f

Thatchwood thatched?





time-worn tongue twisters were used.

So I picked with neatness and origi—

nality in mind. The twisters selected

were probably not original, but were

less used than others.



A great many boys and girls lost

out because they sent only one twister

instead of two, as requested. These,





Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled

DGPDEI‘S;



A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper

Piper picked;



If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled





 





 





 





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however, will get M. C. buttons and Where’s the peck of plckled peppers White Leghorns .............. $11.00 $50.00 3 95.00



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HE continuing rapid growth



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Michigan Agricultural College.

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single associations in the state,

or fifteen per cent of all those

in the United States, the demand

has exceeded the supply of men

to handle the cow testing work,

and nearly a. dozen new groups

are being held up temporarily

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cent of our milking cows will be mon-

ey-makers for their owners.



The fresh green luxuriant grasses

in the early spring offer false promises

to the farmer making his cows pro-

duce well With practically no outlay of

cash. He falls for it, the cows are

put out, and the milk supply is in-

creased for a. short time, caused by

the stimulating effect of the fresh suc-

culent pasture; but also every year

the truth is brought out. (if you have

statistics to look at, and many are

found as a result of cow testing work),

that cows allowed to rely on pasture

alone for four or five months will not

and "cannot produce profitably for a

period of years, or even the whole

year. Still many cows are kept on

pasture alone until there is not an

inch of growth for them to grub off.



You will say, how do they produce

on pasture if the elements necessary

to make milk are not in the grasses?

It is just this way. 'The daily feeding

of a. liberal supply of roughage and a.

balanced grain ration through the win-

ter makes the cows produce well and

also stores up a certain amOunt of

body flesh. This surplus flesh is what

the cows draw on in the latter part of

June and July when pasture gets less

satisfying and far less nourishing, and

then in August, when generally pas-

ture is nothing, the cows have reached

their limit on the flesh of their body

and shrink in milk as well as flesh.

Also, the cows on pasture have a lot

more to contend with than when they

are comfortably housed in winter and

have daily attention. A few of the

obstacles are flies, lack of water, and

the hot burning sun, while, too, they

use up a lot of energy in grazing over

a. large area of ground. These four

things are a check on production with‘

cows on pasture alone, because the

cow must use energy to overcome

these drawbacks, which otherwise

could be used to produce milk and

keep up body flesh. _



According to the history of the cow,

at one time she only produced enough

for her offspring, going dry after three

or four months of meager production;

but now it is different, for she has





 





been changed from this state to one of





 





long and heavy production. In fact.

813318 a factory so to speak, and there





;tore only what you put in can you take.





out It was all well and good for the

native cow to have held pasture, but

the dairy cow of today must be given

semething extra with the pasture in

order to meet our demands. Authorv

slides on dairymg teach this, the cow

proves it, and by this practice of pass

~ture alone, the average production and

the farmer profits, in the United





_. States, have been kept low.





In the south, many cows do not see

the inside of a barn, and never get

grain. As a~result they have the “Two

Gallon Cow,” which lasts for about five

months. But nature, has, in a. way,

forced us to get a better production

in this section. The winters being





cold, shelter must be provided and»





grain is fed. Although the production

is raised, it is not what it would be if

grain were fed throughout the year.

It does not make any difference

whether your. cows freshen in the

spring or fall: one is in as bad shape

as the other, because the spring cow

has given a. flush amount on grass, her

body tissues wear out, and at the time

of going on winter feeding, she is giv—

mg only a small amount of milk when,

you are getting the best of prices.

While the fall cow, although having

given a good body supply of milk dur-





ing the forepart of the lactation pe-'





riod, is at the time of hot weather,

flies and dry pasture "building her calf

and trying to produce. She, instinct-

ively, will not nourish the calf and

when she freshens she, like the spring

cow, will have no reserve to draw on

to fill your pail. Then what you must

do is to feed more grain during her

flush period than is economical or

healthful.



Concrete examples of the decrease

in production in turning out on pasture

of cows- which have received a. bai-

anced ration throughout the winter





 





 





Frank» Jewell’s Pure-bred Holstein was



gh Cow in North Kent Associa-



tion Last Year with 15,305 Lbs. of

Milk and 533.7 Lbs. of Fat.





 





 





have been found. One dairyman, Wal-

ter T. Hill, Genrlda. Farms,'Davison,

Michigan, makes the statement that

the decrease in the daily production

was enough to more than pay for the

added labor and expense of dry feed-

ing. Some of our local dairymen who

are making a success at the dairy bus-

iness say that never again will their

cows miss their grain ration the year

around. ,



Now, between the two extremes of

dry feed and no grass; and the other

of all grass and no grain, we have a

happy medium of some grain on grass.

By this method real profits are re—

ceived because we have-kept 'up the

maximum production and, according

to our old dairy authority, Prof. C. H.

Eckles, in order to make large yearly

returns, a. heavy production must be

gotten and to do this the monthly flow

must be kept up for ten months at-

least.‘



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small but it is about right for an ’av-





, erage from May to November first.





Let us now see what results could be

gotten by feeding a grain ration with

the pasture. Ten cows next winter





' would produce 200 pounds without any





grain this‘sutnmen If they were fed'

grain these same cows would give six-

teen per cent more next winter, or





‘ thirty-two pounds daily, as found from





several years of cow testing associa-

tion data. Figuring the milk at $2.00

per 100 pounds, then’ from October 1

to March 15, or 166 days, there would

be a gain of $106.25.



Now, if the cows average ten pounds

a day on pasture and were fed 2.5

pounds of grain daily, costing $1.90 a

hundred, then from the first of June

to October 1, or 122 days, the grain

would cost $57.95. Subtracting the

grain from the milk {returns there

would still be a difference of $48.30,

which is fair, because the cows will

increase a little in the summer,.too,

and also they will have their body tis-

sues built up to start winter produc—

tion. The grain ration in summer

should contain about ten per cent pro-

tein, and a good one as suggested from

practice is corn and cob, oats, and

bran, equal parts. The cows should,

of course, be fed according to What

they produce:



Really, the profitable way to use

pasture is not as a main feed, but

simply as a supplement. Much is sav—

ed by adding a liberal grain ration and

keeping the cows always in fair bodily

Condition, because we have learned

that to tear down and then to build

up again is always costly.





___,____._.___._

THE WHEAT OUTLOOK.





 





(Continued from page 648).

volume, that producers in the south-

west who wish to sell at harvest time

will encounter a brisk demand for

their product, and that indications of

poor yields in 1925, especially in ex-

porting countries, will have a decid-

edly stimplating effect on prices.



New crop prospects the world over

are not as well defined as the probable

old crop carryovers. More is known of

the crop in the United States than in

any other country. All that is official

here at this writing is the estimated

acreage planted to winter wheat, the

condition of growth on April 1 and in-

tended spring wheat plantings. Un-

official reports from reliable sources,

however, indicate that winter wheat

abandonment was nearly 21 per cent

of the acreage planted, or next to the

highest on record, and crop forecasts

are for only about 440 million bushels,

or 150 million bushels under last-

year’s harvest. About 15 per cent more

spring Wheat is being planted than

last year, and it has better than an

average start. If the final yield of

spring wheat per acre is not above the

average and if winter wheat does not

improve, the total wheat crop would

be about 695 million bushels.



Domestic disappearance has averag-

ed 625 million bushels for the last five

years. If the carry over of old wheat

is below the average, and the new

crop is no larger than just indicated,

the exportable surplus from the new

crop would be small indeed. Since

importing countries under any circum-

stances will need to obtain consider-

able wheat from the United States in

July, August, and September, and ex-

ceedingly bullish situation is indicated.



Of course, nature has vast healing

powers. The prospective yield can be

greatly increased by favorable weath—

er. La-st year, the June .1,forecast

was only 693 million bushels, but the

harvest was 180 million bushels more.





'~"On the» other hand, it is equally pos-





 





' two years.





dim .c‘ _ . _

ground, but preliminary reports. indi-

cate ' about the same acreage as laét

year. vWeather has been unusually

favorable thus'far. Canada’s crop is

made or marred in midsummer as

shownby the experience of the last

In 1923, the‘crop forecast

Was increased about 100 million bush-

els in one month, while last year it

shriveled up at a rapid rate. An av-

erage yield on the same acreage as

last year would mean an increase of

about 75 million bushels over the 1924

crop.



India’s crop harvested in March is

only 322 million bushels. This is less

than average domestic consumption

and leaves no balance for export. Her

next crop will not be available for

international trade for nearly a year.



