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VOLUME CLXIV NUMBER TWENTY TWO





DETROIT, MAY 30, 1925

CURRENT COMMENT





O the American





 





 





some Ails there is some

thing sacred about 3.



Of the letter. In this coun<

Mails try a wholesome re-





spect has been built

up around personal messages forward—

ed through the mails.



But this respect does not obtain in

some countries. . There the opening

and reading of sealed letters is com-

mon. “Cracking seals” is the appela—

tion given to this practice.



The soul of the average American

would be filled with indignation, and

timid persons would revolt at the

thought of third persons peeking into

their “personal correspondence.”



Yet, here in America, exactly this

thing happens to some 21,000,000 let-

ters each year. The practice will con-

tinue so long as letter writers fail to

properly place legible return addresses

upon the envelopes.



These letters are opened, not for the

purpose of detecting any crime or

scandal in which the writer or recipi-

ent might be interested, but to learn,

if possible, the identity of the writer

or the addressee. This is done at the

Dead Letter Office, and, out of one in

every five, some clue is found that en-

ables the postmen to deliver the mes-

sage.



This occasions a tax upon the post-

ofiice department. In one city the

time of four hundred persons are nec-

essary to handle these poorly address-

ed letters. It costs another city $500

daily to do this unnecessary work.



Also, senders fail to get their letters

to the place they wish. Further, three

million dollars of checks, drafts and

money orders each year never reach

their owners; besides, thousands of

dollars in cash are removed annually

from such letters by the postal clerks.



The cure is easy. You know your

own address. Put it in the upper left

hand corner of the envelope. Il‘ legibly

written it will bring the letter back, if,

for any reason, it cannot be delivered.





W0 of the most





The impbrtant e c o -



. nomic services in the

Pursuft Of United States are

Happiness telling the country

that the farmer is





getting prosperous. His improved con-

dition is the main subject of discus-

sion in Pullman car smokers, those

clearing houses of well-done and half-

baked thoughts.





' gotten much worse And undoubted}





farmers are buying as they have not

been able to buy in several years.



. .But they are not spending money

like drunken sailors. They are not

buying luxuries, but rather making up

for lost time in buying what they

ought to have bought normally during

the past few years.





These things indicate that agricul-

ture is coming back gradually to its

rightful place in the activities of the

country. They show that the farmer

can again resume his pursuit of happi-

ness after going through the Slough

of Despond for several years.



It is the inalienable right of each of

us to pursue happiness. But some-

times conditions are such that we

have temporarily to discontinue that

pursuit. The farmer has had his dis-

continuance and is just resuming the

pursuit. And his business is so fund-

amental that, when he resumes, it

brightens the faces of most everybody

else



It is the pursuit of happiness which

makes life attractive. We get our joy

out of pursuing it instead of attaining

it. All the signs indicate that the

farmer is beginning again. to take up

this pursuit.





STUDY of food





Price of distribution 1 11

Central- New York by the de

. _ partment of agricul-

tzatron ture reveals that it





costs more to haul a

sack of potatoes in that city than to

transport it by freight from the Mich-

igan producing section, one thousand

miles away.



A forty-seven per cent spread be-

tween the Wholesale and retail prices

was found by the investiagtors.

of this was due to heavy costs of dis-

tribution in the city, including truck—

ing charges, railroad switching costs,

loading, unloading, credit and delivery

service.





In large centers of population such

as New York, the costs are, of course,

always greater than in the smaller

places. That is the price people pay

for living in centralized points.



Not only in the marketing of agri-

cultural products is distribution a

problem. Many of our prominent bus-

iness men are beginning to 1ealize

that the big thing is not production

but distribution.





Perhaps the solution will be in de«

centralization. Large manufacturers

are already establishing plants in var-

ious parts of the country to help cut

distribution costs. In agriculture the

tendency may be toward greater di-

versification so that the surrounding

tillable lands will furnish as much as

possible the food needed for the con-

suming public.



Michigan has always been a diversi-

fied state and because. of this it has

been more fortunate than many of its

sister states. But, we believe that ex-

perience, 9‘911 in this state, is indicat-

ing that specialization and centraliza-

tion do not pay except under the most

favorable conditions.





E have come to





A appreciate bath—



. ing as a real part of

Sign Of our lives. But, appar-

Progress ently, it has not al-

ways been so. We





need to go back less than a century

for a contrast. Before the year 1844,

it was illegal for the good people of

Boston, except on prescription, to take

a dip. We can imagine a resident of

the bean eating city slinking home as

the curtains of night are falling, with

an illicit cake of soap reposing in his

pocket, hesitating on the threshhold

of his home for a final inspection of

the thoroughfare, to know that he had

not been detected by the city police

while taking a swim.





 





Most -





   





ied on every bathtub found about the





~ premises.





Such are the good old days. Not

having the obstacles which confronted





our forefathers, we suggest for the.





good of those Who sweat from the

work of the day, that they provide a

permanent or temporary bathing equip—

ment. such facilities will not only

enable our farm workers to get more

of the joy from life, but will fit them

to do with greater ease and less dis-

comfort, the heavy work of the hot

summer months.





HILE the eco-





Recreation nomic pull 'Of

the large industrial



”8 .the' centers has been the

City chief factor in keep-





ing up the migration

of the farm youth to the cities, it is

now being discovered that recreation,

where properly handled in rural places

and small towns, becomes a real force

in counteracting this swelling of urban

populations.





This fact is testified to by data gath-

ered in a. recent survey of small coun-

try towns where recreation facilities

have been provided. In some of the

places in question, the recreation facil-

ities combine many features. Often

parks have been established in which

may be found playgrounds, athletic

fields and swimming pools. In other

cases the equipment is very simple.





Financing is done in a variety of

ways. The majority of these play-

grounds are supported by private sub-

scription; a few by taxation, while

many secure aid from both private in-

dividuals and the public treasury.



The thought that prompts mention

of this matter is that country life be-

comes more attractive when a little

play is mixed with the work.





HERE are many





Don’t angles from which

Michigan farmers can



Rue]! the view the motor truck.

Truck It is apparent, how-





ever, that in the great



majority of instances the truck has

increased farm efficiency. It has short—

ened and cheapened the transporta-

tiOn of many farm products from the

field to the city. It frequently makes

possible for farmers to take advan-

tage of variations in demand for cer-

tain products at different markets. It

speeds up the delivery of perishabl’es,

so giving distributors a longer period

in which to market. It simplifies de—

livery by eliminating transfers, carry-

ing goods all the way to the receiver.

In taking a long View of our farming

business the opportunities afforded by

the truck should have the thoughtful





consideration of every operative

farmer.



HE marketing of



Cooperative eggs through co-



E operative societies is



gg. very popular in the



Marketing west and midwest



states, but Michigan



has done practically nothing along

this line.





Perhaps the local situation does not

warrant Michigan’s going into cooper-

ative marketing of eggs, her markets

being too near at hand. But we feel

that the egg marketing situation may

work out in a way similar to'our mar-

keting of fruit.



Other states, unfortunately situated

as to markets, got busy with coopera-

tive grading, packing and marketing

of fruit and captured the markets that

Michigan thought were her own. In

contrast, Michigan fruit suffered and

got a bad name. Now, we are waking

up and are making efforts to overcome

that reputation.





The west and midwest egg produc-





In Virginia a. tax: of .830 was lev- . ' . - .

ket for our packed 3‘” per usual”





stuff.



These associations in the western

states are successful. They are mak-

ing money because the public is will-





ing. to pay a premium price for qual-





ity goods





May it not be that our geographical,





location so handy to markets is, and

will be, a handicap instead of a cone





venience until we realize that cooper-'





ation in packing and marketing close

to markets pays even better than it

does at distant points? It seems that

it will pay us to take the hint from

these cooperative successes and do

likewise. ‘





 





Ot/terr





SHOULDN’T care what others do



ta. me, but I ought ta be careful

what I do ta. them.” That’s the text

fer my sermun this week. It comes

from the, Revelashuns 0’ Life.



Others is folkses what is always in-

terferin’ with my personal liberty. If

it wasn’t fer them, I could take what.

I wanted ta and do like I wanted ta.

No work, no nothin’, ’cept ta do like

I pleased.



But—what fun is there in doin’ what.

you pleased if you~-.ain’t got nobody

ta do it with you.

What fun kin we

have without oth.

ers? It’s bein'

glad and sad with

others, givin’ an’

gettin’ sympathy

a n (1 encourage

munt, and etc., is

what makes life

worth while.



The other day Jed Hudson celebrat-

ed his mother-in-law’s birthday by

swallowin’ too many moonbeams, and

then he went out and preached ta his

fellow citizuns on personal liberty.

Then he demonstrated it by drivin’ off

with Mike’s horse an’ buggy. Well,

others didn’t like ta see Jed makea

fool o’ himself an’ discommode Mike,

so they put Jed in the coop where he

kin study the Value 0’ Restraint.



Jake Smith’s heart is just full of

Mary Watson, but he can’t have'her

’cause 0’ others. Mary is’ got a hus-

band and some kids.



Sam Roscoe is a personal liberty

man. He got sore ’cause John Wrig-

ley hit his car when Sam run right in

front 0’ him. He got a rarin’ and call-

in’ John names an’ John just says,

“Sam, you don’t know what you are

doin’.” Sam says, “I don’t, eh!” and

slapped him in the face. John just

held him an’ says, “Sam, you cool off

an ’then go home an’ think things

over.” Sam says, “You darn sissy,

why don’t you come out an’ fight?”



A coupla days later Sam came an’

apologized at John fer the fool he

made 0’ himself. John just figured if

Sam made a tool 0’ himself there ain’t

no reason why he should. He also





 





figured it takes two ta make a fight.





I think the world is gettin’ better

’cause we are learnin’ how ta live

with each other better all the time.

We’re learnin’ that bein’ good ta each

other is lots more fun than fightin’,

etc., an’ that if we a1e caieful what

we do ta others, they’ll do better

by us. HY SYCKLE.





 





The longer I live the more certain

do I become that the best that govern-

ments can do for farmels is of insig~

nificant importance compared with

what, by calefully thought out and





loyal coopeiation. they can do for

themselves ~Sir Horace Plunkett. '





 





Says Sam: Folks who say that col-

lege made fools of theil boys forget

who furnished the raw material.





 





“We” can accomplish ever so much

mom that “I” can ever do.
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' licity is the good old dog.

' reams have been written on the care





many, he was right in the thought





“Ashes to ashes



Dust to dust,



If the wemem don’t get him

Then bologna must...” .





7' OW that we’re all together once





more, I’ve got a little riddle fer

you that I heard recently: Why





" is a tin can, tied to a dog’s tail, like

" the end- of the world?

' bound to occur.

‘ speaking about tails, this is one about

If you’ re interested, come and





Because it’s

Not bad, is it? And





dogs.

join our Kennel Club for a few min-

utes this evening. We’re about to

throw our annual bow-wow, and a-dog

, story ought to be snappy. .

You know, farm magazines are

chuck full‘ of information on' how to

raise practically all kinds of live stock

and I even read the other day where

some hick down in Indiana was utiliz-

ing his quarter-section for producing

goldfish. It’s not uncommon to find

suckers on farms, but that was the

first time I had ever heard of goldfish.





‘ Fish or no fish, the one piece of meat





embellishing the modern, up-to-date

eighty which never gets much pub-

Whole





and management of horses, hogs, cat-

tle, everything, in fact, from bees to

bullfrogs; but did you ever pick up a

country paper ‘and read what consti-

tuted a balanced ration for a Cocker

Spaniel? Neither did I.



Nobody seems to know much about

dogs, or else they’re afraid to tell it.





_Even our country vets don’t bat very





high around Rover. I had a skilled

Vet. give a pooch of mine the double-

0 once, when he temporarily took the

count of ten, and the Doc, diagnosing

it as distemper, pretty near floated

the poor pup with castor oil. It de-

veloped later that the dog had been

run over by a Ford can and the castor

oil should have been liniment. Now,

that D. V. S. sure knew his onions

when it come to horses or cattle, but

on the dog question he was a blank

check; and he admitted it, too.



I don’t know where dogs come from

originally, but I’d be willing to bet a

bottle of mange cure that if someone

would look up the register of the ark





I do know, though, that during the

jovial days of 900 B. C. (before Col-

lies) some dogs put the finishing

touches on a wicked old queen named

Jezebel, and that says how long they

been the friend of man.



A short time ago, the inhabitants of

some town in the frozen north—I’ve

forgotten whether it was Alaska or

Michigan—got mixed up with ‘diph—

theria. They had to have serum from

the states or the whole town would be





2 Lat]; “Dogs; 0,, 35;,

~ 5 BY Harv Hess





they’d run across a Fido and a Queen. .





timate, for instance, that the best

breed of dogs was 'these little bugle

hounds, I’d have all the Boston Bulls

and Irish Setters in the country right

at my, throat. Every dog has his

place. I’ve got a brother, by marriage,

who owns oneof these little china doll





dogs, I’ve forgotten what breed it is,





but it’s the kind you’ve got to poke to

see which end barks. Anyway, at





rounding up a bunch of Shorthorns or'





treeing a coon, that little whelp could

not earn his sausage, but where your





 





A Couple of Airdales Taking the Air.





wiped out. Well, if you read the

dailies you know it wasn’t the aero-

plane nor the submarine nor the horse

that effected the rescue. It was a

team of thirteen Siberian Huskies!

Those malemutes, as they’re called,-

wallowed through a thousand miles of

snow and ice, carrying the anti-toxin,

and they made the last fifty miles

through a blinding blizzard in less

than seven hours. Believe me, that’s

walking the dog. Gunnar Kasson, the

eskimo who owned the outfit, said he

couldn’t see the trail or any markings

whatever. He left it all to his lead

dog, “Balto,” and, he says, “Balto

didn’t fail me.” That ought to go

down in history along with “Don’t give

up the ship; boys.”



Now with the world full of all kinds

of dogs, from frankfurters to grey-

hounds, far be it for me to try and

say which is the best breed. There

ain’t no such animal. If I was to in-





dog pasture is confined to a 14x18 par-

lor, that’s one of the best breeds to

own.





A dog is as important a cog in the

machinely of the general farm as the

pork barrel. Not so very long ago the

farm dog was chosen on his merits as

a. hunter or a companion. Watch dogs

were considered unnecessary. They

were of no more use than the front

door on a country home. But since

Mr. Ford had that little invention of his

patented, we’ve got to be more care-

ful. With autos batting around all





,hours of the night, a guy is liable to





wake up some morning to discover

some yeggs have lifted everything but

the mortgage.





Now, I don’t like a burglar, espe-

cially after dark, and that’s one rea-

son why I’ll build my kennel to fit an

Airdale. To my way of thinking, if a.

farmer wants to put on a little dog,





 





 





he’ll make no mistake in hooking up

with that breed. As a. rule, an Airdale

is very intelligent, quick to learn,

obedient, faithful, loyal and, above

all, extremely zealous of his master’s

interests. (No, I haven’t any to sell).

This‘last characteristic is instinctive

just like tracking a. bunny is instinc-

tive to a beagle.





A friend wished this pup on us and

we called him Elgin—he was such a

good watch dog. Believe me, that pup

was a. whole militia when it came to

doing guard duty. He wouldn’t even

let a gnat in the yard after dark. It’s

funny, but lots of people think of Air-

dales and lions in the same breath,

and I have an acquaintance who ad-

mits tht he would just as soon meet

a alligator in a bathtub as one of that

breed of dogs. They’ll eat off your

hand. An auto bandit once made the

remark that there was no lock made

for an automobile which he couldn’t

open; but if you wanted to avoid hav-

ing your car stolen just leave it in the

care of one of those chinchilla coated

whelps. When the question of appear—

ance comes up, there’s positively noth-

ing homelier than an Airdale, unless

it’s two of them. A picture of one

hung over your safe will make any

hard-boiled yegg take the air.