Planting is under way in Argentina

and Australia. These crops must» go

through the southern winter and the

prospective yields at harvest next De-

cember and January are entirely con-

jectural. Prices are attractive enough

to stimulate planting a larger acreage.

In Australia, indications were for an

increase of one million acres, or about

9 per cent, but drouth has been report-

ed recently and the acreage may fall

short. In Argentina, preparations for

seeding are making satisfactory prog-

ress in some provinces, but others re-

port lack of rain.



EurOpean crop conditions indicate

larger yields than in 1924, but the ac—

reage for the countries reported to

date is practically the same and an

average yield per acre would make

the crop less than one per cent larger

than in 1924.





It is premature to talk of probable

import needs in the new crop year,

but the reports on European prospects

would not indicate much reduction in

the amount needed. In fact, these im-

port requirements fluctuate much less

from year to year than the variations

in European crop yields would lead

one to expect. They are influenced by

the size of the European potato crop

and by the general level

prices. High prices provoke curtail-

ment and low prices stimulate con-

sumption of white bread. In the last

five years these imports have ranged

from 585 million bushels to 775 million

bushels with an average of 660 mil-

lion bushels.



Prospective surpluses to supply

these import needs look much smaller





of wheat.





15 Monthly .

Paynents





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than last year. To begin with, there

is a shortage of about 100 million bu-

shels in the carryover. Then, the

present indications are for a crop in

the United States 180 million bushels

less than last year, while India has

42 million bushels less. It will take

either vast improvement in the United

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one or more of the other exporting

countries in order to make up a bud-

get of import needs equal to the av—

erage.



In brief, the wheat situation, so far

as the evidence enables one to judge

at the present time, is much more





bullish than at any time in the last.





year. If values last summer and fall

were on a sound basis, the price should

be still higher this year unless there

is great improvement in new crop

prospects. It might be added that

there is no sign of a return of the

extremely low prices of two and three

years ago in the distance that one

can see ahead. It would take one or

two years of unusually good crops to

bring about the abundance of wheat

prevailing at that time.



Russia is the great unknown, as

there is no telling when she will come

back as a great exporter of wheat and

rye. Last year, she did export about

30 million bushels of wheat and some

rye, but this year, nearly seven years

after the end of the war, she is an

importer to almost the same degree.

The comeback was expected to be

slow but hardly as slow as this.





THE grain ration you‘wa'nt

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now. It will pay well to keep an eye

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THE HOG MAN HAS HIS INNINGT.





 





HE day of the hog has come back.



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There are very few years when the

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a. period, however, when he has had

a hard time doing it, and liquidation

has been the order of the day.



Our "country has a way of quickly

eliminating any surplus when that sur-





plus gets so great that there" is no.





profit in it. And it can also be de-

pended upon to carry the elimination

process too far. So when we made up

our minds to get rid of those unprofit-

able hogs we did so with a vengeance.

There is no such thing now as a sur-

plus of hogs, and the balance has

swung decidedly the other way.



It takes longer, much longer, to re-

cuperate than to liquidate. Many farm—

ers who have sold their herds out en-

tirely in a day or a month, will be

two or three years building them up

again. The real hog man stays with





few years, but we can hardly afford it 1





>





[them through thick-sadism: He is; _

the man~who hishii‘iieua‘l number“ on; ;

hand at the present time; and is in a?

position to get back his money where” -





he lost'it. Scarcely any market cendi.» : I ~ -





tion is" possible that can preVent him

from making reasonable gains during ‘

the next three years, providing One





has good hogs.;-—H. F.





 





BEEF PRODUCTION MORE PROM-

.. ISING.





 





LL signs indicate that the beef



cattle industry is headed toward

lower production and rising prices. If

the present cycle runs true to‘ form,

the general trend of cattle prices

should be upward for six or eight

years. Cattle production in this coun-

try was at it’s previous low point

around 1913. Its last high point was

touched about 1919.



Seasonal variations and special con-

ditions often hide the main trend .n

the cattle industry, so that it is hard

to tell just what phase of the cycle it

may be in. At the present moment,

however. the principal facts are clear.

There is a depleted supply of beef

cattle on the ranges and a heavy move-

ment to market. A long period of fall-

ing prices has apparently been defi-

nitely succeeded by an unward move-

ment, occurring just when it should

occur on the assumption that the cat-

tle cycle will behave normally. If the

present trend is'not the start of a new

constructive period for the industry,

all present signs are deceptive.





SHORTAGE OF FARM WORK ANI-

MALS THREATENED.





 





MARKED decrease in the number

of horses and mules of working

age that may amount to an acute

shortage seems certain within five

years, says the United States Depart-

ment of Agriculture. Unless more

horse and mule colts are raised during

each of the next five years than were

raised in 1924, the number of horses

on farms five years from now will be

only about sixty-six per cent of pres-

ent numbers.

While present replacements of colts

and of young horses and mules are en-





Raz'sz'ng a T072 Litter





 





 





The pigs we had in the ton litter

contest were sired by Michigana Sen-

sation 32nd, and the dam was lrenes

lOrion Lady 623334. She was farrowed

September 5th, 1922 and this was her

first litter. '



These pigs were farrowed April 26th.

There were 13 in the litter and twelve

raised. The dam had the run of a

stalk field with our other sows and

was quite fat when bred. It is nearly

onehalf mile to the field, and these





They were fed ordinary farm feed,

mostly corn that they picked up in

the field. At farrowing time, she 'was

put in an individual A type house and

fed lightly for a few days on middlings





 





 





   

 





“mow“ e. rmeuv .' fimeM rum-nus» 1 new ‘c‘vr. a“... ......





sows had lots of exercise all winter.‘





 





and a small amount of skimmed milk.



She was soon moved to a field of

mixed clover, alfalfa and timothy and

as soon as the pigs would eat they

were given skim milk and middlings.

This was their main feed until about

August 1st when ground barley and

oats were added. The milk, however,

was limited to one feed a day.



They were fed twice a day just what

they would clean up. About Septem-

ber 15th we commenced feeding them

about 15 gallons of buttermilk daily.

For minerals they were fed a mixture

of wood ashes, acid phosphate and

salt. These pigs were never off their

feed and were always good doors—F.

J. Houseman. _





 

 

 

   





   

 

 





. a. a.“ “g

- ,i QUneed our horses

. everyday. etch care-





 

 

 





fully for strains, bruises and,

’ minor ailments. And be’sure to keep

Gombault‘s Caustic Balsam on your

shelf—ready for instant use. For

over-'41 years it has been famous as I

remedy for Sprains, Spavin. Splint.

Capped Hock, Curb, Fistula, Thor-

oughpin, Shoe Boile, Poll Evil, Wire

-Cuts and Muscular Inflammation.





Apply it yourself. Just follow direc-

tions that come with bottle. Much

better than firing and doesn’tdiccolcr

the hair or leave the slightest scar.

Don't let you horses cul‘cr from somethin-

you can cure yourself. BuyGomb-ult'e

Caustic Balsam today. $1.50 at all drnuictc.

or direct from noon receipt of price. The

Lawrence-Williams 00.. Cleveland. 0. .





GOOD FOR HUMANS, TOO





GOMBAULTS





COUSlIC





BALSAM





FOR SALE -Reg. Guernsey Bull Calve





Sire by Lone Pine Ranger whose dam has an A. 3»

record of 17,6442 lbs. Milk. 936.6 lbs. Fat. No Fo-

malee for Sale. Write l. M. Williams. North

Adams: Gllmorc Brothers. Camden. Mich.





Walllnwood Guernseys

Young bulls from A. R. cows for sale.



F. VI. WALLIN, "leniscn. Mich.



Reg. Guernsey Cows, Bulls and



For Sale Bull Calves. A. R. Record M"



Rose Breeding. JOHN EBELS, R. 2. Holland. Mich.





. r .1 N may

i’tfiiflil’i.il§"§"tl cesarean

Mlch.. R. I. Phone minor-J 7ooo n-i. "m" m’





 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

   





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

   





 





 

 

 

 

 





 





 

 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Type and Production

This week we are adoring a calf sired by a

son of Dutchland Creamelle Colantha Lad

and from a daughter of Canary Paul Fobes

rllongileld. a real combination of type and





Within.

a a : excellent individual. born

24.81924.Aa§(5l lgght colored. June

ire: - . son or Dutchland Cream-

elle Colantha Lad. first prize 1921 National

was as are W m

o a ve .

32.000 lbs. milk. 8‘ butter find

The Dam: A 21.9—lb. Jr. 4—year-old daughter

Canary Paul Fobes Lonxfleld. a. Home-

stead bull of wonderful type and sire of 9

daughters from 31.5 to 36.7 lbs. in 7 days.

and two above 1,147 lbs. in a year.

fiend for pedigree of Ear Tax No. 121.





Bureau of





Animal Industry

”Optic C

Lansing. Michigan





FOR SALE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN FRIE-

SIAN COWS from 2 to 7 years



old. Some fresh. others to freshen soon. Will sell

one or more to suit purchaser. Best of breeding.

Prices are right. HENRY 8. ROHLFS, Akron. Mich.

' ‘ Young Bulls up to 8 months

0‘1th Holstems of ago. Good Individuals and





Well Bred. at from $50 to 376. according to

I. M. SHORMAN. Fowlerville. Mich. m





HOLSTEIN BULL

from 1 month to 16 months old. Sire’s 2 nearest

dams, average 34 lbs. butter. High record A. B. 0.

dams. Will sell a few cows. I. A. Kidney. Brant. Mich.





R





350.

tlon or money back.





WILDWOOD FARM





offers two young Rosamond heifers. one red with

calf by side: one roan to freshen soon. At bed

prices. Beland 8. Beland. Tecumseh. Mich.





' Shorthorn Bulls. Two extra mod

D‘nson Farm ones. 1 year old. Fine individu-





als. ALEX. BRUCE. Man. R. I. Damon. Mich.





Best of quality and breeding. gulls.

S cows and heifm for sales BID ELI.‘

STOCK FARM, Box D. Tecumseh. Mich.





Hereford Steers





’ 66 Wt. Around 950 lbs. 60 Wt. Around. 850 lbs.

66 Wt. Around 740 lbs.



142 Wt. Around 600 lbs. Am 550 lbs.

52 Wt. Around 600 lbs. 58 Wt. Around 450 lbs.

Also mm other bunches. Deep reds. dehorned. good

stacker order. Real quality Herefords are usually

market toppers when finished. Will sell your choice



h. VAN B. BALDWIN. Eldon. Wa-





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





EGISTERED HOLSTEIN Bull Calves. 32 to 34

lb. breeding. One white, one 2-31 white. Price



Write for breeding and description. Satisfac-

B. E. KIES. Hillsdale. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





from any

cello 00.. Iowa.

Bulls. cows huh

LPII





Registered Herolcrds e... .0. “I... “:3.

CALHOON. Branch 00.. Bronco}. lich-
...,_ “Haw... “a“.-- -n “m.





 

 





 





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targeted. A rather marked fad

‘ .“fiii‘i horse. and mule prices during. the





r ass J A "





‘last' few months indicates‘ that the





' felt.





I





shortage may already be making itself

. This may be expected to in-

crease further the interest in horse

breeding.





 





HE KEEPS TH E‘ FAITH.





 





WESLEY HILE, of Iopia county, is





one of Michigan’s enthusiastic

hog men. He always keeps a lot\ of





.them around the farm and spares no





pains in taking good care of them. His

hobby is “the good ones.” He not only

breeds them good, and feeds them

good, but each year goes to the “utter-_





_ most parts” and buys a few of the best





' results presented.





he can find. In this way he always

manages to have superior hogs of new

blood lines that his farmer customers

can often use to. advantage. ,

This spring there are sixty fine little

fellows of March farrow playing

around, and most of them are prize-

winning material; Part of them are

sired by the 1924 world’s grand cham-





' pion, and have for a grandsire another





world's grand champion. Mr. Hile will,

no doubt, hold a fall sale and give his

fellow breeders and farmers a chance

to add some championship material to

their herds—P.





MICHIGAN LIVE STOCK FEEDERS’

DAY. ,





 





SATURDAY, May 23, has been des-

ignated as Feeders’ Day at the



Michigan State College of Agricul-

ture and Applied Sciences at East

Lansing. Anyone interested in live

stock feeding is cordially invited to





' visit the college on that day to get the





results of experiments which have

been completed, and study the animals

used.



Baby Beef Experiment.





‘v

lege, and the





 





in - ari'ous repartition sio ‘



ir, pracucai—apphcafi

Michigan farms. ' ~ .

Prof. J. T. Homer, of the depart-

ment of economics, will, conclude the

program with a talk on :‘How the

farmer can study .marketstatlstics and

their relation to price fluctuations.”





e'

onon





 





 





CORN CONTINUES KING OF cnops





 





CORN is the most useful and im-

portant product ‘of American

creps. The value of the corn crop

to farmers of this country is greater

than that of any other crop. In nine

of the last twelve years it has been

greater than the combined values of

wheat and cotton. In eight of those

years the value of corn has been

greater than the combined values of

all cattle and swine. produced for

slaughter. The average value .of corn

rose from $1,577,000,000 annually dur-

ing the pre-war period, 1910 to 19.14,

to $3,024,000.000 per annum from





1915 to 1919, and fell to $1,303,000,—in

1921.





um...” r 1;... . rm ,- , mum -1 \





eterinary.





WNWWWWIWMM

CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR.





Advice through this column is given free to our subscrib-

ers. Letters should state fully the history and symptoms of

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

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

mice becomes private practice and I]. must be enclosed.

u





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Navicular Disease—For a long time

one of my horses has been lame, caus-

ed by navicular disease, that’s what

our veterinary believes it is. J. A. S.,

Hillsdale, Mich.——If rest and repeated

blisters fail to relieve his lameness,

then have a section of the nerve re-





 





moved on both sides of leg, either‘





about or below fetlock joint, then he '





will suffer no pain and will cease





limping.





Abnormal Appetite—I have a cow

that does not thrive, when allowed to

run out. She is inclined to chew

bones and old pieces of wood. E. S.,





 





Three lots of ten calves each have

been fed experimentally for six

months to determine the most econom-

ical methods of fattening calves for

market.



Lot one has been self-fed on grain,

with oil meal as a protein supplement,

and corn silage and alfalfa hay ad

libitum; Lot two received a lighter

grain ration with the same amount of





Lansing, Mic11.~Mix equal parts of

fenugreek, gentian, ginger, bicarbon-

ate of soda, common salt, together,

and give her two tablespoon'fuls in

ground feed three times a day. Feed

her plenty of roots.





l.ndigestion.——My cow’s breath has a

bad odor, so has her milk, and if her

milk is mixed with the other cows’





oil meal and more silage and alfalfa. milk it seems to spoil it all. Lately

1‘“ three was fed the same as 10t tWO I have fed it to the chickens. I gave

except that no 011 meal was fed. her one dose of epsom salts. Mrs. W.





This experiment is a continuation

of last year’s experiment, the same ra-

tions being fed under the same condi-

tions. Heifer calves have been fed

this year While steer calves were fed

last year. The calves will be valued

in the lots by market representatives

and the results will be presented for

study.





8., Holly, Mich—Mix equal parts of

gentian, ginger, powdered wood char-

coal, baking soda, and salt together

and give two tablespoonfuls in feed

Ehrge times a day; also change her

ee .





Mange.——I have a Clyde mare eleven

years old. She was troubled with lice

last year, rubbed hair out of tail. What

shall I apply to make it grow? J. C.,

Elkton, Mich—Occasionally apply one

part bichloride of mercury in 1000

parts of water to scalp, then apply

some vaseline to bald parts.





Swine Experiments.



Two series of pig feeding experi;

ments are well along in progress and

will be studied. One series of five

lots of pigs is being used in searching

for the best method of feeding rye

profitably. Also the value of yeast in

the ration is being studied.



In the other series, of five lots, the

pigs are receiving different amounts

of cull beans as the protein supple-

ment to corn.





Horse Feeding Experiment.



One year’s work has been completed

in feeding corn and alfalfa to work

horses. For the past season corn has

been a short crop, and barley is more

plentiful. In feeding alfalfa as a

roughage, a grain high in carbohy-

drates and fat should be used. Twenty

work horses are being fed as follows:



Seven are receiving barley and a1-

falfa, seven are receiving oats and

alfalfa, and six are receiving oats and

barley with alfalfa.



The college prize winning horses

may also be seen, many of them‘with.

foals at foot. Percheron and Belgian

mares with “colts from Range Line

Phoenix and Treviso will make an in-

teresting feature of the day’s visit.

The grand champion mare, Pervenche,

has a splendid filly foal.



The program will begin promptly at

10:30 a. .m. eastern standard time,

With a trip. to the piggery, when the

swine feeding trials will be studied.