But really, folks, I didn’t start out

with the idea of trying to tell you how

to raise dogs, because I don’t know;

nor what breed of dogs to keep, be-

cause I don’t care. The dope that I’ve

been trying to uncork ever since I

started is, briefly, this: Lay ofi of

the mongrels! Why is it that a good,

brainy farmer will go to no end of

expense or spare no trouble to de-

velop a herd of pure-bred cattle or to

get some old lard hog registered, yet

poor old Sport won’t have no more

pedigree than a turtle. The most high-

ly intelligent friend of man, and we

use less care in selecting him than we

do our onion seed. It ain’t right. So,

let’s take a look at that little riddle

we started out with and try and kick ‘

the “cur” out of “occur.” I hope you

won’t tie a can to my tale.





That’s all.





What anOld Greek Said





Sage Advice on Farm Management Harts Back 2400 Years





HOSE things should be called



goods that are beneficial to the



master. Neither can those lands

be called goods which by a man’s

unskilful management put him to more

expense than he receives profit by

them; nor may those lands be called

goods which do not bring a good farm-

er such a profit as may give him a

good living.”



Read the above paragraph again

and consider well the truth of it. This

might be the saying of a modern econ-

omist who has found a solution for all

of the evils attending agriculture. It

might well come from a lecturer at a

Rotary Club dinner trying to impress

upon his hearers the necessity of agri-

culture yielding a profit and a good

living to the farmer.



As a matter of fact, these werethe

thoughts of a man who lived 400 years

before the Wise Men followed the

bright star to the place where a new

born babe lay in a manger. These

were the words of the Greek General

Xenophon who was somewhat of a

farmer as well as a fighter.



One might be almost induced to be-

lieve that old man Xenophon was

thinking of certain cut-over Michigan

lands. when he said “Nor may those

lands be called goods which do not"

brings good farmer such a profit as

may give him a good living.” Cer-





 





By ].T.





that a piece of land which will not re-

turn a profit if tilled in the right man-

ner by a good farmer, is worthless and

deserves not to be called a good.



This old Greek soldier who farmed

and wrote when he wasn’t busy prod-

ding an enemy with a spear, was a

pretty good agricultural economist. He

knew that the combination of a good

farmer and poor land brought no good

results. Likewise, just as bad a com-

bination was that of good land and a

poor farmer, for he said, “Neither can

those lands be called goods which by

a man’s unskilful management put him

to more expense than he receives prof-

it by them.”





If we look around we can see, no .





doubt, some farms which-are of little

value to the man who farms them; be-

cause of his unskilful management, no

profit is left at the end of the year.

On other farms not quite so good, we

see good farmers making money.



The success of 'some farmers and

the failure of others will make us give

notice to another observation of Xeno-

phon. “The science of. husbandry,”he

said, “is extremely profitable to those

who understand it; but it brings the

greatest trouble and misery upon

those farmers who undertake it with-

out knowledge.”





 





Homer





No doubt the practice of husbandry

has brought the greatest trouble and

misery upon some of our farmers dur-

ing the past few years, and has not

been so extremely profitable as Xeno-

phon had predicted. Possibly,» profit

in agriculture in early Grecian days

was not so dependent upon markets

as it is today. It might be that the

welfare of the farmer depended en-

tirely upon how well the science of

husbandry was followed.





At any rate we must respect the

remarks of this Grecian farmer and

recognize that he knew a little about

the factors which influence success in

farming.



Not many weeks ago a man was tell-

ing me about the beginnings of agri-

cultural economics. This beginning

was, according to this man, about

thirty years ago. As a matter of fact,

farmers in America have been pretty

good agricultural economists for along

time and have not known it.‘ The de—

velopment of markets has caused the

type of farming to change and it is

this new development’which has nec-

essitated a new consideration of the

economics of agriculture.



To read such sound economics in

the writings of a man who lived al-

most 2,500 years ago would be a. blow





to the vanity of many a present-day

would-be savior of agriculture. I



While I don’t propose to give you

all the economic statements of this

Greek farmer-warrior, there is one

more I want to leave for you to think

about. This statement was, no doubt,

true in early Grecian days. Whether

it is true today, I’ll leave others to

decide. It is worthy of thought and

consideration, at least. He said, “It is

not difference in knowledge or oppor-

tunities of knowledge that make some

farmers rich and others poor; but that

which makes some poor and some rich

is that the former are negligent and

lazy—the latter industrious and

thrifty.”



It appears from this statement that

there was no royal road to prosperity

in Xenophon’s community. All the

Greek farmers probably had to give

much thought and work to cause suc-

cess to come their way. It is quite

possible thatt hese old Greeks had to

have a Big Ben remind them it was

time to shake the dirt out of their

shoes, pull on the overalls and rush

down to the cow-lot. At any rate

Xenophon knew that a farmer had to

work—that he needed good land, and

that a good farmer was entitled to a

good living.



After all, things have not changed

so much as we sometimes try to make *

ourselves believe.
.. .. LL my life has been spent in

V ' A communities but, in spite of this,



I must confess that I do not

knew much about them. At least, this





A is the way I look at the matter after





attending the Rural Life Conference

[at the Michigan State College, re-

cently.



While the community idea may have

had its origin in the Garden of Eden



. when Cain asked the searching ques-

tion, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” and

may have been an issue two genera

tions ago when Carlyle remarked that,

“Infinite is the help that man can

yield to man,” we have a conviction

creeping into our minds that the con~

ferences held at East Lansing will be

peculiarly significant when the histor-

ian of the future writes a chapter on

the rural community.



The men who led the discussions

at these Conferences were, by reason

of their education and experience,

qualified to do such directing. They

were of the type that deal with first-

hand information. Through all the ses-

sions there was not the slightest hint

that they wished to make folks into

mollycoddles in order that they might

have smoothly working communities.

How to lead modern men and women

and children to live together in a more

useful and richer manner, was the

problem that occupied the minds of

these students.



What is a Community?



As may have been expected, the

first issue suggested was, “what are

we going to talk about,” or “What is

a community?” The answers were nu-

merous. As I tried to think of them,

my head felt dizzy, and the interven-

ing days have hardly restored my

equilibrium.



They said acommunity was the area

around a village where economic in-

terests center; or, a place where folks

have things in common; or, the area

served by some church, or hall or oth-

er institution; a body of people hav-

ing common organization or interests;

a social unit; or, what not. These and

other definitions were systematically

dissected and found wanting.



So the first round ended in a sort

of haze; but my recovery was rapid

as the more concrete answers to the

next query were given. This second

question was, “W'hat does a commu-





nity do?” Or, in more academic form,

“What are the functions of a com-

munity?”





The delegates unconsciously leaned

forward a bit, took a longer breath

and began enumerating community ac—

tivities as follows: Attending school,

church and Sunday school services.

lodges, banquets, community meets,

dances, parties, club meetings, card

playing, gathering in unconventional

groups, doing business in marketing

and buying, parading the town, playing

games, pitching quoits, attending

court, marriages and funerals, helping

neighbors, borrowing, loaning, beg-

ging, giving, reading. gossiping, sing-

ing. whistling, etc.



This list merged into another having

to do with the agencies, or machinery,

through which the above activities of

the community are carried on. Here

were listed the churches, schools,

lodges, business clubs and chamber of

commerce, Sunday schools and organ—

ized classes, young people’s societies,

boys' and girls’ clubs, cooperative or-

ganizations, granges, farmers’ clubs,

gleaners, farm bureau, lecture courses,

Ag-He clubs, cow testing associations,

breed societies, extension demonstra-

tions, automobile tours, etc.’



After this mental exercise the con-

ferecs settled back in their seats, but

the leaders showed signs of just hav-

ing started with their analysis of a

community. The next step was to put

down the definite things done by these





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various agencies or institutions. From

this, it was observed, that in the av-

erage community, may over-lappings

occurred, and that other activities,

needing encouragement, often were

not being pushed by any of these

agencies.



To prevent undue duplication of

community activities, and to find

agencies to take up matters not now

receiving deserved attention, seems‘to

be the big problem for community

workers. To succeed best along this

line, a community council was advis-

ed. Such a council is usually made

up of representatives, one from each

of the several local organizations,

with the superintendent of schools,

and heads of churches acting in an

ex-ofiiCio capacity.



This council is in a position to help

the several agencies of a community

to do a maximum of serving. The

council can lay out an adequate pro-

gram of community activities. It can

suggest to organizations best fitted by

personnel and equipment the carrying

out of activities which they can most

effectively perform. It can aid in get-

ting the community behind all activi-

ties. New undertakings can be inau-

gurated. In fact, the council should

endeavor to enlist every class and in-

terest in the community for the high-

est good of the whole.



To this point, everything considered

at the conference had to do with the

planning of community work. The big

task remains. That task is carrying

the work forward. Here are required

all the vision and the good sense of





, the council and the community to

[make the activities of each succeed-

ing. year more valuable , '

TheprosecutiOn of community Work

from year to year will depend upon

two factors-ideals and leadership. If

the people 'can have the possibilities

of the community constantly before

them, and can develop leaders of the

type who will “carry on,” then, with

apologies to Carlyle, “Infinite will be

the help that the community can yield

to, every family and every individual

therein.”





The development of leadership must

be carried forward systematically

through the schools, churches, Y. M.

C. A.’s, and other institutions. There

should be no gap between the end of

the school curriculum and the begin-

ning of life’s activities. Furthermore,

some type of study program ought to be

available to every person after having

completed the routine work of the

public and high schools. Community

councils will work out such programs

for their respective domains.



In one of his evening addresses,’

President Butterfleld of the Michigan

State College, stated that our quest is

for unities. We are looking, he said,

for something to tie things to. Farms

and homes should articulate together

in the great business of farming. Sell-

ing farm products is a part of produc-

tion and cannot be isolated. The

standardization of farm products is an

idea that reaches (from the ultimate

consumer way back to the preparation

of the soil and the seed. Putting

“unity”. into community is appealing,





 





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COWS WILL DAMAGE BUCK-

WHEAT.





 





I wish to sow a field of buckwheat

which is in my cow pasture and not

fenced separately. Would buckwheat

hurt cows and would cows damage

the buckwheat much?—L. L





It will be necessary to fence the

buckwheat or the cows will destroy it.

It is not injurious to cows and they

are quite fond of it. You can put up

a temporary fence of woven wire or

a three-strand barb wire fence can be

used which, if the wires are stretched

good and tight, will turn cattle.





DEPTH OF FISH POND.





 





Will you please give some reliable

information as to how deep an arti-

ficial lake should be that fish may

thrive?~—~G. G. D.



In pond construction three points

should be considered for the welfare

of the fish: (1) the breeding area for

nesting, and for feeding range and

protection of young fish, approximate—

ly one~fourth of the area of the pound;

(2) feeding range for larger fish, about

one-half of the pond grading in depth

from three to four feet; (3) the deep-

er part of the pond grading from five

to six feet or more for wintering the

fish and where the larger ones will

gather, especially in warm weather.



The figures are approximate, of

course, and it would be difficult to find

two ponds exactly alike except at fish

hatcheries where natural conditions

are not considered. The depth at the

deepest part may vary grealty, but it

should not be less than five or six feet

and maybe more.





Many ponds are'too shallow for the

best results as they tend to warm up

too rapidly in the spring for the wel-

fare of the fish. Most fish will stand

the natural range of temperature of





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the water but sudden changes are of

ten harmful and these are most likely

to occur in shallow ponds.





On the other hand, aquatic plant life

flourishes best in water less than four

feet deep. It is best, therefore, to

have a limited area of deeper water

and experience has shown that this

should be in the region of the outlet to

the pond.





 





HAY FOR ORCHARD.





 





I have an old apple orchard which’

has many trees missing and I would

like to seed it to hay or pasture.

Which seeds do you think would be

best, and when should I plant it? I

have it plowed and dragged already.

When I spray, would it hurtt he stock

or hay? The land is very rich.——D. J.



Alfalfa is the most profitable hay

crop that can be grown in this state.

It does best on soils that are fairly

well drained and in a fair state of

fertility and that are not acid. Only

adapted, hardy seed should be used.

Grimm is especially well adapted to.

Michigan conditions while Cossack,

Ontario Variegated, Northern Grown,

and High Altitude Common usually

give good results.



Sweet clover is gaining very rapidly

as a pasture crop. 0n the other hand,

alfalfa is frequently used for pasture

purposes.



The seed should be inoculated. Ma-

terial for inoculation may be secured

from the Department of Bacteriology,

East Lansing, Michigan. The price is

twenty—five cents per bottle and each

bottle contains sufficient material to

inoculate a bushel of seed. Full direc-

tions for application accompany the \

material.



The spray of the orchard should not

in any way lessen the feeding value

of the hay—C. R. Megee, Associate

Professor of Farm Crops. .





119mm L‘s/9'1” 02’” ' ”if S’é’mflffli if :‘Qflertz’a’i?





as wen as important; 'It‘is an inc’ifi- , 4 "





sive-«an all-around idea.’ it includes

the activities of the school, the church,

the cooperative organizations, "the

clubs, and other agencies.

the building of a community is a goal

that challenges everyvperson.



Our present hit-and-mis-s course,

which, being only the product of acci-

dent, has back of it no planning, so

often provides more activities than the

people can properly attend. These un~

corrolated efforts often drain finances

and leadership, and the results too ire.

quently ' disappoint. In the average

community there is no machinery to

secure cooperation between persons

and organizations, nor between local

and outside groups and agencies.





The rural community, movement is





an effort to aid communities to find,





themselves. It seeks to get folks in.-

terested in what is going on about

them, and aims to provide methods

whereby all legitimate activities may

be promoted to the point of maximum

benefit. We sincerely believe that,

during the next decade, this will be

the most significant movement in ag<

ricultural America.





Space prevents a detailed report of

these conferences; also, giving credit

to the many who participated in the

meetings. We would, however, con.

gratulate our people upon having at

the Michigan State Collge such able

leaders as President Butterfield and

Dr. Eben Mumford, who have and are

giving this subject that earnest study

and attention which it deserves. As

a result of their leadership, the rural

people of the state may well expect

that Michigan will take its usual place

at the head of this new rural pr0<

gram.—B. W.





 





 





 





News of Week





Foreign





Mussolini, the Italian Premier, was

cheered in the Italian Senate when he

said that his country would pay all

war debts to the last cent.



Captain Roald Amundsen made a

dash to the north pole by, aeroplane

from King's Bay. Spitzenbergen.





National





General Nelson A. Miles, famous



Civil War veteran and Indian fighter,

died. at W'ashington, D. C., at the age

of e1ghty-srx years, while attending a

Circus.

. A strike of anthracite coal miners

is expected in August when the wage

agreement between them and .the op

erators expires.



Robert Reidt, the “apostle of doom,”

who sold all his belongings in antici<

patron of,the end of the world Febru‘

any 6, bought back his nine-yearbld

automobile for fifty dollars which he

sold for thirty-five. ~



Theyellow peril is a real factor in



awan. The Japanese population of

125,000 is a growing menace.



A $3,000,000 air transport company

has been formed by prominent Detroit

and Chicago men for the purposes of

carrying passengers and freight by

aeroplane.



Dayton, Tennessee, is preparing for

a large number of visitors to hear the

trial of J. E. Scopes for teaching evo-

lution in violation of the new Ten-

nessee law.





State





The Detroit Y. M. C. A. $5,000,000

campaign ended with nearly $500,000

over its mark.



J. Dallas Dort, the well-knowu aut0<

mobile manufacturer of Flint, fell

dead on the golf course of the Flint

Country Club. He was sixty-four years

age. -



The forest fires that have been rage

ing in northern Michigan are now un-

der control. For a time Petoskey, Wol~

verine and other places were in dan—





ger.



Deaths from homicide in American

cities reached the highest rate on rec-

ord during 1924. The average for sev—

entyseven cities was 9.9 per hundred

thousand population.