From there a short trip to the horse

barns for a look at the stallions, mares

and foals. and back to the work horse

barn for a discussion of the rations

on trial. 5 -



Immediately after lunch, the calf

feeding pens will be visited and the





Rheumatism.—-Can you please tell

me the cause of my red Durham cow

being stiff in all four legs? She has

been that way for the past two

months. ,We think it might be caused

by standing on cement floor. She has

good appetite and comes fresh about

April 25. W. E. D., Evart, Mich—All

four feet may be some sore and pain-

ful, or she may be rheumatic. Give

her a teaspoonful of powdered nitarte

of potash in drinking water or in soft

feed twice a day for fifteen days.





Mange.—Our fine collie dog seems

to be affected with a skin disease

which causes him to scratch himself

very much; he also has a, disagreeable

odor and is growing thin. G. E. D.,

Sunfield, Mich—Clip him, apply one

part lysol to thirty parts of water to

itchy parts of body daily, or apply one

part coal—tar disinfectant in twenty

parts of water to sore parts twice a

day. One part sulphur to four parts

lard is another fairly good remedy, or

lime-and-sulphur dip is well worth a

trial. Kindly understand that mange

is ani ailment which is not very easily

cure .





Scratches.—Ever since last fall my

horse has been troubled with scratch-

es. Mrs. A. W., Chassell, Mich—Ap-

ply one part lysol and fifty parts water

to sore parts twice daily. Give him





a half ounce of Fowler’s Solution in

drinking water or in soft feed twice a





day.





   





Discase’Gen-ms Can’t Stand It





 





 





 





In Bog Pens V





CARBOLA CHEMICAL CO., Inc.

326 Ely Avenue, Long Island City, N. Y.





 

 

   

 





 





Lice, Mites and





[fissures More Milk





Carbola is live stock insurance against

tuberculosis, foot-and-mouth and other

destructive diseases. Carbola will give

you thorough sanitation, increase milk

production, and lower the bacteria: A

year’s supply of Carbola pays for itself

in no time.





More Poultry Profits





Apply Carbola to the walls, ceilings,

cracks and crevices ‘of your poultry

houses. Dust the dry power—just as it

comes in the package—on the dropping

boards, in the litter, in the nests, on the

floor and on the birds themselves. Result

——more light, thorough sanitation, health-

ier fowls', more eggs—and no lice or

mites.





Paints and Disinfect:





Just mix Carbola with water and you

have a liquid disinfectant that dries

pure white. There is no waiting or

straining. It will not flake or peel off.

And it is economical—one pound covers

about one hundred square feet.





Give Carbola a trial. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Your dealer has Carbola or can get it for you. If

not, order direct.



5 lbs. 75c and 1°C postage 20 lbs. $2.50 deliVeI-ed

10 lbs. $1.25 and 15c postage 50 lbs. $5.00 delivered

200 lbs. $18.00 delivered.





Add 25% for Texas, Rocky Mountain States and

Points West.





 





 





 





 





About





Bred





A Herd of Real P





WINNWOOD DISPERSAL '





To Settle Estate





90 Pure-bred Holsteins





in Maplecrest--Ormsby--Segis Lines





One of Michigan’s Best Type Herds, as Proven at Three





Michigan State Fairs





roducers, that will make good for the dairyman in every day work.





They are the “All-the-year-round Kind”, that mean better milk checks. They have

some large records but have not been over-crowded or “burnt Out".



Both Herd Sires to be Sold--Two of Michigan’s Best Sires

Herd Federal Tested and Guaranteed. Write for Illustrated Circular





JOHN H. WINN, Inc.,





Rochester, Michigan





 





dairy calves, 7 weeks old. V DUI'OC Jerseys lgest blood in Michigan headed

y





 





 





“ULSTEIN 0r GUERNSEY $20 each, crated for ship- boar that took second Ant.



ment. Edoewood Dairy Farms. Whitewater. Wis. International. Booking orders for _registered spring



, pigs. Rambler Farms, Harold Wtddu. Baroda. Mich.

15 C.‘i'“.’:‘ “$2.3“? 130‘ 0’e; M' 9°21“; Slut"?



I no ram 0 . cine re . o are .



to furrow in May and



for {all treahenins. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersville, Mich. Large Typg Dumc Sow; Juno. A wonderful bunch



of last fall nilts to breed for ficptomber furrow.





 





Jerseys For Sale





78. of M. dams.





Accredited herd. Smith & Parker.





service. CLYDE A. KERSHAW. Plainwell. Mich.





All from





Bulls

also a few females.





ready for





 





IEGISTERED 0. I. C. GILTS





 





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.





R. D. No..4. Howell. Mich. ready for breeding for fall (arrow. Boars ready for

service. Also some extra good spring pigs, both si-x.

All stock shipped on approval. FRED W. KENNEDY.

JERSEY BULLS '

BUTTER BRED FOR SALE R. No. 2. Plymouth. Mich.





 





 





celebrated Rodney.

at all times at prices





the country. Write t





Herd headed by Maxwalton Mack, a good son of the I





you to inspect one of the good brooding plants of





 





Silver Creek. Allegan County, . Michigan 0 I (:98 20 (‘lioice March boar pigs at $15.00

- ~ - ule'll. for 30 days 0 CLOVER

G f LEAF STOCK FARM, Monroe. Mich.

ot redson Farms

0 1 C98 giant-mill pig?3 iron: 2 litters of 27

- - ‘ . . 5 . . . THOMPSON.

Shorthorns Rockford. Michigan.





 





. ‘ . (vs. 4 good last fall boars and this spring

Giohgt bagelsrgazgmtihrlrbnlcswbminifig ' pigs, from very good strong stock. 3a mile west,

‘ ' pf depot. OTTO SCHULZE. Nathwlle. Mich. .





 





o the Superintendent.





 





MILKING SHORTHORNS





Gotfredson Farms Ypsilanti, Mich. - either sex, by the great B0”, The

’ Fall Pigs Wolverine. Priced reasonable. Best

of dams. W. E. Lmngsmn. Parma. Mich.





 





 





0118.

R. No. 3.





Gentle and broke to lead.

Howard City.





 





‘ . . . . .. . Fall boar Dig. An excellent

Good indmduals. Best milking lllhelltanto. Both POLAND CHIN in . . .

. .. . dwidual of splendid breed.

Slick Allwlicfibes. GEO. T. FULLER. R. l0. Battle ing. WESLEY HILE, lonia, Mich.



F O R S A L E HORSES

Registered Red l’olled Bull, 4 years old. A good





 





Geo. L, Heimbeckcr. FARMERS ArFTENTION!





We have some extra good Percheron and Belgian





Mich.





 





E. MORRISH. R. 5.





SHORTHORNS 0F MERIT





Stallions of size and quality. Intornational 8: State

Fair prize winners. If your locality is in need of a

good Stallion, you can easily secure one on our

breeding association~scrvivo foe plan. FRED G.





Rodnoy's Model in ser-

vice. Bulls for sale. VI.

Flint. Mich.





 





FOR SALE





Fold kam p, Manchester. Mich.





STEVENS 00.. Inc., Breckenridge, Mich.





FRANClSCO FARM BELGIANS





 





Brown Swiss Bulls, service-

able age or younger. A. A.





 





We now offer the 2—yr.—old registered bay. Belgian





 





HOGS Stallion, "Invincible Don." A remarkable individual.

weight. 1,050 lbs. at 21 months. P. P. POPE. Mt.

Pleasant, Mich.. R. 3.





 





Lakefield





Super Colonel.





Lakeficld Fem,





 





 





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We offer fall boars and open slits. A choice son of

Bred sows for summer and fall fan-ow.





 





Farm Dlll'OCS RY a Michigan Farmer





Classified Liner. They





- Clarkston, Mich. bring results.
GRAIN QUOTATIONS

~ ' ' Tuesday, May 12. S -

Wheatg, ’



Detroit—No. 1 red $1.84; No. 2 red



$1.83; No. 2 white $1.81; No. 2 mixed

“0311.81, M $1 62%@ '



‘ _ icago.—— ay . 1.62-7; July



i1;§0%@1.51;' September at $i.42%@





’Toledor—Wheat $1.84@1.85.





Corn. —-

Detroit—No. 3 yellow $1.18; No. 4

yellow $1.13. .

Chicago—May $11514; July $1.18@

1.18%.; September $1.151A.@1.15%.





Oats.

Detroit—No. 2 white at 53c; No. 3





c

Chicago—May 45%0; July 45@

45%0; September 44%c.

Rye.

Detroit—No. 2, $1.19.

Chicago—May $1.22; July $1.13V4;

September $1.06%.

Toledo—$1.17. ’

Beans.

Detroit—Immediate and

shipment $5.30@5.40 per cwt. ,

Chicago—Navy, choice $6.25; red

kidneys $10@10.50.

pea $5.75@6.25;





prompt





New York—Choice

red kidneys ‘$9.50@10





Barley.

Detroit.-—-Malting 95c; feeding 89c.

Buckwheat.

Detroit.——-$1.90@1.95.



Seeds.





Detroit—Prime red clover cash at

$16; August alsike $12.50; timothy $3.

Hay.



Detroit.——No. 1 timothy $16@16.50;

standard $15.50@16; light clover mixed

$15.50@16; No. 2 timothy at $14.50@

15.50; No. 1 clover and No. 1 clover

mixed $13@14; wheat and oat straw

$9.50@10; rye straw $10.50@11.





Feeds.





Detroit. Bran $35@37; standard

middlings at $38; fine middlings $42;

cracked corn $56; coarse cornmeal at

$45; chop 39. .



Apples.





Chicago prices on apples: Northern

Spies at $10 bbl; Baldwins at $6.50;

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 at $6.50; Ben Davis $5@





5.50.

WHEAT





The govenment report on the win-

ter wheat crop showed only 445,000,000

bushels against 590,000,000 bushels

harvested last year. Winter abandon-

ment was twice as large as usual, and

the growing condition as of May 1

was only 77 per cent of normal against

84.8 per cent last year and a ten-year

average of 85.2 per cent. Spring Wheat

crop reports are mostly favorable, al-

though more complaints that rain is

needed in parts are coming forward.

Estimates on the \acreage are mixed,

but, if it is as large as the “intentions

report” and an average yield per acre

is harvested, the yield would be only

255,000,000 bushels. This would mean

a total .crop of both winter and spring

wheat of 700,000,000 bushels, which

would leave only 50,000,000 to 75,000,-

000 bushels for export. For the last

five years, actual exports in the first

three months of the crop year from

July to September have averaged 90,-

000,000 bushels. The possibility of a

carry~over of only 60,000,000 to 70,000,—

000 bushels against 100,000,000 bushels

in each of the last two years accentu-

ates the close adjustment of supply

unless there is great improvement in

the crop prospect. Such conditions

point to the strongest price situation

in a number of years.





RYE





Rye is disappearing rapidly and a

close cleanup of the old crop is a prac-

tical certainty. Most of the available

stock is in the visible supply which

has decreased nearly 50 per cent since

the end of February and is now down

to 12,000,000 bushels. Over 4,000,000

bushels were cleared for export in. the

week ending May 2, and 10,000,000

bushels were shipped out in the last

three weeks. Reports from abroad

point to further foreign needs. The

May 1 rye forecast was 58,000,000

bushels against 62,000,000 bushels last

month, 63,000,000 bushels harvested in

1924, and a ten-year average produc-

tion of 68,000,000 bushels.





CORN





The corn market has been strong

most of the last week. Deliveries on

May contracts were eagerly taken, de-





 





 





 





the visible supply is Shrinking rapidly.

Stocks on ocean passage are low and

it will be several weeks efore "new

Argentine corn reaches Europe in vol-

ume, while our prices haveheen close

to a shipping difference under Liver-‘

pool so that a. little export business is

possible. The weather in the last

week has been too cool for the proper

germination of the new crop, especial-

ly since much seed of low vitality was

used. Character of the weather in the

next month will be critical in determ~

ining the start of the new crop.

OATS-



Oats prices have made good gains

in the last week. Export sales of

around 2,000,000 bushels, another ood

decrease in the visible supply an ac-

ceptance of deliveries on May con-

tracts by shippers who apparently

have been Waiting for the grain, were

the strengthening influences. 'Unofli'-

cial estimates on remaining stocks of

cats, however, are about 75,000,000





. bushels more than last year and there





are still 48,000,000 bushels in the vis-

ible supply. The oats market is not

likely to go a great deal higher unless

it is pulled up by the other grains.

Crop news is mostlrfavomble.





SEEDS





The seeding season for clovers and

grass has been practically completed.

Prices on most seeds were well main-

tained. Reports on the new crop are

mixed. The dry spring has not been

very favorable for clover in many sec-

tions and may affect the seed crop





later.

F BEDS





The feed market was unchanged

last week. Wheat feeds are very firm

as offerings for immediate shipment

are light. The output of these efeds

is the smallest in years.





HAY





Seasonal dullness prevails in the hay

market General rains recently have

improved pastures and country takings

have been reduced. The hay crops are

in general in only fair shape according

to the latest crop report of the depart-





 





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Bean prices have had a sharp ad'-

vance and are quoted at $5.65 per 100

pounds, f. o. b Michigan points, for

Small deliveries to

elevators together with improved de-

mand, were responsible. There is

some question whether the upturn Will

be maintained, however, as it is not





’clear whether the demand .was specu- _





lative or from the consuming trade?”

Some jobbers report that neither the

wholesale grocers nor canners are buy-

ing feely. The course of the market

depends a good deal on the quantity

of beans still left in Michigan.





BUTTER .





Butter markets steadied somewhat

after the rather sharp decline of last

week. The approach of the new sea-

son and fear of prospective larger sup-

plies of butter were almost wholly re-

sponsible for the break as, statisti-

cally, the market was practically un-

changed. Receipts at the four leading

markets are beginning to reflect the

increase indicated by recent produc-

tion reports. Full grass butter will

probably make an appearance within

two weeks. Consumption of butter

has responded to the generally lower

retail prices and requirements for im-





-mediate distributio‘n are apparently





equal to arrivals. It is believed that

prevailing butter prices are not far

fro mthe new season basis so that, al-

though lower prices are probable, var-

iations will not be very wide until the

new season is under way. Prices on

92-score creamery were: Chicago 400;

New York 420. In Detroit fresh cream-

ery sells for 38-410 per pound.





POULTRY AND EGGS





The supply of fresh eggs in distrib-

uting markets is gradually declining

in line with the recent advices of

lighter collections in the country. Re-

ceipts at the four leading markets last

week were about 20 per cent smaller





 





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Tuesday, May 12.





CHICAGO





Hogs.





Receipts 17,000. Market slow, most-

ly 25@350 higher. Lighter sales held

to 25c advance. Packers doing little;

early bulk good and choice 140 to 225-

]b. average $13@13.30; tops $13.35;

early bulk 250 to 325—lb. butchers at

$13.10@13.25; packing sows largely at

$11.75@12.50; strong weight slaughter

pigs, mostly $12.50@12.75.



Cattle. ~.



Receipts 8,000. Fed steers steady to

250 higher on upturn; tops $11.40 paid

for baby beef; heifers average about

$6; big weighty steers, best at $10.60;

long yearlings $11@11.10; she stock

strong; bulls strong to 25c higher;

vealers 250 up; mostly $8.75@10.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 16,000. Fat lambs opening

around 250 lower; good to choice 79

to 86—1b. clippers $13.50@13.75; best

held higher; weighty throw-outs $11.50

@1175; no wool lambs sold; 16 cars

of good to choice 69 to 73-lb. California

springers $16.25; sorts ranging from

$8.20@10; weighty throwouts $15.50;

culls $13.50; fat sheep are unchanged;

good clipped ewes $8.





DETROIT





Cattle.



Receipts 358. Market steady to 250

lower. "

Good to choice yearlings,



dry-fed .‘. .............. $ 9.00@10.50

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 8.75@ 9.00





Handyweight butchers 8.50@ 9.25

Mixed steers and heifers 7.50@ 8.00

Handy light butchers . . . . 6.50@ 7.75

Light butchers .......... 5.25@ 6.50

Best cows . . . . ........ 5.50@ 7.50

Butcher cows . . . ..... . . 5.75@ 6.75

Cutters .................. 3.00@ 3.50

Canners . ; . . . .......... .. 2.50@ 3.00

Choice bulls ............. 5.00@ 650

Heavy bologna bulls . . 4.50 5.75

Stock bulls . . . . . ........ 4.00 5.00

Feeders ..... 5.50@ 7.75

Stockers 5.50@ 6.00





 





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

Veal Calves.





Receipts 686. Market steady.

Best ..................... $11.50@12.00

Others .................. 5.00@11.00





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 541. Market steady.

Best lambs .............. $13.00@13.25





Fair lambs ....... 11.50@12.50

Light to common ........ 7.00@10.25

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 ............. 13.006.313.25





Hogs. .

Receipts 1,601. Market is 25@35c





higher.