In fact;





 





 





 

 

   

   

   

   

 

 

 





 

 

 





 





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" ditions of the people,

f scenery and its history.





.area, comes mainly

, months and the summers over much





TALY In many respects is a re.

markabl‘e country and holds much

, of”: great interest to the tourists

with regard to its economic, life, con-

traditions, its





One of the first impressions that the

travelerreseives in entering southern

Italy is the‘density of the population.





, In some places he wonders how so





many people manage to exist. In fact,

this country has one of the heaviest

ratios of population to area in Europe.

Although its area is only about two-

thirds that of Michigan, its population

is nearly 39,000,000 people, whereas

the population of Michigan is 3,668,412.



The population of Italy is constantly

increasing. The rate of increase ex-

ceeds that of the productivity of the

country. Thus, emigration has been

heavy for many years, and when the





' laws of the United States regulating

.the number of people that were 'per—





mitted to enter this'co‘ffntry were pass-

ed, it is said that a great hardship

resulted in parts of Italy.



The climate is variable, it being in—

fluenced by altitude, longitude and by

the Mediterranean Sea. As a tourist

goes from the Alps Mountains in the

north to the Island of Sicily in the

south, he goes from regions of 10W

temperature through temperate zones

to the tropics. The rainfall, as is the

case over much of the Mediterranean

in the Winter





of the country are characterized by

low precipitation and high tempera-

ture.



Hot winds are not uncommon dur-

ing the summer months. We were in

Rome during the month of May and,

at that time, the heat was intense dur-

ing the middle of the day. Not many





 





In





people, except tourists, could be seen

on the streets from about 10:45 a. m.

until about 3:00 p. m. Duringrthese

hours most of the stores were closed,

and certainly no natives walked in

the sun. '





Somewhat over one~half of the pop-

ulation is employed in agriculture and

agricultural industries. On the whole,

natural conditions are not favorable

to farming, and arable land has in

many 'parts been reelaimed frOm

swamps by the incessant labor of cen-

turies, especially in the Po valley.



The latest statistics I have been

able to obtain show that the land was





 





 





Intensive Agriculture Near Florence.

Here Are Artichokes, Oats, Grapes,

Apples, Pears and Peaches Growing

Together.





 





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utilized as follows: 0.8 per cent under

buildings, 3.6 per cent in roads and

water courses, 3.5 per cent naturally

barren lands, 45.4 per cent arable

lands, 25.6 per cent meadows and grass

lands, 4.9 per cent vineyards, olive

yards, orchards and others, and 16.2

per cent woods. .



The three staple crops are wheat,

of which about 200,000,000 bushels are

produced, 100,000,000 bushels of corn,

20,000,000 bushels of oats, and 15,000,-

000 bushels of rice, also forage crops

and wine. Wheat, it seems, is grown

everywhere. It would seem also,'that

the area under this crop is rather ex-

cessive.



While we were in Italy the price of

the wheat crop was fixed to encour-

age production to the point of self-

sufficiency with regard to breadstuffs.

Occasionally, the Italian farmers pro-

duce as much wheat as the country

consumes.



There are a large number of oxen

and dairy cattle, especially in the

northern part of Italy. Pigs are raised

in the north and central portions and

sheep and goats are rather widely dis-

tributed, especially in the southern

districts. There are about 6,000,000

cattle in Italy, 12,000,000 sheep and

3,000,000 goats.





My first impression was that the

farms are very small and the work is

done largely by hand. But this is

true mainly near the cities and towns.

There are many very large farms in

Italy.



I was surprised to find a rather

large acreage of land in Italy under

irrigation. The latest figures that I

have, show that 275,105 acres are irri-





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Over an-fia/ftfle People 07:54: Chantry are Employed m Til/mg lac Laaa’

W9 ' By M. M. McCOol





gated The irrigation projects are laid

out in sixteen regions.



Italy has to import coal in large

quantities for her railways and public

services, as well as for some of her

factories. It is fortunate for this coun-

try, however, that her mountains are

rich in water force and torrents ad-

mirably suited to generate electricity

for power stations. There are already

a very large number of electric plants

in all parts of Italy which give power—

ful assistance in the development of

her industries. Electricity will, in

time, take the place of coal in the

manufacturing industries. When de-

veloped the electrical power will equal

that of about. 60,000,000 tons of coal

annually. Nearly one-half of the rail-

ways are electrified and plans are on

foot for greatly extending the mileage

of these railways.



The utilization of electric power for

driving agricultural machinery has

been known in Italy for more than

thirty years and more especially in

the last ten years. Competition and

exhibitions have been held to encour-

age the application of electricity to

agriculture. The most important pres«

ent uses are in connection with drain-

age and irrigation work, the most nu-

merous are for plowing, rice husking,

forage chopping, oil and wine making,

starch manufacture, milling timber,

sawing, etc.





The manufacture of automobiles is

a leading engineering trade. Both

high—class cars and motor lories are

made. More than one~fourth of the in-

dustrial population is engaged in tex-

tile manufacture. Silk spinning and

weaving are especially important in

northern Italy, as are the manufac—

ture of leather goods, plaited straw

and felt hats.





HayingCOSts Cut Forty Per Cent





[Veto Metaoa’ of Caring Alfalfa Hay a Samar;

By C. R. Megcc





fluoa'att I’rofeuor, Farm Cropx, M. S. C.





,IT hardly seems possible that al-





falfa hay rained upon six times in



the process of curing could be so

handled that it would grade U. S. No.

2, yet Mr. Ralph Hudson, of East Lan-

sing, cut and cured-r the hay and Mr.

E. G. Parker, of the United States De-

partment of Agriculture, graded the

hay. Upon examining this lot of hay,





.Mr. Parker was surprised to find a.





hay of such high quality when the ad-





.verse haying weather of last spring





was considered.





Michigan is rapidly changing from

a timothy to an alfalfa state. The

change brings about new problems

that must be met by producer and

shipper. Alfalfa, to bring an attrac—

tive price, must be cut at the right

stage, cured so as to retain its leaf,





‘ baled at the end of the sweat stage,





and a uniform lot placed in each car.

Weather conditions may‘prevent cut-

ting at the right stage as well as up-

set carefully laid plans for proper cur-

ing; however, "careful observation

shows that many farmers are cutting

too late and improperly curing their

hay regardless of weather conditions.





Mr. Hudson harvests about 200 acres

of alfalfa hay each year. In order

that a high quality hay may be pro-

duced it was necessary for him to get

away from the old system of handling

by hand and curing in the cock.





The perfecting of a new system of

curing and handling alfalfa hay by

using the left hand, curved tooth, side

delivery hay rake and the hay loader

has eliminated, according to Mr. Hud-

son, much of the worry experienced

in hay harvesting when the old sys-





tem of cocking was used. For com-

parison, Mr. Hudson cocked a small

acreage of hay last season and found

that by curing the hay in the windrow

by this new method he was able to

reduce the expense of hay making

about forty per cent, and was also able

to secure a better quality of hay at

less risk. ‘



Each year in Michigan there is an

increasingly large number of farmers

who are growing fifty, 100, and in

some cases 200 or more acres of al-

falfa on a single farm. The problem

of securing a high quality hay with a

minimum of labor and with a low op-

eration cost is a. serious one.



In securing a hay that will retain





its leaf and will also retain its pala-

tability and aroma it is necessary that

the stems and leaves cure out at the

same time. The moisture is given off

through the leaves and when the hay

remains in the swath as it falls from

the cutter bar the leaves are exposed

and a majority of the stems are cov-

ered. If the hay is left in this condi-

tion very long the leaves will soon

Wither and die, the stems will remain

green, and when handled the leaves

will shatter badly and a coarse, stem-

my hay of low quality result. If a

properly constructed side delivery

rake is used and the hay raked soon

after cutting, it will be possible to

place the hay in a loose windrow with





 





 





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This Device Takes Grain From Thresher to the Bin Without the Use of an





Ounce of Human Energy.





One Thresher Last Fall Used it on Forty Jobs.





the leaves toward the center and the

majority of stems expOsed to the air.

To facilitate curing, and in case of

rain, the windrows may be turned

with the side delivery rake.





Hay cured in this way may be load~

ed with the hay loader with practi-

cally no loss of leaf. Also, in hand-

ling hay in the barn during the winter

the leaf is retained much better. This

was brought to our attention when

Mr. Hudson purchased some alfalfa

hay from a neighbor who had cured

the hay by the old system. Each time

this hay was handled a pile of leaves

was left where the hay had been. In

contrast, hay cured by the new sys—

tem retained its leaves so that the loss

in handling was very small.





First crop alfalfa should be cut a.

little early since it is likely to be

somewhat coarse and make a harsh

hay with a low leaf content, if cutting

is delayed too late. The second and

third cuttings are naturally finer and

may be cut from about one-tenth to

one—half full bloom, or when the shoots

are from one—half 0t one inch long.





Mr. Hubbard, of Chatterton & Son,

states that the farmers of Michigan





'lost many thousands of dollars last





season by placing on the market hay

that was harsh and stemmy, which

poor quality was partly caused by cut-

ting too late. Frequently farmers ob-

ject to cutting alfalfa before full

bloom, stating that it is too difficult

to cure when cut earlier. This has

not been found to be the case when

the hay is cured by the new system

of curing, which Mr. Hudson has found

to be very satisfactory.





 

 

 





 





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DEVELOPING SEED PRODUCTION

IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN.





 





HAT northern Michigan is fast be-

coming nationally famous for the

”development of pure seed and for the

" production of new and improved varie-

_ ties of field grains, is brought out in

., a recent report of the Michigan Crop

Improvement Association.

Rosen rye, first developed on a com-

mercial basis on the isolated South

Manitou Island, has come to complete-





ly displace the old common and black.





rye in most of the north central states,

and in five out of six years, rye of this

\variety grown in northern Michigan,

'has won first honors at the Interna-

tional Grain and Hay Show, held at

Chicago.



The Robust bean, although it is not

generally known, was another devel-

ment of northern Michigan. The late

Professor Sprague, of the Michigan

State College, who also was respon-

sible for Rosen rye, made his final se—

lection of Robust beans from seed

bred in Cheboygan county and releas-

ed in 1922 This year's foundation

stock of registered Robust beans, the

lot designated as foundation seed for

new growers, was produced near Bel—

laire in Antrim county.



The growing of alfalfa and sweet

clover in upper Michigan, not wide—

spread until the grasshopper menace

made red clover and timothy unprofit-

able in some sections, .has been fos-

tered in northern Michigan by various

drives by extension men, and at the

present time a. large proportion of

Michigan-grown alfalfa and sweet clo~

ver seed is raised for sale by northern

farmers.



The first big transaction of this kind

was the sale of nearly $3,000 worth of

sweet clover seed by the Buell farms

near Elmira several years ago. Dur-

ing the present year the Black River

Farms of Cheboygan sold over eighty

bushels of Grimm alfalfa seed;

Schmalzreid Brothers, of Levering,

twenty-six bushels of Grimm; Rogers

Brothers, of Alpena, several hundred

pounds of Hardigan. The first Hardi-

gan alfalfa produced under college

supervision was on the Olaf Nelson

farm near Aloha, while the largest in—

spected area today probably is that of

Rogers Brothers, at Alpena.



A valuable strain of Golden Glow

corn has been produced during the

past year by college men working with

\V. E. Rogers at Bear Lake. Mrs. Kate

L. Reinsch, of Freesoil, last year pro-

duced sufficient of this seed to plant

1.500 acres under college inspection.



Nearly 300 carloads of certified seed

potatoes were marketed last year by

northern Michigan growers—Cook.





,SEED SALES GROW.





ORE than $100,000 worth of field



seeds, small grains, beans and

corn, exclusive of alfalfa and clover

seed, has been sold as seed by mem-

bers of the Michigan Crop Improve-

ment Association, through the Michi-

gan Farm Bureau seed agency, accord—

‘ing to Howard Rather, secretary of

the association. A start has been

made on the inspection of Grimm and

Hardigan alfalfa and two~thirds of the

million pounds of Michigan-grown clo-





ver seed has been certified as to or-

igin during the year, according to Mr.





' Rather.





Michigan clover seed, says Mr. Rath-

er, is rapidly becoming popular in all

corn belt and northern states by vir—

tue of its hardiness and disease-resist—

ing qualities. All clover and alfalfa

’ seed certified and sold by the Michi-

gan Crop Improvement Association, is

, sent out in sealed bags to distinguish

T it from foreign seeds. Argentine al-





falfa seedings in . the college experi-

mental plots were completely winter-

killedthis year, while Michigan seed-

ings, in the same plots, according to

Mr. Rather, came through in excellent

condition—Cook.





PROVISION IN TARIFF LAW TO BE

TESTED.





 





HE supreme court may soon have



an opportunity to pass on the con-

stitutionality of the flexible provisions

of the tariff law. The case in questiOn

comes before the court in a writ of

error filed by counsel for the Norweg-

ian. Nitrogen Products Company.



BILL TO REDUCE FEDERAL



TAXES.





REDUCTION in annual taxes col-



lected by the federal government

to the extent of $750,000,000 is propos-

ed in a bill ot be introduced in con-

gress next fall by Senator. King, of

Utah, a [member of the Senate Finance

Committee. This bill would cut the

income tax rates, including surtaxes,

and would eliminate the so-called mis—

cellaneous taxes. It would reduce the

corporation tax, but would strengthen

the administrative features of the cor-

poration tax.





 





NEW BOND ISSUE FOR FEDERAL

LAND BANK.





NEW issue of $26.500,000 ten to



thirty-year Federal Land Bank

four and one-half per cent bonds is

being offered. In seven years of ac-

tive operations the twelve banks in

the Federal Farm Loan system have

increased their capital to $50,905,000,

reserve, $6,688,900; undivided profits,

$3,706,251, and total assets, $1,031,710,-

233, with every bank showing a sur-

plus earned from operations.





COMMODITY PRICES DECLINE.





 





HE Bureau of Labor Statistics re-

ported a three per cent reduction

from April to May in wholesale com~

modity prices. The bureau’s survey,

which covers 404 commodities, showed





‘u'chie‘fly among. farm products

' .foods‘, which, indicates thaLlittle pro-





 





and





gress is being made in getting the





farmer's purchasing power up to the‘





general price level.





 





FARMERS TO PICNIC ON JULY 4.





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THE farmerS’ Fourth of July county



picnic movement being promoted

by the American Farm Bureau Feder-

ation is meeting with a favorable re-

sponse, according to President Brad-

fute.‘ Farmers in several

counties in twenty-five or more states

have announced their intention to hold

a picnic on July 4. President 0001—

idge has written a letter to President

Bradfute highly commending the prop-

osition. All local organizations, in-

cluding farm and village people, will

be invited.



-“It will mean,” says President Brad-

fute, “that farmers will again assume

leadership in this country as they did

back in 1776.” '





 





PROVIDE FOR MAINTAINING

‘ PRICES.





 





BILL with strong backing will



come up in congress next winter

Which would permit the manufacturers

of a product to name and maintain a

price on what they produce by paying

a registration fee of $10 to the Fed-

eral Trade Commission. The farm or-

ganizations are studyingythis proposi-

tion with a view to taking action on it.





PROPAGANDA ON CHILD AMEND-

MENT GOES OUT.





 





N its efforts to develop sentiment in



favor of the child labor amendment,

the Federal Bureau of Education is

sending out propaganda in which it

declared that the boys on the farms

are getting less education than any

other group of children, because of

profitable farm employment which

has a detrimental effect on school at-

tendance in many rural communities.



Farm girls receive a better educa-

tion than farm boys, according to the

bureau, because the farm boy is eco-

nomically useful at home. His labor

is worth something, and the farmer

has found little relationship between

high school training and occupational

success.





 





NEWS





 





STATE WILL OPERATE MENOM-

INEE SCHOOL.





HE Michigan State College will

take over and operate the Menom-

inee County Agricultural School, the

legislature having provided an approp-

riation of $75,000 to cover mainte-

nance costs during the ensuing two

years. The Menominee county board

of supervisors have also approved the

plan and entered into an agreement

with the State Board of Agriculture.

The college will take hold July 1, the

county relinquishing all control over

the institution. The next two years is

a trial period for the institution under

the new administration of its affairs.

If the trial proves satisfactory a deed

will then be executed in favor of the

college. I

The Menominee County Agricultural

School was provided for in an act of

the 1907 session of the state legisla-

ture, the school having been establish-

ed in the same year. The school oc-

cupies a 107-acre farm tract on. the

outskirts of the city of Menominee,

and is housed in one main school build—

ing, dormitory, two dwellings, barns,

etc., and is equipped with live stock,

scientific apparatus, supplies and ma-





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chinery, the whole being valued at

above $200,000. It can house and in—

struct 100 students.





The county has provided the build-

ings so far and the county and the

state have jointly maintained the

school. The state has taken care of

about fifteen per cent of the operating

cost. The school was founded to pro—

vide eighth—grade graduates with prac-

tical agricultural and mechanical

training.





 





OUTLINES WORK.





 





HE program of work for the twen-



ty-seventh year of the Upper Pe-

ninsula Experiment Station of the

Michigan, State College at Chatham,

Alger county, includes the planting of

9,000 trees on the lands of the station,

including white and Norway pine,

hemlock, spruce and cedar.



The poultry demonstration work is

to be developed under the direction of

Mr. Howard McPherson. The station

now owns 250 laying hens and 700

chicks. The station will hatch 600

chicks from eggs produced by the'

trap-nested Whit‘e Leghorns of the

statidn. This will demonstrate What





 





to purchase, this season, ,

A new horse“-





hundred _





pure-bred Guernseys. .

barn will be’erected to take the. place

of the one burned last autumn: x



Superintendent Putnam states ti:‘at





. 350 acres of the 800 now owned by the V





experiment Station, are under cultiva-

tion. There is a fortyhacre woodlot





and the residue is cut-over pasture. A ‘

fifty-acre tract of land is now being ~





broken, Which





‘was cleared several

years back. ' - '





CON DUCT ALFALFA TESTS.





 





ALFALFA variety tests will be con-

ducted on a farm near Chassell.

The demonstration will indicate the

vaIUe of wood ashes in properly start-

ing alfalfa and will indicate the rela-

tive hardiness of four varieties tested.

If Started right alfalfa will produce

two cuttings each year and the fields

will remain in good condition for five,

ten or even twenty years.





WILL TRIM ALFALFA LANDS.’





 





ECENTLY a carload of fifty tons.





of agricultural limestone was re-

ceived in Gogebic county and distrib-

uted among the farmers there. This





limestone will all be used on alfalfa ,





land in that county.





MANY BARNS BUILT.





 





OUNTY Agent W. N. Clark, of



Ontonagon county, reports an un-

usually large number of new, well con-

structed barns erected in that county

during the past two years. He warns

his farmers against having too many

hay barns where dairy barns are need~

ed. These need to be well lighted and

ventilated.





ENTHUSIASTIC OVER CLUB

WORK.





 





EVERAL club members recently ap-



peared before the Kiwanis Club of

Sault Ste. Marie and told them what

agricultural club work is doing for

that section of the state. There are

140 boys and girls in the clubs of Chip~

pewa county, reported D. L. McMil~

lan, county agricultural agent. The

boys and girls spoke fluently and en-

thusiastically of their work and its

value to themselves.





PLANT TREES AT VULCAN.





 





HREE thousand Norway and white



pines and spruce were recently

planted on a three-acre plot near Vul-

can, Dickinson county. The land was

furnished by a mining company which

had itself been conducting a reforesta-

tion program during the twelve years

past. This company has already

planted 60,000 trees. Students of the

Vulcan High School did the present

planting, which is a part of the pro

ject for re-forestation demonstration

plots recently undertaken by the Mich-

igan State College, the Upper Penin<

sula Development Bureau and the Unit-

ed States Forest Service.





POULTRY TRAIN POPU LAR.





 





LL accounts agree that the poultry



special train which has been mak-

ing the rounds of the peninsula was

enthusiastically received. The train

was in charge of Mr. J. A. Jeffery,

land commissioner of the Duluth, South

Shore & Atlantic Railroad. It is esti-

mated that 2,300 persons visited the

train during the first week out, when

seventeen stops were made. Grant

Gallup, poultry club champion, made

a strong impression on his auditors by

reporting that last year he made $178

profit from seventy-two hens This

demonstrated conclusively the value

of club work.





 





 

 





 

   

   

   

   





 

 

 

 

 





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.g-Board of Supervisors appropriated

$5, 000 to start the eradication of

bovine tuberculosis





county as county veterinarian. Dr.





-~. Heath carried about the whole load

“ the first year, having some help from





. HBtate

’ nsp’ring or 1923 saw a force of inspect-





and federal inspectors. The





ore at work in Kent ecunty and the

first complete county test was finish-





ed. The results tabulated showed that

‘ 4,977 herds with 38, 971 cattle were-

- tested.





011' 638 farms were found 1,064

reactors, or a percentage of 2 07 per

cent infection.



In April, 1924, a second complete test

was made. This time the figures show-

ed that 5,030 herds and 41,125 cattle

had been tested, with 333 farms hav-





1, ing 440 reactors, or a. percentage in-





fection of 1.07. The second test show-

ed fifty-three more herds and 2,154

more cattle, but infection was found

on 305 less farms and 624 less react-

ors. This was encouraging. On a

study of the individual townships it

was found that twelve out of the twen-

ty-four had a very low infection, one

or two as low as one-quarter of one

.per, cent. Studying the previous tests

it was deemed advisable not to test

these townships this year. So this

spring only half of Kent’s area was

tested. Eleven of these townships

have been covered. The results of this

test is interesting. In these eleven

townships last year there were 205

farms having infection, with 270 re-

actors. This year these same town-

ships show only eighty farms having

infection and only ninety-eight react-

ing cattle. This is 125 farms less and

172 less cattle. Who says you can

eradicate bovine tuberculosis. The

final percentage for the county cannot

be figured until Walker township is

tested, but this area has not been a

bad ofiender in the past. There is lit-

tle doubt‘but what Kent county will





go under the modified accrediated area'





in the near future.





Already the county is profiting by

the work. Auctioneers tell that’ at

sales near the county line the T. B.

tested cattle bring from ten to twenty

dollars more than similar cattle across

the line. Out of state dealers are com-

ing to Kent county for dairy cattle.

Over twenty carloads of Holsteins and

Jerseys were sold last year and indi-

cations -are good for increasing that

amount this year. The T. B. test is

one thing that is bringing them. Then

Kent farmers know that they have a

clean bunch of cattle, for the infected

herds will be kept at until cleaned up.

The milk source is clean. Then, too,

a check—up with the live stock ship—

ping associations shows that the pre-

mum —on hogs from the county wll

amount to a neat sum.



Kent county is satisfied with its T.

B. test. There have been minor dif-

ferences but these have been ironed

out in View/of the big goal ahead. New

Kent hopes that its neighboring coun—

ties will follow suit. Ottawa and Mus-

kegon are well on their way. Allegan

and Barry are waiting. They cannot

start any too soon to suit the folks in

Kent.





FERTILIZERS PAID ON POTATOES.





 





HE falling off in yields of potatoes ‘





and an-interest in knowing what

fertilizers would do in their soil con-

ditions led several men in Carp Lake

and Bliss townships, Emmet county, a

few' years ago to conduct some experi—

ments with the use of commercial

plant food on acre and a half plots.

Commercial fertilizers had not been

used very much up there, so the real

socalled potato fertilizers were not





available, and having acid phosphate

" and 2-12-2 for corn and grain, these





 





N the fall of 1921 the Kent County 1'





January. of 1922,

saw Dr. S. P. Heath start work in the





farmers tried 2 them on potatoes. In

every case where the fertilizer was





‘used either manure had been applied





Or' a good sod turned down, or both

were combined. All the fertilizer was

bloadcasted, there being no planters

in that region at that time having fer-

tilizer attachments.



On the farm of George Schmalzreid

a half acre was treated to 250 pounds

of a 2-12-2 fertilizer, the ground hav-

ing been sod the year before. The

fertilized area produced at the rate of

208 bushels per acre and the unfer—

tilized 156 bushels, or an increase of

fifty-two bushels per acre.





On the Elias Leusing farm one acre

was treated to 500 pounds of acid

phosphate and had an application of

eighteen wagon loads of manure. The

soil conditions were nothing extra and

the yield might not have been so good

but the fertilized plot gaVe a yield of

177 bushels per acre and the unfer-

tilized 119 bushels, or an increase of

fifty-eight bushels.



On the Fred Schmalzreid farm both





”acid phosphate and 2-12—2 were used.





Manure was applied and a clover sod

plowed down the spring of 1919. Both

fertilizers were applied at the rate of

500 pounds per acre. The acid phos-

phate gave a yield of 330 bushels per

acre and the complete fertilizer a yield

of 368 bushels. The check was 300

bushels, or an increase of forty bush-

els for the phosphate and sixty-eight

bushels for the complete fertilizer.



Lawrence Overholt went a little

further. He had a timothy sod. Ma-

nure at the rate of twelve loads per

acre was applied. On one-half acre

he applied 250 pounds of acid phos-

phate. Another half-acre had just the

manure. On a third there was a check

of just' sod.



The plot having the acid phosphate

and manure yielded 216 bushels per

acre. The sod and manure yielded

157 bushels per acre and the sod alone

103 bushels. An increase of 113 bush-

els for the manure and phosphate and

an increase of fifty-four bushels for

the manure alone.



It might be said in passing that the

next spring saw a marked improve-

ment of the oats where the acid phos-

phate was used.



The average yield of three plots





 





me .there was but one color.





sickly ochre.





I looked about.

How changed the scene.





work again.





picture ever hung on wall.





 





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.BRIOH-T shone the sun and I put On my colored glasses when I‘

went out to the field. All about me there was the glory of

opening flowers, the changing of sombre hued trees to living green.

Velvet the carpet beneath my feet, silver the sheen of the little

stream that rippled through the “back -.”pasture

plumage were awing, the air vibrant with their melody.

The upturned loam of the field was

not black, it was yellow; the emerald green of grass and tree a

Depressed, I put little heart into the work of the '

day and the plod, plod of my steady team awoke only resentment.

Farm life for me was dull, drab and monotonous.

furrow’s end, I paused to rest a moment, removing my glasses while





The beauty of flower, the song of bird

had'new meaning. Black and fertile lay the loam, rich in promise.

Even now I could vision the joys of autumn when work well! done

called for its reward. Old Bess nosed my arm in friendly comrade-

ship. Abiding peace and contentment was about me and putting

my colored glasses away I turned the willing team to take up the





How tragic that for many of us who till the soil the eyes of the

spirit ever are blinded. Obsessed with toil or

through life, never noting the gallery of God’s art, surpassing any

All about us is beauty incomparable,

yet because we a1e blind we never see.

field today, friend, remove your colored glasses and pause for a

moment to look about you as I did with eyes that see.

you witness a miracle, even as one who lived in the long ago.





 

 





 





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having acid phosphate was 244 bushels

per acre. The average yield of the

two plots having the complete fertil-

izer was 288 bushels. The average

yield of the checks was 180 bushels.

An increase of sixty—four bushels in

favor of the phosphate and 108 bush-

els for the complete fertilizer.



The acid phosphate cost $7.50 per

acre and the complete fertilizer $12.50.

—K. K. Vining.





FIGHT CORN BORER.





 





AN eight weeks campaign against

the European corn borer is being

conducted in the infested areas of the

state comprising the territory along

the eastern boundary from the Ohio

border to the Thumb, under the direc-

tion of Jack Harmon, state extension

entomologist.



Five weeks of the campaign tour

have been completed during which Mr.

Harmon was assisted locally by coun-

ty agricultural agents, granges, and

other farm organizations. Films will

be used during the remainder of the

tour to illustrate the ravages of the





 





 





 





 

 





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corn borer and educate farmers and

gardeners as to the best methods of

preventing the spread of the pest.—

Cook.





EXHIBIT SEEDS TOGETHER.





 





OINT exhibits may henceforth be



staged at State Fair’s International

Hay and Grain Show and at annual

Farmers’ Week at the Michigan State

College, by the Michigan Crop Im-

provement Association and the Michi-

gan Certified Seed Growers’ Associa-

tion, according to an agreement reach-

ed at a meeting between representa-

tives of the two organizations at the

regular session of the board of direct-

ors of the Michigan Crop Improve-

ment Association.



The change is being made in order

that the two groups may work in clos-

er harmony to draw attention to Mich-

igan seeds.—~Cook.





DECISION IN TAX CONTRAVERSY..





 





IN the recent suit in Berrien county,



in which the board of supervisors

levied a. total of 7.12. mills per thou-

sand dollars valuation for road pur-

poses, Judge Warner handed down this

decision.



He decides and states in unequiv-

ocal terms that the limit which may

be levied for road taxes is five mills.

He says that taxes levied to retire or

pay interest on Covert road bonds is

a tax and not an assessment, and as

such comes within the five mill limit.

Another point brought out by the at-

torney for the plaintiff who paid his

taxes under protest is, the legislature

enacted a law limiting the road tax in

counties under a certain valuation to

three mills and not five as the consti~

tution has it. This point was not cov-

ered in Judge Warner’s decision.



The controversy will be carried to

the State Supreme Court by either the

board of supervisors or the plaintiff.

These points are of vital interest to

every taxpayer and every board of

supervisors in Michigan. The board

of Berrien county must refund to tax-

payers the 2.12 mills excess tax col-

lected. This refund must come out of'

the five mill limit tax raised next year

which cuts the actual tax money rais-

ed for road purposes to 2.88 mills,

which will barely take care of interest

charges and maintenance, leaving

nothing for new road building. As a 2

result many contemplated new roads '





must wait another year. Berrien coun—





ty has over $200,000 delinquent tax on

its rolls and this is increasing annu-‘err

ally at an alarming rate.——L.- Benj.

Reber. ..
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Each year thou- "

sands of dairymen ' ‘J' .

are learning that the “fly n .

nuisance” can be con- ‘

trolled, and that the/way to ,

avoid the losses caused by fly annoyance of

dairy cows is to begin early. Flies do notslive

over winter. The early flies lay the eggs

which result in the millions of flies later in the

summer. Kill the early flies with “F ly-Kil.”





YOU MUST DO YOUR PART!





By the early and correct use of “F ly-Kil" protect the

cows, from the start, against fly annoyance. Don't wait

until the milk flow begins to fall 00’ because of the cow's

discomfort. “





“FLY-Kn.” PROTECTS COWS ALL DAY AGAINST FLY

ANNOYANCE





“Fly-Kil," a safe and pleasant REPELLENT and KILLER, is

clear colored, sweet smelling, and will not taint dairy products when

correctly used. It is the original fly repellent_ and killer used for

four years by nearly every agricultural school in the north central

3 tea and endorsed by the largest milk' producers,

cgeese makers and pure bred stock raisers.



“F ly-Kil" is now sold from coast to coast and was used last year on

than 26,000 herds. . _ .

devoting their entire time to provmg its worth to dairymen.





 

 





 





monstrate its proper use.





OPPORTUNITY FOR DISTRIBUTORS

In certain territories we have openings for_responsible con-





servative men. Write at once'to learn If your home





territory is still open.

other references.





“F LY-KIL” DIVISION





Willhelm Oil Company

St. Paul, Minn.





The only makers and distri-

butors of “Fly-Kil.”





INSIST UPON THE .

GENUINE\/





Give name of your banker or





creameries,





It has proved so popular that now nearly 300 men are

t is

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smokers. etc. Everything for the

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Top market price paid for beeswax.