Mixed hogs, heavy y’,rkrs.$13.50@-13.60

Pigs.................... 13.

Little yorkers ........... 1325‘

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

Roughs ................. 10.75@10.90

Stags ................... 7.00@ 7.25

BUFFALO

Hogs.



Receipts 5,510. Hogs closing strong.



Tops at $13.50; bulk at $13.40;





others at $14; 1 load $13.15; heavy

sold at $13.75@13.85; medium $14.35;

light $13.50@14.25; light lights $12.50

@1260; pigs $13; packing sows and

roughs $11.75@12.



Cattle.



Receipts were 50. The market is

steady; steers steady to 250 lower.

Steers from 1,100 lbs. upat $8.50

@1075; steers 1,100‘lbs. down at

$6.50@10.25; load of bulk yearlings up

to $10.85; heifers $5506.79; cows $2@

7.50; bulls $4@6.25; butchers steady.



Shoe and Lambs.





Receipts 1,0 0. Tops $13.50; culls





‘ $12.50 down ; best clipped lambs $13@





13.50; yearlings'at $13.50@14; clipped

$6@7; clipped lambs $13.75@14; aged

wethers $8.50@9; clipped ewes $7@8;





\ best clipped yeaé-lings $10@11.





- alves. . g

Receipts 300. Tops at $12; culls

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dirti'és offichecks at 261;“; fresh

firsts 28% 296; ordinary firsts 271,40.

Live poultry, hens 26c; broilers .450@

52c; roosters 14c; ducks 25¢; geese

13c; turkeys 280.. - . ‘



Detroit.—='-Eggs, fresh ‘candled and

graded 28% 291,60.

broilers 63@6 0; heavy hens 29%;" light

520; roosters 1484c; ducks 25c; geese

16@18¢; ducks 32c; turkeys 35c. » _





POTATOES





- increased supplies of new potatoes,

together with rather heavy arrivals of

old stock gave the market an unsettled

tone last week, although prices were

slightly higher. A fair share of old

potatoes arriving shows considerable

sprout, partly a'result of inferior stor-

age, and finds very slow sale. North-

ern round whites, U. S. No. 1, were

quoted at 75 to 95c per 100 pounds in

the Chicago carlot market. Florida

Spaulding Rose, U. S. No. 1, were held

at $5.50 per barrel in the same market.





WOOL





The wool market is. still weak but a

better undertone seems to be develop-

ing. Some distress wools are being

picked up by speculators and mills are

showing great interest in the offerings.

The London auction‘ started 10 to 30

per cent lower than the previous ser-

ies in January, and many offerings

were withdrawn because of low bids,

and the sale is to be closed on May

14. Sales at Adelaide and Brisbane

have been cancelled. Prices at Boston

are said to be back close to the low

point last July. Buying at country

points is practically at a standstill.

Sales in Idaho and Nevada as low as

38 cents have been reported, but many

growers are refusing bids under 42c.

During the contracting fever in mid-

winter, 50 to 55c were ruling prices.





HORSES





Demand for farm chunks has prac-

tically disappeared. Horses weighing

around 1,400 pounds seldom bring over

$125 at Chicago. Drafters and heavy

wagon horsesa re wanted, however.

1,800 pounds or over are still eagerly

Heavy horses pulling the beam‘ at

sought at $200 to $250. And there is

a good demand for 1,600 or 1,700—pound‘

wagon horses at a range of $175 to





$225.

GRAND RAPIDS





A drop in egg receipts resulting





from hens going broody was followed





this week with an upturn in paying

prices on the Grand Rapids market.

On the other hand poultry quotations

declined under pressure of heavier

receipts. Eggs 26@27c; heavy fowls

22@25c; light fowls-18@20c; heavy

broilers 5063550; light broilers 40@

45c; butter-fat 42c lb; asparagus $1.75

dozen bunches; spinach $1.25@1.65 a

bu; rhubarb 50@900 bu; radishes 40@.

500 dozen bunches; green onions 12%

@20c dozen bunches; potatoes 40@

45c bu; parsnips 500 bu; leaf lettuce

150 lb; hothouse tomatoes $3 basket:

cucumbers $2 dozen; pork 15@151,éc;





veal 12@13c; beef 1361714c; spring

lamb 30c; yearling lamb 20c; wheat





$1.66 bu; beans $4.90 cwt.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Spring vegetables had a ready sale.

The demand for carrots and root crops

was off a little, and potatoes were

slow sellers. Live” poultry was taken»

readily and there was a steady de-

mand for- eggs. Apples $1.75@3.75 a

bu; asparagus $1.50@2.25 per dozen

bunches; beets, round 50@65c a. bu;

cabbage 75c@$1 bu; carrots 75c@$1.25

bu; horseradish $1.50@2.50 bu; onion

sets $7608.50 bu; green‘onions 40@

500 doz. bunches; parsnips 650@1 bu;

potatoes, No. 1, 60@65c bu; radishes,

outdoor $1.75@2 dozen bunches; rhu-

barb, outdoor 50@8OC dozen bunches;

butter 50@60c; spinach $1@1.25 bu;

pansies, $1@1.25 15-box flat; celery

plants $1.25 15-box flat; cabbage plants

$1@1.25 15-box flat; tomato plants at

$1.25 ’15—box‘flat; eggs, wholesale 3061)

31c; retail 33@35c; ~hens, wholesale

31@32c; retail 33@35c. Leghorn hens,

wholesale 30c; broilers, wholesale 62c ;

veal 16@18c; dressedwltry, hens 138 ..

@40c; springers 38@ 5 ;‘ broilers .806.





 





   

 

 





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BUTTER PRO/DUCTION LOWER.





UTTER production is running about



. five, per cent lighter than last year,

and the April butter prices averaged

around live cents higher than last

year. Cheese production in Wisconsin

is also less, and cheese prices are

Prices of

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same as last year, but in the eastern

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HOLSTEIN BREEDERS MEET AT

GRAND RAPIDS.





.





E fortieth annual convention of

the Holstein-Friesian Association

ofAmerica and sixth national Hol-



stein sale is to be held at Grand Rap-

ids, June 1—4.



Headquarters and sessions will be



at the Pantlind Hotel.

Monday, June 1.



10:00 A. M.—Meeting of board of

directors.



1:00 P. M.—.—Registration dele—

gates and visitors.



4:00 P. M.——Reception and dinner to

Holsteiners given by Joseph Brewer.

at the Blythefield Farms Country Club.



Tuesday, June 2. .



10:00 A. M.—Meeting of Holstein

breeders and delegates of the Holstein-

Friesian Association of America; M.

W. Wentworth, president of the Mich-

igan Holstein-Friesian Association, in-

troducing, “The Keys of Grand Rap-

ids,” Bayor Elvin Swarthout; “Wel-

come to Michigan,” Hon. D. D. Aitken,

Flint, Mich; response, Hon. Frank O.

Lowden, president of the Holstein-

Frieslan Association of America. The

afternoon will be devoted to a general

discussion of problems before the as-

sociation. Members as well as dele-

gates to have the floor. Lead-off top-

ic, “The Extension Service,” Fred

Koenig, director.



5:00 P. M.~—Barbecue and entertain—

ment at “Maryland Farms,” Dudley

Waters, proprietor. ‘ '.



Wednesday, June 3.



10:00 A. M.—Annual convention of

delegates. Election of officers; consid-

eration ,of resolutions; amendments to

the by-laws, and other business as

mentioned in the call.



6:30 P. M.——Annual banquet of the

Holstein—Friesian Association of Amer-

ican, Pantlind Hotel. Special features!

Real talks! Fun!



Thursday, June 4.



10:00 A. M.—Sixth national sale.



Sixty head of tops consigned from

eleven. states. Each animal accepted

only after passing high entry require-

ments as to records and after passing

rigid inspection as to type by com-

petent judges.



The sale will be held at the West

Michigan Fair Grounds, only four

miles from convention headquarters.



Regular ten-minute street car ser-

vice to the fair grounds. Special cars

will also leave direct from headquar-

ters. To drive, go north on Monroe

avenue to North Park, cross river

bridge, follow cement road.



General Committee.



M. W. \Ventworth, Battle Creek, H.

W. Norton, Jr., Lansing; Dudley Wa-

ters, Grand Rapids.



Sub-Committees.