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Berry Baskets and

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baskets and lii—qt. crates.

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a HE" cabbage maggot annually ex-

, acts a'severe tell from farmers. and

plans for combating the pest occupy

the attention of growers at this season

of. the year. Screening the Seed-bed

with cheesecloth to protect the young

cabbage plants from the adult files

which lay. [their eggs about the base of

the plants is the commenest and per-

haps the most dependable means of

checking the maggot. Some growers,

however, prefer to raise their cabbage

plants in open beds, and, in order to

protect plants .grown in this way the

entomologists at the State Agricultural

Experiment Station at Geneva, New

York, have tried out other control

methods. '

Placing tobacco dust about the base

of the young cabbage plants proved

effective, but this treatment required

large amounts of dust and seems im<

practical because of the excessive

cost, except possibly in small seed-

beds.

A cheap and effective remedy was

found in the use of a corrosive subli-

mate solution applied in a solid stream

immediately about the base ‘of the

plants. This solution contains one

ounce of powdered corrosive sublimate

in ten gallons of water, and one gallon

of the solution will take care of thirty

feet of row. The solution can be ap-

plied with an Ordinary sprinkling can

with the perforated cap removed.

Since this corrosive sublimate solu-

tion is only effective against the eggs

and young maggots. it is most import-

ant that the first application be made

at the proper time. This, the station

workers say, is about the time Euro-

pean plums come into full bloom. In

order to avoid possible burning, the

young plants should be well through

the ground, but not more than a week

old. One or two additional applica-

tions should be made at weekly inter-

vale, if the insects are numerous.

Screening is said to cost about twen-

ty—five cents per 1,000 plants, the to-





 





 





 





 





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bacon dust treatment atleast 51.9100151-

1,000, 'and the . corrosive ‘subliinate





treatment about eighteen ' cents per ‘





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GRAPE leafhoppers, tiny, greenish



insects always present in greater

or less numbers in vineyards, coca.

sienally do considerable damage to‘ the

foliage and reduce the quality of the

fruit.



Most of the damage is done by over-

wintering adult insects which, in the

early spring, feed-I largely on straw—

berry and raspberry leaves, although

vthey'are also found on blackberry,

cur‘rant, gooseberry, catnip, Virginia

creeper, burdock, beech, and sugar ma-

ple. Neglected fence rows brush,

weeds, tall grass, etc.,‘ furnish ideal

winter protection for the pests, and

vineyards in the neighborhood of such

places usually suffer most from leaf~

hopper injury. The adults lay their

eggs on the grape vines and the young

hoppers .hatch out in large numbers,

usually about the middle of June.





Cleaning up the hibernating places

is one effective step toWard combating

leafhoppers, while very good results

have been secured from spraying for

the young hoppers with nicotine Sul-

phate in water or in Bordeaux mix-

ture. The nicotine is added at the

rate of one pint to 200 gallons (1 to

1,600) of the spray mixture and must

be applied from below the vine as the

insects congregate on the young shoots

at the base of. the'vines. Only the

young insects are reached by the spray

because the adult hoppers are too ae~

tive.



Chemical analyses of grapes from

sprayed and 'unsprayed vines showed

a gain of from eight to sixty-eight per

cent in the sugar content of the grapes

from the sprayed vines over those

from unsprayed Vines. Samples of

unsprayed grapes were analyzed which

had as much as 20.6 per cent more

acid than the sprayed grapes.





 





 





 





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i this .weekislesson’. ' ‘09s was the

- healing I of a. man sick- Ieight‘





years“ the other; a raising from; the

,dead. .Why do. we”, have no miracles





new? With all the Wonders of. science

and the cures. effected by surgery, no

-one is raised from the dead. If there

were, we would not be long in hearing

about it. “Pepularity would be a mild

word for a man who could effect such

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known place. -



The Master of the soul apparently

goes on the assumption that miracles

are not needed. The power" to work

them passed away in the early days

of the church. Christ found that mir-

acles, or wonderful healings, were an

embarrassment to Him. That was one

- ~ reason why he en-



joined people who

had. been healed

to keep still about

it. Of course, they

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'- because it was

too good to keep,

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Master was storm-

ed by folk with

every imaginable disease, demanding

that they, too, should be healed. But

the belief which was needed was deep-

er and more permanent than that

which, is brought about by healings.

People would believe because they had

been‘ cured of aches and pains, or

rheumatism, asthma and malaria. But

they had no genuine love of God. They

might not be touched in their spiritual

natures. Hence He attended to heal—

ing quietly as people were brought to

Him.





I DO not mean by this that modern

folk should not pray for the recov-

ery of others. They should. And re-

covery by prayer is by no means un-

known among us. If it is not Wrought

by prayer, no other cause can be as-

signed, sometimes. But beyond this,

is the undying devotion of soul for

God that Christ so patiently and ex-

haustively taught, and which He so

longed to see developing in His fol-

lowers.



The fact is, that cures of illness by

religion are more common than is sup-

posed. Every church should be a place

of healing souls. And if souls are heal-

ed, bodies are certain to be helped,

too, and sometimes cured. \Vhat is

the matter with us today, that so many

die of heart failure and other organic

diseases? Is it not that, as a people,

we live too strenuously?





“Nerves” incapacitate thousands. If

they hadn’t gotten into the habit of

worrying about everything, they would

not have got “nerves.” If they had

nourished a healthy attitude of trust

in God, a practical, working trust, they

would not have worried so much. Re—

ligion has a direct working bearing on

the lives of those who practice it. We

may not have the spectacular cures

such as Aneas had, or raisings from

the dead, like that of Dorcas, but we

have genuine examples of the effect

of religious faith on the body, just the

same.





HE life of Dorcas is an encourage:



ment to devoted and earnest peo-

ple everywhere. She could not make

addresses at missionary societies, I

do not imagine, or at woman’s clubs,

nor did she take part in political cam—

paigns for woman suffrage. She was

an old-fashioned body, who was dili-

gent in the use of" her needle. She

must have had an attractive and quiet

spirit, too, because it is evident that

she was much loved. The picture of

those women standing around and

showing her garments has endured for

a long time and will last a good while

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.. film-Cunt;

deeds.” Now, "that is something that

'ev‘erydne'may be proficient'in.” To do

the kindness that needs doing may be

the greatest service you can perform

for anyone. To be on the lookout for

such deeds is a sure developer of the

soul’s powers. Anyone can. do it. But

for some reason, everyone does not

do it. ' .. .



The life of this woman would not

be considered as Worthy of a place in

a history. The writer would be too

busy describing battles, political cam-

paigns and international trade. A

scientist would not give her a passing

thought, becausershe was not scientific

in her thinking. Society leaders would

have none of her. She could not shine

in society. And yet she attained an

earthly immortality given to few. Her

name is part and parcel of the Bible

itself. It is one of the surprises that

meet us in life. She tooka very ordi-

nary path, but she bordered it with

flowers of the brightest hue, and she

became immortal.



Elizabeth Fry did the same thing.

Her name is sure to outlast that of

great ones of her day. One day she

entered Newgate jail, London. She had

heard of the foul conditions, the idle—

ness, the depravity of the inmates.

The governor of the jail had one day,

ventured into one of the cages with-

out his customary body guard. In less

time than it takes to tell it, his clothes

had been torn off him, until there

were not enough left on him to

comply with the law. But Elizabeth

Fry began working with those women,

many of whom were professional crim-

inals. She wrought a transformation,

did the little Quakeress. Prisons are

not exactly heavenly places yet, but

they have been difierent since Eliza-

beth Fry’s day.





 





 





NOTE the description of the raising

of Dorcas to life. Luke, you will

recollect, was a Greek physician. He

always records carefully details of

healings which other writers would be

more likely to leave out. He says that

she opened her eyes, first. Next, she

saw Peter. And then she sat up, upon

which Peter gave her his hand, and

she stood up. The only other place

in the New Testament Where such an

expression is used, is the raising of

the widow of Nain’s son (Luke 7:15),

indicating that the two books are by‘

the same author. Luke is always par-

tiCular how he describes the details

of the various cures.



It is interesting to compare the

three miracles of Christ in which He

raised people from the dead, with this

similar instance at the hands of Peter.

Christ gives us at once the impression

of the master workman, when He en-

ters the presence of death. When He

enters the room where the little girl

lies, dead (Luke‘8:14), it is with an

air of perfect confidence and majesty.

He tells everyone to get out, except

the parents of the child and His own

three companions. With perfect as—

surance, He tells the little girl to

arise. In the case of Lazarus, it is

even more dramatic. He asks that the

grayestone be removed, and, in a tone

of commanding authority cries, “Laz-

arus, come forth!” And the dead man

comes. There is nothing else that he

can do. But in Peter’s case, he real-

izes that he is not the master, but the

servant of the Master. He kneels down

and prays. After praying, he utters

the words of command to the dead.

We like that, in Peter. It shows he

was humble. He “could not do anything

except as God worked with him.





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SUBJECT—Peter at Lydda and Joppa.

GOLDEN TEXT—And they went forth,

and preached everywhere, the Lord

working with them, and conferring

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Dirk looked down at her. , “No.,’-’»He -*





climbed down. “I “suppose that at

about the time they drove this here-

abouts my father was taking the farm

plugs into the Haymarket.” .



Something had- annoyed him; she

saw. Would he wait’while she chang-

ed to walking things? Or perhaps he

would rather drive in the roadster.

' They walked up to thehouse together.

He wished that she would not consult

his wishes so anxiously. It made him

sulky, impatient.



She put a hand on his arm. “Dirk.

are you annoyed at him for what I

said last night?”



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“What did you think when you went

to your room last night? . Tell me.

What did you think?”



“I thought: “She’s bored with her

husband and she’s trying to vamp me.

I’ll have to be careful’ .”





Paula laughed delightedly. “That’s

nice and frank What else ?”



“I thought my coat didn’t fit very

well and I wished I could afford to

have Peel make my next one.”



“You can,” said Paula.





AS it turned out, Dirk was spared

the necessity of worrying about

the fit of his next dinner coat for the

following year and a half. His coat,

during that period, was a neat olive

drab as was that of some millions of

young men of his age, or thereabouts.

He wore it very well, and with the

calm assurance of one who knows that

his shoulders are broad, his waist slim,

his stomach flat, his flanks lean, and

his legs straight. Most of that time

he spent at Fort Sheridan, first as an

officer in training, then as an officer

training others to be officers. He was

excellent at this job. Influence put

him there and kept him there even

after he began to chafe at the re-

straint. Fort Sheridan is a few miles

outside Chicago, north. No smart

North . Shore dinner was considered

complete without at least a major, at

colonel, two captains, and a sprink-

ling of first lieutenants. Their boots

shone so delightfully while dancing.



In the last six months of it (though

he did not, of course, know that it

was to be the last six months) Dirk

tried desperately to get to France. He

was suddenly sick of the neat job at

home; of the dinners; of the smug

routine; of the olive-drab motor car

that whisked him wherever he wanted

to go (he had a captaincy); of mak-

ing them “snap into it”; of Paula; of

his mother, even. Two months before

the war’s close he succeeded in get-

ting over; but Paris was his head-

quarters.



Between Dirk and his mother the

first rift had appeared.



“If I were a man,” Selina said, “I’d

make up my mind straight about this

-‘ war and then I’d do one of two things.

I’d go into it the way Jan Snip goes

at forking the manure pile—a dirty

job that’s got to be cleaned up; or I’d





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refuse to do it altogether if I didn’t

believe in it as a job for me. I’d. fight,

or I‘d be a conscientious objector.

There’s nothing in between for any

one who isn’t old or crippled, or sick.”



Paula was aghast when she heard

this. So was Julie whose wailings had

been loud when Eugene had gone into

the air service. He was in France

now, thoroughly happy. “Do you

mean,” demanded Paula, “that you ac-

tually want Dirk to go over there and

be wounded or killed!” ' g



“No. If Dirk were killed my life

would stop. I’d go on living, I sup~

pose, but my life would have stopped.”



They all were doing some share in

the work to be done.



Selina had thought abo‘ut her own

place in this war welter. She had

wanted to do canteen work in France

but had decided against this as being.

selfish. “The thing for me to do,” she

said, “is to go on raising vegetables

and hogs as fast as I can.” She sup-

plied countless households With free

food while their men were gone. She

herself worked like a man, taking the

place of the able-bodied helper who

had been employed on her farm.





Paula was lovely in her Red Cross

uniform. She persuaded Dirk to go

into the Liberty Bond selling drive

and he was unexpetcedly effective in

his Quiet, serious way; most convinc-

ing and undeniably thrilling to look at

in uniform. Paula’s little air. of pos-

session had grown until now it en-

veloped him. She wasn’t playing now;

was deeply and terribly in love with

him.



’v‘hen, in 1918, Dirk took off his uni-

form he went into the bond depart-

ment of the Great Lakes Trust Com-

pany in which Theodore Storm had a

large interest. He said that the war

had disillusioned him. It was a word

you often heard as a reason or an ex-

cuse for abandoning the normal. “Dis-

illusioned.”



“What did you think war was going

to do?” said Selina. “Purify! It never

has yet.” .



It was understood, by Selina at

least, that Dirk’s abandoning of his

profession was a temporary thing.

Quick as she usually was to arrive at

conclusions, she did not realize until

too late that this son of hers had defi-

nitely deserted building for bonds;

that the Only structures he would rear

were her own castles in Spain. His

first two months as a bond salesman

netted him more than a year’s salary

at his old post at Hollis & Sprague’s.

When he told this to Selina, in tri—

umph, she said, “Yes, but there isn’t

much fun in it, is there? This selling

things on paper? Now architecture,

that must be thrilling. Next to writing

a play and seeing it acted by real peo-





ple—seeing it actually come alive be-

fore your eyes—architecture must be





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straight lines "there, figures, calcula-





tions, blue-prints, measurements-and.

then, suddenly one day; (the actuati

Steel and stone and;

brick, with engines throbbing inside,

it like a heart, and people flowing in-





building itself.





and out. Part of a city. A piece of

actual beauty conceived by you! Oh,

Dirk!” To see her face then must

have given him a pang, it was so alive,

so eager. ,



He feund excuses for himself. “Sell-

ing bonds that make that building pos-

sible isn’t so dull, either.”



But she 'waved that aside almost

contemptuously. “What nonsense,

Dirk. It’s like selling seats at the box

office of a theater for the play inside.”



Dirk had made many new friends in

the last year and a half. More than

that, he had acquired a new mariner;

an air of quiet authority, of assurance.-

The profession of architecture was put

definitely behind him. There had been

no building in all the months of the

war; probably would be none in years.‘

Materials were prohibitive, labor ex-

orbitant. He did not say to Selina

that he had put the other work from

him. But after six months in his new

position he knew that he would never

go back.



From the start he was a success.

Within one year he was so successful

that you could hardly distinguish him

from a hundred other successful young

Chicago business and professional men

whose clothes were made at Peel’s;

who kept their collars miraculously

clean in the soot-laden atmosphere of

the Loop; whose shoes were bench-

made; who lunched at the Noon Club

on the roof of the First National Bank

where Chicago’s millionaire’s ate corn—

ed-beef hash whenever that plebeian

dish appeared on the bill of fare. He

had had a little thrill out of his first

meal at this club whose membership

was made up of the “big men” of the

city’s financial circle. Now he could

even feel a little flicker of contempt

for them. He had known old Aug

Hempel, of_course, for years, as well

as Michael Arnold, and, later, Philip

Emery, Theodore Storm, and others.

But he had expected these men to be

different.



Paula had said, “Theodore, why

don't you take Dirk up to the Noon

Club some day? There are a lot of

big men he ought to meet.”



Dirk went in some trepidation. The

great grilled elevator, as large as a

room, whisked them up to the roof of

the fortress of gold. The club lounge

furnished his first disappointment. It

looked like a Pullman smoker. The

chairs were upholstered in black leath-

er or red plush. The woodwork was

shiny red imitation mahogany. The

carpet was green. There were bright

shining brass cuspidors in the hall

near the cigar counter. The food was

well cooked. Man’s food. Nine out of

every ten of theSe men possessed mil.





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bloOd pressure, hardening arteries, ov-

’erw0rked' heart, rebellious kidneys.

So now they waxed cautious, taking

time over their substantial lunches.

smoking and talking. Their faces-were

impassive, their eyes. shrewd, hard.

Their talk was colloquial and frequent-

ly illiterate. They often said “was"

for “were.” “Was you going to see

Baldwin about that South American

stuff or is he going to ship it through

without?” Most of them had known

little of play in their youth and now

they played ponderously and a little

sadly and yet eagerly as does one to

whom the gift of leisure had come too

late. On Saturday afternoon you saw

them in imported heather green golf

stockings and Scotch tweed suits mak-

ing for the links or the lake. They

ruined their palates and livers with

strong cigars, thinking'cigarette smok-

ing undignified and pipes common.

“Have a cigar!” was their greeting,

their password, their open sesame.

“Have a cigar.” Only a few were so

rich, so assured as to smoke cheap

panatellas. Old Aug Hempel was one

of these. Dirk noticed that when he

made one of his rare visits to the

Noon Club his entrance was met with

a little stir, a deference. He was near-

ing seventy-five now; was still

straight, Strong, zestful of life; a mag-

nificent old buccaneer among the pet—

tier crew. His had been the direct

and brutal method—swish! swash! and

his enemies walked the plank. The

younger men eyed him with a certain

amusement and respect.





These younger men whose. ages

ranged from twerty—eight to forty-five

were disciples of the new system in

business. They were graduates of uni-

versities. They had known luxury all

their lives. They were the second or

third generation. They used the word

“psychology.” They practiced re<

straint. They knew the power of sug-

gestion. \Vhere old Aug Hempel had

flown the black flag they resorted to

the periscope. Dirk learned that these

men did not talk business during meal

time except when they had met defi<

nitely for that purpose. They wasted

a good deal of time, Dirk thought, and

often, when they were supposed to be

“in conference” or when their secre‘

taries said primly that they were very

busy and not to be disturbed until

three, they were dozing off for a com-

fortable half hour in their private of-

fices. They were the sons .of grand-

sons of those bearded, rugged, and

rather terrible old boys who, in 1835

or 1840, had come out of County Lim-

erick or County Kilkenny or out of

Scotland or the Rhineland to mold this

new country in their strong hairy

hands; those hands whose work had





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' ORDER FROM THIS LIST

Pure Hollywood W. 50 100 500 1000

Leghorns (Limited

amount) ........... $8.00 $16.00 $80.00 $ . . .

Hollywood MIN . .. . 5.50 11.00 55.00 1:15)





Utility . . .. ......... rd. 4.75 0.50 47.50

An ones (Sh a



plated) ..... em). . . . 5.50 11.00 55.00 110

Anconas I(lilting) . . . . 5.00 10.00 50.00 100

Brown a z o r a s



(Grade AA) ...... 5.00 10.00 50.00 100





1.50 9.00 45.00 90





) . ............. 0.00 12.09 00.00 120

rred Rocks (Grade

Ba‘ ................. 5:0 11.00 55.00 110

Mixed Chicks (Broilers). 70 Straight.





Live deltver‘y. Lorna. illustrated cuts.-

101 tree.





THE RURAL POULTRY FARM

ZEELAID. men. n. n. I. caxtos





Barred Becks & Beds





chicks from blood tested pure stand-

ard bred cholce selected flecks.





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Prices 50 100 500 1000

Foreman Strain B. P. Rocks....$7.00 $13 $62 $120.

Choice Select B. P. Rocks ..... 6.50 12 57 110

Choice Select R. I. Reds ...... 6.50 12 57 110

Mixed Heavy ...................... 10 50 100





8 to 10-week-old pullets $1.00 each.

100% live delivery guaranteed. Parcel post. prepaid.

Order from this ad.





Krueper Poultry Farm &. Hatchery

Milan, Mich.





PULLETS





Special price on English White Leghorn pullets. rang-

ing from 8 to 12 weeks old. Raised on our own free

range poultry farm. Good strong. healthy stock which

will make good winter layers. Order direct from

this ad. 8 wks. old at 050 each; 10 wks. old at

$1.10 each: 12 wks. old at $1.25 each.





Village View Poultry, R. 3, Zeeland, Mich.





L-O-O-K!





Can ship chicks of high mde quality at once. Barred

Rocks. Reds. White Rocks. 140 each. Wyandottea. Buff

Orpingtons. Buff Rocks. 1550c. White. Brown Leg-

horns. 11c. Anconas. 1254c. Mixed heavies. 12c.

Mixed light breeds. 8c. May chicks $1.00 per 100

less. June chix. $2.00 “255. Order direct from this adv.

If less than 100 is wanted add 350 extra. Hatching

eggs. Free circular tells about 15 first class varieties.

Lawrence Hatchery. R. 7. Grand Rapids. Miohinan.





CHICKS WITH PEP





Ohio Accredited. Every bird passed

by inspector trained and authorized

by the Poultry Department Ohio

state University. Prize winners at

many shows from National down.

Developed for high on production

for many years. Free range docks in

best of health. “00% live delivery.

Thirteen breeds. Catalog i'ree. Price:

low, quality considered.





Holnate Chick Hatchery. Box BM. Melanie. Ohio





Barred Rock Baby Chicks





We‘OhatEh only Barred Rock Chicks from

ch01ce selected stock shipped by pre-





paid parcel. post to your door, satisfac-

tion and a live delivery guaranteed.

CIRCULAR ON REQUEST





3THE KAZOO HATCHERY CO.





8. 0. While ieghirns





the World's Great Egg Machine. 25.000 chicks for M



and June delivery at greatly reduced prices. 100;}:

live delivery guaranteed. by parcel post. 50 at $4.75;

100 at $9.00; 200 or more at $8.50 per 100. These

are all from stock that have free farm range. and

years of. heavy 088 production back of them. Order

from this ad and get chicks when you want them.





Drenlhe Hatchery, Ii. 3, Box 95, Iceland, Mich.





50.010 MONEla‘JkKERGIKIS





Just mail your order. We ship c. 0.46. an -

antes prepaid 100% live delivery of sturdy, mlreglbligd

chicks from healthy. bred-today flocks.. Wh. Br. But!

Leghorns. 9c; Bd. Rooks. Wh. Books. 8. C. Reds

10c; Bufl' Rocks. Bun' 0rps.. Wh. Wyand.. Blk. Min:

orcas. 120: Mixed chicks. 80. Lots of less than 100





chicks. 1c more. Silver Lak ‘

"r Lake, lnd. e Hatchery. Ben: M. 81!-





 





 





 





 





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balance of tIi‘e 3331.15“ cfli'talolzll if9 5 "$300!! for Lb:

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8 weeks old 80c 01.05.0375” 100. 8. C.





the house at Lake Forest next week~—”





£m~mnt mummies: ~

‘_ mic: listened to the talk or the Noon

Club. . .

. “I made it in eighty-six. That isn’t

so bad for the Tippecanoe course.”



“. . ‘. boxes are going pretty well





. but the Metropolitan grabs up all the y

g ~big ones and the'house wants names.‘

" 3 'Garden' doesn’t draw the way she used





to, even in Chicago. It’s the popular

subscription that counts.”



,“. grabbed the Century out of

New York at two-forty-five and got

back here in time to try out my new:

horse in. the park. She's a little ner-

vous for city riding but we're opening





‘ “. . . pretty good show but they

don’t send the original companies

here, that’s the trouble . . .”





. in London. It's a neat shade

of green, isn’t it? You can’t get ties

like this over here, I don’t know why.

Got a dozen last time I was over.

Yeh, Plumbridgc in Bond Street.”



Well, Dirk could talk like that easily

enough. He listened quietly, nodded,

smiled, agreed or disagreed. He look-

ed about him carefully, appraisingly.

Waist lines well kept in; carefully tail—

ored clothes; shrewd wrinkles of ex-

perience radiating in fine sprays in the

skin around the corners of their eyes.

The president of an advertising firm

lunching with a. banker; a bond sales-

man talking to a rare book collector;

a packer. seated at a small table with

Horatio Craft, the sculptor.



Two years and Dirk, too, had learn-

ed to “grab the Century” in order to

save an hour or so of time between

Chicago and New York. Peel said it

was a pleasure to fit a coat to his

broad, flat tapering back, and trousers

to his strong sturdy legs. His color,

inherited from his red—checked Dutch

ancestors brought up in the fresh sea-

laden air of the Holland flats, was fine

and clear. Sometimes Selina, in pure

sensuous delight, passed her gnarled,

work—worn hand over his shoulders

and down his fine, strong, straight

back. He had been abroad twice. He

learned to call it “running over to Eu-

rope for a few days.” It had all come

about in a scant two years, as is the

theatrical way in which life speeds

in America.



Selina was a little bewildered now

at this new Dirk whose life was so

full without her. Sometimes she did

not see him for two weeks, or three.

He sent her gifts which she smoothed

and touched delightedly and put. away;

fine soft silken things, hand—made—

Which she could not wear. The habit

of years was too strong upon her.

Though she had always been a woman

of dainty habits and fastidious tastes

the grind of her early married life had

left its indelible mark. Now, as she

dressed, you might have seen that her

petticoat was likely to be black sat~

een and her plain, durable corset cov-

er neatly patched where it had worn

under the arms. She employed none

of the artifices of a youth—mad day.

Sun and wind and rain and the cold

and heat of the open prairie had

wreaked their vengeance on her flout-

ing of them. Her skin was tanned,

weather—beaten; her hair rough and

dry. Her eyes, in that frame, startled

you by their unexpectedness, they

were so calm, so serene, yet so alive.

They were the beautiful eyes of a wise

young girl in‘ the face of a middle—aged

woman. Life was still so fresh to her.



(Continued next week).





TESTIMONIAL IN RIME.





 





 





My skin was wan and buttery, my

ears were full of buzz, my heart was

weak and muttery, my tongue was full

of fuzz. Depression weighed upon me,

but now I’m feeling fine. My blessings,

then, upon thee, oh herds of lowing

kine, which give the food sustaining

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Cyanogas (Calcium Cyanide) B Dust is a simple,

effective and economical remed for Pear Psylla and

Apple Aphis. Dust the mater-in on the trees and the

moisture in the air liberates hydrocyanic gas, the most

efl'ective insecticide known.





Your dealer has Cyano as (Calcium Cyanide or can

et it for you. Or, we wil send you a hundre pound

gram of B Dust for eleven dollars f.o.b. East St. Louls, III.





Send for free leaflet No. 18- P Which gives full information.





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of Delaware

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WHITE LEGHORN BABY cmcxs

SPECIAL FOR DELIVERY JUNE 1 AND JUNE 8





Selected Mating Extra Selected Mating Special Star Mating

English 'l‘vpe White English ’l‘ype'Wh. English Type Wh.

Leghorns. Br. Leghorns, Leghorns .-

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fir $10 per 100_ $12 per 100 $14 per 100

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IQYEARS $85 per 1000 $105 per 1000 $125 per 1000





   

 





Odds and Ends, $7.50 per 100; $34 per 500; $62 per 1000

ORDER DIRECT FROM THIS AD.



Poultry profits come from flocks in which practically every hen lays stead-

ily. Such flocks can be raised only with chicks which have known high rec-

ord ancestory. This can be expected when you buy chicks from

Wyngarden’s, with 19 years of breeding for high flock averages. Read

our catalog for full information.



English Type White Leghorn

Pullets, 9 weeks old, $1.15 «ch. (In ga rde 17/

$1. in lots of 50 or more. F.O.B- HATCHERY & FARMS

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Prices on Best Chicks After May 20. 100% Live

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Breed. 25 Chicks. 5!! Chicks. :00 Chicks. 500 Chicks. 1000

Tailored and Tom Barron White Leghorn: ........ $2.50 $5.00 8 9.00 $42.60 8 85

Parks’ Barred Rocks ........................... .00 6.00 11.00 52.50 105

S. C. R. I. Reds ............... . 3.00 6.00 11.00 52.50 105

Broiler Chicks ................................................... per 100 $8.00: per 500 $37.50

Heavy Bred Broiler Chicks ....................................... per 100 9.00: per 500 42.50



8 to 10 weeks—old Pullets at attractive prices. Big tine catalog free. Write today. Satisfaction

guaranteed.





BRUMMER-FREDERICKSON POULTRY FARM. Box 20. HOLLAND. MICH-





 





 





 





 





 

 





 





THEY 008T N0 MORE - AND YOU CAN FEEL SAFE





Chicks from our hatchery come up to the standard set by Ohio State Uni-

versity for pure-bred chicks. They have been inspected and have stood the

test. Order today for immediate delivery. or send for catalog. Order our

chicks and feel safe. Prices (Postpaid) on: 26 50 100 500 1000

. 0 W11 2. 0 8 .0





 

   





. ., Br. a Bus Leghorns ............ s 5 5 0 :10 347.50 3 05

emu. firemen Aliggnasn 'k'"'s"'c"'&"i€' 2.50 5.00 10 47.50 05

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C. Reds ................................ 3.00 0.00 12 57.50 11 Immediate .

Wh. Rocks. White Wyandottes .............. 5.50 7.00 14 07.50 135 shipment 100%

s. 0. But! l. Wh. Owingtons .............. 3.50 1.00 14 67.50 135 live delive

Jersey Black Giants ....................... ace 10.00 20 91.50 195 ‘7

Heavy Assorted ............................ 2.50 5.00 10 50.00 100 guaranteed

Light Assorted ............................ 2.00 4.00 e 40.00 . .

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Extra Selected B. P. Racks . 850:5.{0‘0

Selected P. B. Rocks ......................... 10.00 47.00

R. I. Reds ..., ........................... . 41.00

White Leghorns ......................................................... 9.00 42.00

Amuse .................................................................. 9.00 42.00





 

 

 





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‘ Barron W. Leghorn. (270-300 ancestry). 3&0?” i00





Sheppard Anconal (300-000 rauln) 2.00 poi-I00



White Wyandottec (lEvergreenn rtrain).. I6.00 oer I00

Odds and ends. hrollo ............... por'I00

5% discount on orders 30 days In advance. Waste





arrival ouarantoell.





RELIABLE POULTRY FARM AND HATCI'IERY.





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Brod for eggs. not {or show feathers. Every chic!

(tom our farm is of a proven ess- laying strain.





ORDER FROM THESE PRICES.





 





Prices [or May Delivery 100 500 1000

White Le orns .............. $11. 00 $50 00 $ 95 00

Brown Legiorms .............. 11.00 50 00 95. 00

Barred Rocks ................ 14. 00 65.80 125.00

Special Matings. 20 higher per chick.

Prices for June Delivery 100 500 1000

..White Leghorns ........... .. .810. 00 $45. 00 $ 85.00

Brownie orns .............. 0.00 45 00 85. 00

Barred Rocks ................ 1 .00 60.00 115. 00





3

Special Matings 2c higherrper chick.





Broilers. heavy, 10c each: light. So.

100% Live Delivery. Catalog on request.





GREAT NORTHERN HATCHERY.

R. 3, Box 56. Iceland, Mich.





DAY ULD‘WB'H'Im





Tom Barron English White Leghorn

Chicks. Get our reduced prices.

Chicks from our special 2-year-old

hens $8 per 100 lot. $38.50 per 500

lots. $75 per 1000. Order direct from

this advertisement, and save time. Cir-

cular free. Reference, Holland City

State Bank. We guarantee 100% alive

on arrival.