Information, Lee Bierce, secretary

Grand Rapids Association of Com-

merce; reception, W. R. Roach, Grand

Rapids; autos (parking andstorage),

K. K. Vining, county agricultural

agent, Grand Rapids; sale committee-

man, H. W. Norton, Jr., of Lansing;

manager, J. G. Hays, East Lansing;





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“cashier, W. R. Harper, "Middleville;





cattle and barn superintendent, John

C. Buth, Grand Rapids; publicity and

ex-officio member of all committees,

J. G. Hays, P.'O. Box 1018, East Lan-

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KENT COUNTY‘JERSEY CATTLE

.CLUBHOLos ANNUAL

:: MEETING.





-HOW Jerseys were handled on the

Isl nd of Jersey,” was the theme



of rof. O. E. Reed’s address at

the annual meeting of Kent’s Jersey

breeders. Professor Reed also discuss-

ed the new rules and regulations for

the operation of cow testing associa-

tions. These rules have been promul-

gated by the dairy department at the

M. A. C. in order to safeguard the rec-

ords made in cow testing association

work. These met with the approval

of the breeders present.



E. Dennison, field man for the

American Jersey Cattle Club, gave one

of his characteristic good talks on af-

fairs in the Jersey world. Sales of

cattle, county organization, bull asso-

ciations and cow testing association

work all came in for good discussion.

A study of the map of Michigan show-

ing Jersey activities surprised many of

those present. Mr. Dennison’s talk on

the organization of bull associations

created much interest. He will visit

the county- early in May and with

County Agent K. K. Vining will at-

tempt to line up one or two groups.

Mr. Vining discussed the organization

of calf clubs in Kent county and the

work of the Jerseys in cow testing as-

sociation work.



The following officers were elected:

President, Maurice Post, of Rockford;

vice-president, S. J. Cowan, of Rock-

ford; Secretary-treasurer, Ivy Smith,

of Caledonia; directors, Robert Farrell,

of Lowell; Fred Eardley, of Grand

Rapids; Arthur Edison, Grand Rapids.





EXTRA POSTAL CHARGE 0N BABY

CHICKS.





HE ruling of the post office depart-



ment requiring all parcel post



shipments of baby chicks to bear

a twenty-five-cent spread handling

charge. is without legal basis, says E.

B. Reid, Washington representative of

the American Farm Bureau Federa-

tion. The law makes it plain that this

special handling charge is to be Op~

tional with the shipper. The post of-

fice department, however, takes a dif-

ferent view of the law.



In reply to an inquiry from Mr. Reid,

Postmaster-General New says that,

“because of their character it has al-

ways been necessary in order that day-

old chicks may reach their destination

alive, to give parcels containing them

the same expeditious handling and de—

livery accorded to first-class mail mat-

ter. Therefore the twenty-five-cent

special postage charge is applicable to

parcels of day—old chicks. I am sure

you will appreciate that the slower

service would not be the desire of

shippers, and yet the slower service

that is given ordinary parcel post mat—

ter is all that could be accorded to

baby chicks in case the twenty-five-

cent special charge were'not paid.”



It is indicated by this attitude of

the postmaster—general that the extra

twenty-five-cent handling charge is to

be applied to all sorts of perishables

if given the same transportation facili-

ties that were provided before the pos-

tal raise went into effect.





SEED POTATO GROWERS MEET IN

JUNE.





 





HE 1925 annual meeting of the



Michigan Certified Seed Potato



wers’ Association will be held at

Cadillac on Friday, June 12, it was an-

nounced this week by J. W. W'eston,

corresponding secretary.



One feature of the meeting will be

the discussion of a proposed change in

the by—laws establishing a reserve

fund. A proposed five-year crop con-

tract will also come up for considen

ation. The season’s pool will be re-

ported on by the sales agency with the

financial report on final settlements.

An educational program is being pre-

pared for the meeting—Cook.





COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.





 





Guernseys.



May 27——Michigan Guernsey Breeders’

Association Annual Consignment

Sale, Agricultural College, East Lan“

sing, Mich.



Holsteins. . _



June 4—Holstein—Friesian ASSOClatIOD

of America holds Sixth National

Sale at Grand.Rapids, Mich.





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REAL ESTATE





IMMEDIATE POSSESSION—One to ten .Vcars. $9

per acre rental. rich loam. going farm includes com—

plete equipment, teams. stocks, 100 acres. line house,

big basement barns. orchards, etc, joining north side

Elmwood Inter-urban Stop (f‘ay ('Ondllctorr—IIO tick—

ets-22 Pine Lake and Owosso cars stop daily). .8

cent fares, East Lansing. 27 acres. spring crops in.

free. large meadows. Add modern 50-foot hon house.

Come see owner at said farm. Will also sell 251

Gunson Street. East Lansing. house. garage. corner

lot near Campus. 53,000. Save this advertismmnt.





WANTED—to hear from owner of farm or unimproved

land for sale. 0. K. Hawley. Baldwin, Wis.





80-ACRE FARM FOR SAI.E~N0 debt. splendid soil;

fair buildings. near pavement; stock & tools included.

$0,500. 8. L. Bigford. Box 46. Flint. Mich.





 





 





GET MY NEW LOW PRICES on choice Manchu soy

beans. Vern McKinney. Bluflton. Indiana.





 





GENUINE improved Robust seed beans. F: Dertt





& Son. Wheeler. Mich.





 





CERTIFIED Petoskey Seed

C. P. Reed. Howell. Mich.





Potatoes.





 





 





PET STOCK





FOR SALE—Extra fine Sable and White Scotch Cold

he puppies. Brod for beauty and intelligence. I‘.

A. Green. Millington, Mich.





 





 





COLLIES. sharp watchful, four months old. Milo





Storms. Millersburg. Mich.





 





 





POULTRY





strain foundation stock.

$5.00 per 50; 810 DC





BARRED ROCKS-ParkS

Hatching eggs $2.00 per 15:





 





100. Prepaid by parcel post. R. G. Kirby. R. 1.

East Lansing. Mich.



SNOVVY WHITE ROCKS. high quality. Eggs pre-

paid. $1.40. 15: $3.75. 50; $7.00. 100.





Mrs. Eafl

Dehnhofl'. Vanburen, Ohio. »





 





HATCHING EGGS, White Rocks, Buff Owingtonl.

Winners of egg laying contest. Send for circular.

Walnut Hill Farm. Milford. Mich.





BABY CHICKS





 





JUNE LEGHORNS are profitable if properly bred.

A_fl0ck of our pullets, hatched July 9th, last season

laid first egg November 18th, laying 50% by Decom-

bcr 13th and kept it up. Eycry chick produced on





 





 





FOR SALE—440-acro farm. near Detroit. on Grand our farm. Every hen trapnestcd continuously Ev

River Road; best land: building With latest improve- male pedigreed from dams oxcr 249 eggs. All big:

ments, With stock and tools. Apply Cluny Stock blood trsted. 100% live delivery guaranteed. W. 8.

Farm. R. F. D. 2. Fowlcrnlle. Mich. Hannah & Son. R. 10. Grand Rapids. Mich.

MISCELLANEOUS 131901) TI‘JISTIED two years Barred Rock and White

' . ' .07.; mm Ciicts, World (‘hampion laying strains.

RICH MANS Corn Harvester. poor mans pnce— Special reduced prices, May and June. Satisfaction

only $25.09 W101 bundle tying attachment. “T69 cat- guaranteed. Asoltine Poultry Farm. 1827 Belden

alog showmg pictures of harvester. Box 528. Saline, Grand Rapids. Mich. ‘ ’





Kans.





DELCO LIGHT AND POWER PLANT; two motors:

water pump; Washing Machine: Flat Iron; A 1 shape;

$350. Warren. Idle Hour Club. St. Clair Flats. Mich.





BOYS~One bow. two arrows.

all for 50 cents Post Paid.

Hart. Mich.





one Indian finger trap.

Indian Art Store. Good





FOR. SALE—1 steam engine 18 H.P. I grain mill

34-50, first class running condition. Sell the two

for $1500. Look them over before buying elsewhere.

Spicer Bros. Howell. Mich. R No. 7. Box 00.





For par-





FARM DITCH DIGGER—Build your own.

Street.





ticulars write C. G. Alden. 225 E. Tcnth

Erie, Pennsylvania.





 





TOBACCO





HOMESI’UN TOBACCOmChewing. live pounds. $1.50:

ton, $2.50; smoking, the pounds, $1.25: ten. $2; pipe

free, pay when received, satisfaction guarantewd. Co-

operative Tobacco Growcrs. Mnxons Mill, Kentucky.





rich,

$1.50;

l'lan-





LOOK HEREI Guaranteed. fragrant, mellow,

homespun tobacco. Five pounds chewing.

smoking, $1.25. Samples, 10c. (‘lark's River

tation. 100. Hazcl, Kcntucky.