Hillcresl Poultry Farms 81. Hatchery,

R. 2, Box D, Holland, Mich.





BABY CHICKS





WHITE and BROWN LEGHIIIIIIS and IIIGIIIIAS





$9.0 I53 $430033

$7I0





Broilers

Order direct. Hatch every week. We





$53 $340033

guarantee live delivery by Prepaid





Mail. Reference State Com.Bank.





MAIN HATBHERY, - ZEELAND MICH.





Chicks-"Pulleg





High quality stack. Delivery 100% live and strong

guaranteed. Chicks every week. Eight weeks and 3

mo. Pullets.





Barred and White Rooks, Beds, White and Silver

Laced Wyandottes. White and Buff ()rpingtons, Black

Mlnorcas. Anconas. White, Brown and Buff Leghorns.

Send for (‘hick or Pullet (molar with price list.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION

Kalamazoo. Michigan.

Active Member International Chic/l Anotiatian

Member Mirhizan Stan Farm Bureau





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





/. . SPECIAL SALE

‘ \PULLETS&CHICKS





ya a number of 8 week pullets which

\vay: :1: forced to sell at Incrlilce price.

because quarters are too small for growing

stock. Here is your chance to get some good

stock at specially reduced price. Write for prices on these

pallets and dav old chicks. To save money, let quick.



STANDARD HAT( HERY



Box A ZE





ELAND, MICE.

CHICK 30. MID UP. — PULLEIS 600. “Ill UP





Pure- bred, highest quality, best pay-

ing. Low prices on leading varieties.





 

 





 

 





Every Fairview mm is thoroughly in-

specttd by a poultry expert. Custom-

ers report. pullcts laying at three

months , 21 days. Orders filled on

one week's notice. 100% live deliv-

ery guarantor-d. l‘nlnlog free.





FAIRVIEW HATCHERY AND

POULTRY FARM.

Zeeland. Mich. R. 2, Box 203.





White Leghorn Chicks





and 8- weeks Pullets at the following

special redured DI'ItOS.

BABY CHICKS.



May delir'w'y 91. ear-.h June delivery

So each. Odd lots at $7. 50 per 100.

8—week Pullcts at $1.00 o.-.uh 100%

alive delivery guarantetd Prepaid Or—

der at onrc. Shad dy Lawn Poultry

Farm &. Hatchery, Box 5- M, Zeeland,

Mich.





CHICKS at Reduced Prices





Order at once. Satisfied Hollywood Tanrrcd Strain.

White & Brown Leg

500 1000





25100

.32 50 $4. 75 S 9.00 $45. 00 3 90

..... 3. 00 5.75 10.50 52. 50 100





 





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ly giving way to something newer—

the flat threaded bead necklace. These

are very pretty, easy and quick to

make, and very inexpensive, so there

is no reason why the woman who

loves pretty things shOuld not have

several strands. Number 50 croChet

cotton is suitable to make them on. It

is strong enough and is easy to work

with, as well as costing but little.





. A strand of the threaded beads long

enough for a tall woman will require

six bunches of beads. To begin, thread

a slender, long-eyed needle withas

long a length of thread as you can use

conveniently. Knot the end, and string

on nine beads. Then pass the needle

back through the eighth bead, holding

the work snugly between the thumb

and forefinger of the left hand so that

the work will be close and neat. Then

string on three more beads and pass

the needle through the fourth head of

the first nine you string. Draw snugly.

and string three more beads. Pass the

needle back through the middle bead

of the first group of three that you

made. Draw close, string three beads,

and pass the needle back through the

next to the last bead. Continue to

the desired length. When it is neces-

sary to tie on new thread, be sure you

tie it closely and tightly, so there will

be no chance of it getting untied

later on.





When ready to make the tassel, knot

the thread, pass the needle through

the first two heads you strung, then

string on from forty-five to fifty-five

beads, depending on the length tassel

you desire. Pass the needle back

through all but the last bead, then

pass it on through the next of the first

nine beads, string another tassel, etc.

I usually use five strings of beads for

each tassel. Then the beads are knot-

ted in a four-in-hand knot about seven

or eight inches from the ends, and

leaving one end slightly longer than

the other.





Delightful combinations of colors

may be used in these beads. I just

finished a strand, using four bunches

of gold lined beads and two of black. .

I strung them on black thread, using

black beads for the two beads on each

side, forming the “picots.” The result

was charming. The tassel was made

of gold and black beads strung alter-

nately. When ordinary sized beads

are used, the finished strand is about

half an inch Wide. These necklaces

would make charming gifts for almost

any occasion; especially for gradua-

tion.





 





 





 





HOUSE ANTS HAVE BEGUN .TO

SEND OUT THEIR FOOD

“SCOUTS.”





 





LITTLE encouragement is needed

for these small pests to begin

their sp11ng laids on pantries and cup-

boaIds When food is found, these

first daring ants send back the good

word to the colony. In a short time

all the ants have transplanted them-

selves to. the new pantry quarters.

Every housewife who has this situa-

tion before her will be interested in

learning from the Wisconsin depart-

ment of home economics how to get

rid of these pests.

One of the best preventive meas-

ures is to keep the food which the

ants like best out of reach. The small

red ants, or Pharoah’s ants, are red-





 





Zeeland. Mich.





dish orange in color, and they are par-





The New Bead Necklaces

By Nelle Portrey





HE crocheted neck pieces thatticularly attracted by such foods as

have been so popular for sev-





bacon, lard, meats and sweets. Sweets

are preferred by both the large and

the small black ants. .



Ant preventive paper may now be

purchased at a small cost, and it is

very effective in ridding the house of

ants.





Trap the Ants.





Ants may be destroyed by trapping

them. This may be done by soaking

a sponge in sweetened water and plac-

ing it in a small tin or paper box

where it may be reached easily by the.

When a large number of ants

have collected on the sponge, they

may be killed by dropping them into





ants.





Toothso





boiling water. The process .1 my: be

repeated until the ants have all been





killed in this manner.





Ants which infest the lawns should

be killed in order to prevent their e11-

trance into the house in search of

food. When there is only a small col-

ony of ants, they may be destroyed by

putting a little kerosene or boiling

water into their nests.





When the ants are in larger colon-

ies, a poisonous substance is required





to kill them. Carbon disulphid, which

is dangerous near a fire, may be used.

It may be injected into the ant holes





can. After the'carbon disulphid has

been added, each hole must be cov-

ered with a little soil and pressed

down with the foot.

pass down through the soil slowly and

kill the ants.





me Cakes





By Le/dfi Fowler





OW, while the hens are turning



in a harvest of eggs, is the time



to enjoy the toothsome sponge

cakes. And most of us’enjoy them

with fruit so both hens and garden

are trying to make this exactly the

right time for this kind of a cake.



If we wish to make a regulation or

true sponge cake, we must remember

that beating and folding are the only

motions to use. Never stir a sponge

cake or you will break down the air

bubbles and the result will be a heavy

cake.



A slow oven is best for these cakes,

but it must not be too slow. About

300 degrees is the best. Do not shake

it and do not open the oven until you

think the cake is nearly done. It will

take about forty-five minutes in a slow

oven. "





A good standard recipe for sponge

cake is.





5 eggs 1 cupful of flour

1 cupful finely granu- 1.5 tsp. salt and sea.-

lated sugar soning desired





1,5 cup of water 1 tsp. baking powder



Beat the eggs with half the sugar.

till they thicken, add the water and

iemainder of the suga1 and beat

again. Add flavoring and the flour,

which has been sifted, with salt and

baking powder.



Bake in a thin layer and spread

with crushed and sweetened strawber-

iies and you will have a delicious

strawberry cake.



Crushed raspberries or any kind of

fruit is nice in this cake. If you like

rhubarb, you will enjoy a cake that

has been filled with a thick, rich rhu-

barb sauce.



The lemon filling like you use for

your favorite lemon pie, will make a

wonderful cake. Spread the meringue

over the top of the cake.





 





Y’Bez‘c/za, T fiat’r Li‘vz'rz’





Just to hear the singing

Of the birds now a-winging

Homeward, Skyward, spreading

cheer;

Just to see the flowers

Open after the showers

In the springtime of the year;

Just to scent the breeze

Coming through the trees

When the orchards are in blos-

som;

Just to 'bait your hook

Beside a purling brook

And come home hungry ’s a.

’possum—

Y’Betcha, that’s livin’.

—J. Roy Zeiss.





 





 





 





Shredded or chapped‘pineapple that

has been sweetened also makes an

ideal combination in this kind of a

cake.



If a cupful of finely chopped nut

meats is added to the batter you will

have an excellent nut cake.



One-half cupful of cocoanut may be

added to the batter to make a. cocoa-

nut cake.





If you wish an extra nice sponge

cakae 6gtry this one:

2 tsp. baking powder





1 cupful sifted. flour





1 cupful granulated

sugar 1~3 tsp. salt





55 cupful hot water



Beat the yolks, add sugar and beat

again. Add water and flour and beat

thoroughly, first sifting flour with salt

and baking powder. Add beaten whites

and fold in carefully. Bake as in first

cake and use the same way.





 





STORY OF MY SECOND YEAR’S

FOOD WORK.





 





EING a second—year cooking club



girl of the “Always Ready” Club

of Carmel Center, I will tell you what

we did. Our club was organized June

23, 1924, with three second—year girls

and three first-year. We elected offi—

cers, chose purple and white for our

colors, and “Near the Top and Still

Climbing,” for our motto.





Our leader, Mrs. Cotton, has been

very faithful and kind and has helped

us whatever and whenever she could.





Through the summer my mother let

Martha and I sleep mornings until we

awoke ourselves, and by that time the,

men Were in the fields to Work, and

then we had to get our own break-

fast. This gave us a. chance to prac-

tice our egg, milk and cereal dishes

and nobody’s digestion was endanger-

ed but our own.



At the county fair we had to give a.

demonstration. We baked baking pow-

der biscuits and raspberry Shortcake.

After we had baked them we let those

who were near sample them and we

were told by all that they were very

good. Then we had to wash the dish-

es. Generally I don’t like that job

(was there ever a. girl who did) but

that day I as glad when I got

that far.





Since taking club work, I have learn-

ed to like some vegetables that I

didn’t eat before, such as carrots, peas

and celery.



Club work has done a great deal for

this community, especially the canning

club, and next year I hope to see all

of the girls in our community inter-

ested in some form of club work.———‘

Madeline Ransom, Eaton County.





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your household‘ problems. Address





your letter to MarthavCole, Michigan

Farmer, Detroit, Mich.





PROPER WEIGHT FOR MAPLE

SYRUP.





 





I am making syrup now, and what

is the right weight for syrup to stand

the law?—C. F. 'H. ‘



It is necessary for one gallon of

maple syrup to Weigh eleven pounds,

to come up to the market standard.





 





SOAP FROM WHITE TALLOW.





 





Will you please tell me how to make

soap by using white tallow?—Mrs. T.





To make soap with white tallow, use

the following formula:



One can of commercial lye, six

pounds of mutton or beef tallow, two

and one-half pints of water. The sub-

stitution of one pound of tallow with

lard, cocoanut oil, or olive oil, will im-

prove the tallow soap. It is best to

make the soap in a stone jar or iron

vessel, never use aluminum ware.



Put the water in the vessel, and add

the lye, stirring until dissolved. Heat

the tallow to 130 degrees Fahrenheit,

and add the lye solution to it in a

small, steady, slow stream. Rapid ad-

dition of lye or hard stirring is liable

to cause separation. Continue stirring

for ten minutes until the product is

rather thick and syrupy. Then pour

into moulds. Wooden trays lined with

oiled paper or cheesecloth makes a

suitable mould. Cover the mould with





saw:





a blanket or Carpet and set in a warm

room. Let stand for twenty-four hours,’

and cut with fine wire, or knife, into

the size cakes desired, and place so

as exposed to the air. Age improves

soap.





RED .KIDNEY BEANS FOR SALAD.





 





Can you please send me a recipe for

canning red kidney beans to be used

in salads, etc., and oblige—Mrs. H. P.





To can red kidney beans to be used

in salads or as a vegetable, wash the

beans thoroughly and blanch in boiling

water from two to five minutes, ac-

cording to the maturity of the beans.

Add a teaspoon of salt to the quart

after they have been packed in ster-

ilized jars, and filled with boiling wa«

ter. Some tastes prefer a teaspoonful

of sugar added also.



Process these in the hot water bath

for three hours or in a steam pressure

cooker for forty minutes, under fifteen





Ear-rings are an index or table—of-

contents, and reveal what is inside the

head, between the ear-rings.



“There is no other household pest

of its size that exacts a larger toll in

dollars and cents than the cunning

clothes moth,” says Edna M. Callahan,

clothing specialist at Ohio State Uni-

versity. “It never counts the cost,

but selfishly uses whatever presents

itself: your new overcoat, your best

suit, a felt hat, and expensive pair of

woolen blankets, t'urs and feathers—a

the best is none too good.





 





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F0 R‘WD U R 6E3

LITTLE’wFDLKS





' "“UIIJ'IM" ‘-;’.’/





 

 

 





Woodland





T /ze Lemon from tbe W oodpecéer





ITTLE Sammy Squirrel had been

L frisking about from tree to tree,



turning somersaults from one

branch to another, when the Little

Brown Bear also came out to play.

Brownie soon scrambled up into the

tree where Sammy was. He was not

nearly so quick as Sammy. When

Sammy Squirrel hopped from one

branch to another he was very spry

and graceful, but as Brownie tried to

follow him he was very clumsy. It

seemed as though Brownie’s big paws





 





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Reddy Woodpecker Worked Very Hard

to Get His Supper.





never quite landed in the right place

and Brownie would slip and slide this

way and that in trying to do the tricks

Sammy could do so easily.





Finally these two Woodland play-

mates became hungry, so left their

play to go into the house for a lunch.



“Please, Bruin, we are very hungry

and would like some blueberries,” said

Brownie. ;



“I am sorry, Bro’wnie, but there are





no more blueberries left in the bas-

ket,” replied Bruin. “Besides, you are

'big enough now to hunt for your own





food. Take the basket to the berry

patch and fill it with berries for

supper."





Brownie’s l'ace. tell. “But, Bruin, I

am so hungry right now,” said Little

Brownie.





“Then the quicker you find that

patch of blueberries the better,” said

Bruin. “You and Sammy are. both

large enough to find your own food

now. You must not depend on Rolly

Rabbit and myself any more. Listen,

there is someone, very, very much

smaller than you are, working very

hard to find his supper."



Sammy and Brownie. listened.



“Tap, tap, tap! Drum, drum, drum,”

they heard.



“\\'ho is that?” asked Sammy.

.“That is Roddy Woodpecker,” said

Bruin.





 

 





 

 





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country are confirmed Vitali boosters. Profit

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that eggs and poultry will bring high prices from now on and that these chicks

will be money makers. Will ship any number of chicks from 25 on up. On orders: for 25 to

50 chicks add 25:: extra to your order.





 





S. C. Anconas, S. C. White and Brown Leghorn 10c

S. C. Reds, Barred and White Rocks . . 12c

R. C. Reds, White and Silver Laced Wyandotte‘s 13c

Columbian Wyandottes, S. C. White Minorcas . . . 15c

S. C. Buff Orpingtons . 14c All Heavy Odds and Ends 10c

S. C. Black Minorcas . 13c All Light Odds and Ends 8c





Heavy and [fight Odds and Ends as they come . . . . 9c

On rder for 25 to 50 Chicks, Add 25c Extra to Your Order.



Order direct. from this ad. Attractive catalogue free. With every order for 100 or more chicks we furnish



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75% or OUR SALES EACH HEAR/IRE T0 ow cusroMER





TANGREflw—ENGLISH S. 0. WHITE IEGHORNS





EARLY JUNE DELIVERY.

50 100 500 1000



Eng. Type Mating (Extra Selected)..$4.50 $ 9 $42.50 $ 85.00

Tancred—English mating (Special)... 5.50 ll. 52.50 102.50



(225 to 299-egg males).