HOMESI’UN TOI’.A(‘(‘0~ Chewing. 5 lbs.. $1.50: 10.

$2.50. Smoking. 5. $1.25: 10. $2. Mild. 10. $1.50.

Pay when receiycd. F. Gupton. Bardwell. Ky.





 





 





 





BABY CHICKS from flocks blood-tested i’or Basilio"

White Diarrhea. All nooks tested—second test on

necks and Bods. All popular varieties. Ask

Catalogue. Pierce Hatchery. Jerome. Michigan.





SUPERIOR CHICKS—9c up. 12 varieties.

layers. Delivery guaranteed. Postpaid. Bank role!"

ences. Catalogue Free. Superior Hatchery. Box 856.

Windsor. Mo.





SATISFIED CHICKS—Hollywood, Tancred strain} a.

(T. White Leghoms. Brown Leghoms. Anconas. Barred

Rooks, 8 cents and up. Ship two times a. week.

Circular free. Queen Hatchery, chland. Mich.





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S. C. BUFF LEGIIORN CHICKS from selected 3000'

on free range, only one breed. Prices reasonable.

Circular free. Willard Webster. Bath. Mich.





 





BABY CHICKS. Supcrior Ringlct Barred Rocks. 120:

Rose Comb Reds. 120: White chhoms. 9c. Wyndo

ham’s Ideal Hatchery. Tiifin. Ohio. ‘





 





RI(‘HARDSON'S Rocky Ridge Baby Chicks. Barred

Rooks and Reds. from stock blood tested for Bacils

lary White Diarrhea. Hanover. Mich.





 





READ Shady Lawn l'oultry Farm Ad on Page 664.





 





 





TURKEYS





A FORTUNE IN 'I‘IJRIiIu‘YS propcrly managed. Hun-

(lrcds of lostimonials say we have the only known

('uro for Blackhoarl and Iiycr trouble. 24 capsules

and i‘ccd formula, $1. $3.50 I00 'I‘urkcy Herbs Rem—





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK cdy. 810 South Main, Santa Ana. i‘alif.



2.000.000 CABBAGE PLANTS. June. July delivery. TURKEY EGGSV—Mammoth Bronze. Bourbon Bed.



Strong. stocky guaranteed. Wukcficld. (fopcmnagcn. Narragansett and White Holland. You should place



Flat Dutch. Bullhead. Mail props-id. 100, 45m: 300. your order early. Write Walter Bros. Powhatan



$1.00: 500. $1.25: 1000, $21.25. Express. 5000, $7.50. Point, Ohio.



Cauliflower and Aster, 100, 70 cts. Buy ncar home



grown. List free. W. .l. Mycrs, Rt. 2. Alussillon,



()hio_ AGENTS WANTED



SWEET I'O’I‘ATO PLANTS. Varictios, I’m-Io Rico. ANYBODY ("AN SELL THIS~Sparo or whole time.



Nancy Hall and Bit: SW"! Jl’l'sm'. Tomato Plants. Men and womcn gladly pay a $10 bill for complete



varietiI-s, lrcutcr Baltimore. Livingston Globe and yoar's protection under our $5.000 Accident and Sick-



Earlizmu. l'riccs l'urccl l’ost paid. 500, $1.00: l000. ncss I’olicy paying $25 wcukly boncfit. Big Opportu-



$3.00. Express Collect. $1.50 001' 1000. “'0 ship tho nity; Rig Commissions; Big Company: Salary and



size of plant you wish. Satisfaction guaranlccd. Bonus. Addrcss Great Lakes Commonwealth mor-



'l‘il‘mn Potato (“(mlpany. lnc., Tii‘lon, (la. illIOlI. Michigan Agcncy 314-315 General Nee sitios

Bldg. Detroit. Mich.



FROS’I‘I’IIOOI“ CABBAGE. onions and tonmlmN.



Strong, Hardy plums. I’mmpl shipment. Halvisl‘ur- NOT “I‘mITRHI rVVunIi'd men for all girl; . _



tion gunrunnzgl. 100 40.1, 500 5.1.2.5, loco taco. mm m 5,.“ farm“ and MW“ ”mph ‘Thguggnlggcg,



Rapper, ’100 oliv, l,.000 $2.50.‘ All pmtpmd. hast :ii.l.l..\'fii'(l customcrs in I)l'lroit,. Ono sale a. (lay means



'19an 11am, to, 11mm, Imus. $54.00 a, wcck. ()111' Autonmtic Rail-bearing Cleaner

boats them all. Machine sells on its merit. Answer

at. once. Vital Mfg. (‘o., 1127 \Vashington Blvdw





FINE FIELD GROW’N (‘ARRAGE PLANTS Itcady«

$1.25 thousand; 5000, $5.00. 'I‘omnio $2.00 thousand;

5000, $7.50 (‘ale Fine l’lunts. Satisfaction guaralr

feed or money/refunded. .I. 1’. Frank‘

lin. Va.





(‘ouncill (‘o..





SEED (‘ORN~—Dun(-an Ycllow Dent. Winncr of

Sweepstakes ten ears in Michigan 1024, and sen-0nd

prize single car at Chicago. Also M. A. 1'. Dent





 





 





and Extra curly VVhiie Cap. Grrmination guaram

teed. .Iohn (‘. Wilk. St. Louis, Mich.



TESTED WHITE DENT SEED CORN. Michigan

grown. 05% germination, buttcd and tipped. $3.00

per bushel. Mail orders filled promptly. Mlllott

Elevator Co., Lansing. Mich. Route lNo. 6.



FOR SALE—Seed Corn. Golden Glow. 97% will





Price $5.00 per bushel of 50 lbs.





grow 1924 crap.

3. S. Burrill. Reese.





shelled corn. Bags 40c extra.

Mich.





SEED BEANS—Improved Robust Certified. hand-

picked. at farm. Further particulars on request. A

. . Owosso, Mich.





EARLY CABBAGE PLANTS—Thousand $2.00 packed

with moss. postpaid. Dahlladale Farm. Ocean View,

Virginia.



END FOR $1.00 collection of Gladiola. Glendale

gladiole Farms. Allen. Mich.





Detroit. Min-n.





 





FREE TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. Get three good re—

shonsihlo farmers to go with you to inspect California

state approved lands Opportunity for one good man

in each community to join largest land selling organs

imition in U. S. Write for details. Herman 13.11539.

1105 Transportation Bldg. Chicago. Ill.





 





WANTED ~-("ouniy agent. man or woman. to sell

guarantwd and Nationally advertised article used by

Mary fanncr. Good incomv. Purity Stamping 00..

Battle Creek. Mich.





 





AGENTS -—Our new Household Cleaning Device washes

and dries windows. sweeps, cleans walls. scrubs, mops.

Costs less than brooms. Over half profit. erin

Harper Brush Works, 173 3rd St... Fairficld. Iowa.





‘ HELP WANTED



TEACHER OR COLLEGE STUDENT for summer

months: splendid experience: pleasant Work: 8273 for

78 days. Write A. Rheluheimer. 309 Park Ave. Bldg..

Detroit, Mich.





A Michigan Farmer Liner

Gets Results.





 





 





 





 

 





$1 per bu.





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This great web of steel will join

11"}hi‘lTa'de1phia with C a. m d e n





 





 





 





 





 





 





A typical. street scene on market day in Sofia, capitol of Bulgaria.

Conflicting reports tell of fierce battles in these streets executed

in reprlsal oi recent bomb outrages.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York harbor is expected to

be abolished in accordance with new immigration inspection, when

the aliens will be examined at embarkation points. ‘





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This Purdue University hen from

Argentine has parrot plumage,

and lays purple eggs.





 





 





 





 





 





 





M. Sikersky, the Russian inventor and builder of this. Sikersky

bi-plane, plays one of two baby grand pianos transported, togeth-

er with six passengers, from New York to Washington.





 





 





 





 

 





est hit by another estructive





 





\Vheeling, W. Va, was one of the cities hard-

storm which

passed through that portion of the U. S.





 





 





 





 





Mrs. Calvin Coolidge d ons her uniform as hon~

orary President of the Girl Scouts in attend-

ing Girl Scout benefl t party.





Mrs. Aida De Costa Root originated

the idea of May 1 as National

Child Health Day.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





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Lavoye, Wyoming, has begun a mass moving of four and one~half

miles to a new townsite. The movement of' 1,800 inhabitants

was ordered by U. S. Court of Wyoming to vacate oil land.





 





 





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Painleve, Premier and Minister of War. President Deumergue is "

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