Broilers. To each.

Do not miss this opportunity to get these chicks at the low prices

quoted. OUR PEN IS LEADING THE ENTIRE LEGHORN DI-

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once. 100% live. and good condition guaranteed. Order today.

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ROYAL HITCHERI IND FIRMS, S. P. Wiersma, Zeeland, Michigan, R. 2





iDOWNS TAI'ICRED'BARRON





1 882 For forty three year: the name Downs has been associated with poultry.





During most of this time our business has been purely local. Thru 1 925





this local business we have built up a reputation for





HIGH QUALITY WHITE LEGHORN’S





Fostoria, Ohio





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





   

     





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That. has brought us rcuilrs over a much larger field than we had anticipated. \Vn now make this! (Mlbwlng



prices, 100% LIV“ Dclivm-y Guaranteed. Postpaid. Roll, Romeo Savings Bank. Romeo. Michigan.



For Delivery on and after June 1st. Postpaid 25 50 100 500 1000

" $l2.50 $86.00





Saulmy SQUII'I‘QI and Brownie went I Tom Barron Selected “'hite Leghorns ............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2.. n $5.00 $0.00





out by the old oak tree to watch him.



Drill, drill, drill, into the hard tree

trunk. Reddy would listen a minute

and with his long bill would quickly

dive into the hole he had made, for

the little bug he had worked so hard

to get. Then, “tap, tap, tap! Drum,

drum, drum.” he would start all over





again.

Sammy Squirrel and the Little

Brown Bear watched Reddy Wood-





pecker find four bugs for his supper.

“I would much rather pick blueber—

ries for my supper," said Brownie.

“And so would I,” said Sammy, as

they scampered off toward the berry

patch without another grumble.





HONESTY IS OUR MOTTO and our business has bcen founded and built. up on this principle. 'Get scum!

They will prove a. [nightly profitable invostxnu-nt for you. I‘ockerels will





Get our Free I‘auxlg.





Box 104,





of these good Barron Juno I‘hicks.

be fully matured tor 1020'





W. A. Downs Poultry Farm,





breeding season.





Washington, Michigan





”QUALITY '

c H IC KS '





 

   

   





   





 





REDUCED ROCK BOTTOM PRICES MAY 4th TO SEPT. Isl. THOUSAN OF

PLEASED CUSTOMERS TESTIFY TO THEIR WONDERFUL QUALITY. YPE.

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

ORS. Read the many testimonials full of praises which highly ludorse our Chicks.

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

WE GUARANTEE OUR BIRDS FREE FROM NEW EUROPEAN AND.





ems.

OTHER DISEASES. 100% Live Delivery Postpaid. Bank llef.. Mem. I. B. C. A.

and Ohio (‘. A. ‘

ALL LEADING VARIETIES Prices now 25 50 100 300 500 1000

White. Brown & But! Leghorns. Anconas ...................... $2.50 $4.75 8 9.00 $25.50 $42 80

Barred & VVhlte Rocks, R. l. Reds ............................. 3.25 0.00 11.50 33.00 52 100

Bl. Mlnnrca. Wh. Wyandotte. Wh. & Bufl 0rpington.......... 3.75 7.00 13.50 39.00 62 120 '

Buff & Wh. Mintyca, Sil. Wynndotte. S. Sussex ................ 6.00 9.00 17.00 48.00 80





Heavy Mixed. 100. $9.50.





Lt. Brahma. Gol. Wyandotte. 20c each. Light Mixed. 100. 33-

BO NAPOLEON. OHIO-





NEUHAUSER HATCHERIES. X 62.
.. of see , - rices

-' '_ ‘ Fer June 2, .79, 416', 23 and 30 Delivery '. '

Our English Type White Leghorns-I

The Big, Deep-Bodied Hens with the Large

Combs+They Produce the Large White Eggs





GRADE A MATING. .



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

pen of 000 yearlings averaged 200 or more eggs each. during their pullet year. -~

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

ities and are now mated to 100 males from hens with 270-033 record parents stock and sired by

a male from a 300—egg record hen in 365 days. _



Chicks from this mating will prove to be a very good investment and they will develop into

very profitable hens to their owners. . '

PRICES GRADE A MATING.



Per l00

”4.00



GRADE 8 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 pullet year. and were sired by males from hens

with egg records of 245 in their pullct year. »



These ware formerly listed as our “Extra. Selected" 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. .



PRICES GRADE 8 MATING.

Per 50 Per [00

$5.50 SII.00





Per 25

$3.75





Per 50





Per 500

$7.00





Per woo

$67.50 $130.00





Per 25





Per I000 .

$3.00..





For 500

’ s I 00.00





$52.50



GRADE 0 MATING.



The chicks offered from Grade C Mating are from breed-

ers with careful selection and have generations of good breed-

ing back of them. The males Used are from a special pen

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

duced. but have no official egg records from either the sire or

dam side. These chicks will make a good commercial flock

for good production.





 

 





PRICES GRADE 0 MATING.

Per 25 Per 50 Per I00 Per 500 Per I000

$2.50 $4.50 $9.00 $45.00 $85.00





100% Safe Arrival Guaranteed—Shipped by parcel post

paid to your doom—You will be bcneiitted by our 15 years‘

breeding this type of Logiiorns—Also the many years of ex—

perience hatching and shipping chicks.



Our stock grows up uniform in size, has great vitality and

brings big returns in our customers' hands. Order direct

from thin ad. to save time, or Write for our 24-year: catalogue.



ms: I0% with order, balance just before chicks are

shipped. or 25% with order, balance 0. 0. D. if desired.





The Wolverine Hatchery,

H. P. Wiersma, Prop., Zeeland, Mich-





 





f‘f‘fli'i FF“: UOOI‘W





BRED FOR SIZE,





TYPE and EGGS

SINCE 1910.





 





 





l 000 000 B b' ’ Q H CH k

FOR l925. Breeders of highest egg producing strains in all leading varieties. You will be

greatly pleased with results obtained from our heavy layers.



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

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

Single and Rose l‘omb Brown Leghorns .................. 2.75 5.50 10 45 88

Single (.‘omb Buf‘l‘ Leghorns ............................ .75 5.50 10 45 88

S. C. Mottled Anconas, Barred Rocks .................. 3.75 7.00 13 62 120

S. 0. and It. (‘. R. I. Reds ............................. 3.75 7.00 13 02 120

White and Buff Rocks .................................. 3.75 7.00 13 02 120

White Wyandottes. Black Minorcas ...................... 3.75 7.00 13 02 120

Bufl’ and White Orpingtons ............................. 4.50 8.50 17 82 160

Silver Wyandottcs, Light Brahmas, Langshans ............................. 4.50 8.50 17 82 100





15 other rare varietiess Mixed. all Heavies, $11 per 100. All Light. $9 per 100. Light and Heavy Mixed,

$10 per 100. DUCKLINGS, l'ckins. 25. $7.50; 50. $15; 100. $30. White and Fawn Rumors, 25, $0.50; 50,

$13; 100, $25. Remember, Quality goes ahead of price. (‘onsidcr this when you place your order, and please

note we guarantee 100% Live Delivery and Chicks that will please you. No Chicks shipped C. _O. D .A

least 10% of purchase price must come with order. Bank Reference. You cannot go wrong incidents;

direct from this ad. (‘hicks from EXTRA SELECT FLOCKS, $3 per 100 higher than above prices. and

(.‘hicks from our Blue Ribbon Pens. $5 per 100 higher. Write at once today.



FLIIIT, HIGH.





BABIOII’S FRUIT 8: POULTRY FARM, Box 354, .





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

which represent years of breeding for egg production and perfection, re-

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

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

heat; also develop quickly into heavy wintcr layers. (‘uilcd thoroughly

for health, vigor and uniform color. Live delivery guaranteed. Prompt

shipmcnt, prepaid. To get first grade egg-bred chicks, order at these

low prices.





   





 

 

   

   

   

   

   

 





S. (F. White chhorns. per 100..$ll.00 Anconas ................ per 100 $12.00

Single Comb Buff Leghorns. Der S. t‘. lihode ls. Reds. per 100 13.00



100 ........................... 10.00 Barn-d Rocks ........... per 100 13.00

H. L. CARL. Box 00, Montgomery, Mich.





   





 





—____.____

TYRONE POULTRY FARM





Let us sell you your 1925 Chicks from pure-bred. select White and Brown Leghorns.

Barred. \Vhitc and Buff Rocks. B I. Reds, Anconas. Black and White Minor-cas, White.

Buff, Golden and Silver Wyandottes, “hits and Buff Orpingtons, Black Spanish. Light

Brahmas. etc. Of leading strains such as Barron. Parks, etr'.





3000 CHICKS GIVEN AWAY TO OUR CUSTOMERS DURING I925.





 

   

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





 





Dear M. C.’s and'Uncle Frank: .



I am wondering how many Merry

Circlers like ’to sing. I, for one, just

love it. There is nothing Irv-can listen

to that will flood my heart with pleas-

ure like good music.





Who of us, when we were small, did

not like to have mother or daddy

spend an evening singing to us? I’m

sure that for many of us yet there

are not prettier or sweeter songs than

the good old-fashioned songs like

“Jesus Lover of My Soul,” or “Abide





 





} . , \ .

Treva Hotchkiss Drew this Picture of

“The Little Mother.”





With Me.” And who doesn’t like to

hear “Home, Sweet Home,” or “Old

Folks at Home.”





In my mind it would be a reflection

on these good old songs to even com-

part they with the “Jazzy,” “Bing

Bang” stuff one hears sometimes.





It does me good to think of the

greatness of “My Country ’Tis of

Thee.” How the author must have

loved his and our own country.





Then one can listen to the birds

sing. To me there is a sweetness that

cannot be excelled, or even attained

by human voice in the voice of the

robin as it calls to its mate in the

early morning. -



Who of us are not drawn closer to

our Creator by spending perhaps only

an hour listening to the sweet songs

of the woodland birds.





To me the wonder of listening to a.

good singer is much more enjoyable

than to hear a musical instrument, be-

cause a person has the privilege of





One'thing that gives me very much

pleasure and happy anticipation, is

that when we get “over yonder” we

have ‘the promise of _ having music

which : is p even far sweeter than any

on this earth.



I am sure you Merry Circlers all

love music of some. kind. Indeed, I

never saw a person who did not like

it in some form. Music has a. sweet-

ening, softening effect on any one if

it is of the right kind.



Let’s hear of some more who love

music. .



I am sending a little donation to

help supply music to the tuberculosis

children.



Yours for better and more music,

Lilly Each, M. C.-





 





Our Letter Box





Dear Uncle Frank:

read Marjorie Goodburne’s letter



and it made me think of a lot of boys

who tried to fool their teacher. The

teacher would have the boys brin all

sorts of bugs. He would tell em

What kind they were. One day the

boys started to make something. They

made a thing that looked like a. funny

bug which they thought would stcik

the teacher. When they had it finish-

ed they gave it to the teacher and

asked him what it was. He said, “Oh,

you can’t fool me, that’s a. humbug.”



Well, I must close my foolishness

and get to my studies. With hopes of

seeing this in print—Dorothy Havens,

Gagctown, Michigan.



Your teacher was right, as well as

witty. Humbugs are usually found out

in due time.





 





Dear Uncle Frank:





I- received my membership card and

but ton yesterday morning. I thank

you very much for giving me the priv-

ilege to call myself a member of the

Merry Circle. Our ambition should be

to Show the world by words and deeds

that we are M. C.’s and to help all

those in need any time and anywhere.

Then the Merry Circle will be known

to all the people of Michigan as a. club

of Igood sound American boys and

gir s.





I am busy all day long. I surely

work harder than most girls. Well,

I will cut short my talk, otherwise the

Honorable W. B. Will gobble me up





We guarantee 100% Live Delivery, Postpaid. Reference: Commercial State Savings Bank.

Before ordering (‘hicks elsewhere, get our special circular containing our low prices and

particulars about the 3000 PRIZE CHICKS.





TYRONE POULTRY FARM, DEPT. 20, FENTON. MICHIGAN.





Buy Michigan Quality Chicks





and you won't be bothered with White Diarrhea. because our hatching equipment is the best, and because

our Flecks n-ro llcnlthy matured Birds on range. Our Leghorns are Barron & Tancred strain. headed by

Pedigreed males direct from Eckart, Pioneer breeders of Anconas. Also Barred Rocks & S. C. Reds of





best blood lines.

CHICKS—Assortcd lots $75 per 1000. $8.00 per 100. Quality and live delivery

illiarantced. Order now or write for free Illustrated Catalogue. Also 8 8; 10





SPEC'A week-old pullets.

Michigan Hatchery 8. Poultry Farm, Box I, Holland, Mich.





. . Pure Bred Baby Chicks

, ‘ $8.00 Per 100 and up





We are now booking orders for May and June chicks. from

and White Leghorns. These chicks are from extra selected hens mated to Tancred

and Sheppard males. We insure our chicks for one week. Write for our catalog and

prices before you buy. we can save you money.





M. D. Wyngarden R. 4 Box 6,





NO





our high grade Anconas





 





ZeeIand, Michigan





Large. vigorous, peppy chicks





that will

completely satisfy you.





 





100 500

Barron Strain, S. C. White Leghorns .......... $10 $45

Barred Rocks ............... 12 55

S. C. R. I. Reds“ .......... 12 55

R. C. R. 1. Beds .................. 13 00

Anconas & Brown Leghorns . ............. ll 50

Broilers. Mixed 35





................................. 8



Eggs for hatching. Half Price of chicks. Pullets $1.25 each.

Order now direct from Ad. We give you service. We posi—

tively guarantee to satisfy you. 100% alive guaranteed.

CO-OPERATIVE FARMS. ' ' Box 8. ZEELAND. MIGH





 





 





{really “feeling” the song and impart-

!ing that “something” to the listeners

which I can not describe, but which is

lacking in an instrument. Perhaps

other people feel differently about it,

but for me I enjoy vocal music much

more than instrumental.





THINK I shall liken our Merry Cir-



cle Fund to the oak, in that it is

slow growing, but when it gets grown

it may be worth something. The spring

rains which help things to grow so

well, have not caused many new

growths to the Fund; it seems just; to

grow a little each day.

We now have $87.28 in the fund;





 





 





pretty close to the half-way mark, but

it’s a. long way to those radios yet;

the radios that the boys and girls

who are fighting the T. B. at the How-

ell Sanitarium are waiting for.



Quite a few boys and girls have not

yet sent in their inickels and dimes.

Have you sent yours? Certainly you





 





are not going to let'a’comparatively





 





 





Frances Hibbard and Two Other M.

C.’s Remind us of what is Coming.





The Radio Fund





few do all to make this fund a suc-

cess? I am sure that you will want to

do your share. This is the time of the

year when one can earn a little mon-

ey. I think you will find it easy to

earn the small amount which should

be your portion in this fund.



You can send the amount you want

to give in stamps, money, P. 0. order,

or check. Most contributors send the

money wrapped in a piece of paper

and enclosed with a letter.



Will your nickels or dimes help to

make the fund grow this coming week?

I hope so. Send them to Uncle Frank,

Michigan ’Farmer, Detroit, Michigan,





and I will write you a letter telling

you I got them. '





   

 





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nation. one of deeds'as well as. or‘ds.





It’s the doing that counts." I am glad

you are such an enthusiastic member.





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Dear Uncle Frazik: ,



I have been reading the “Girls and

Boys” page for a long time, and I cer-

tainly enjoy it immensely. Now I





have answered your cOntest, and am





home, and when I work in the fields.

I don’t see anything wrong in wearing

them, do you, Uncle Frank?



By the work I do you might call me

half-boy and half-girl, for I_ do boys

'work as well as girls. I.r1de horse-

back, bicycles, and can dr1ve our car.



Uncle Frank, I think I have a rec-

ord. I'have missed milking only two

times during these last three years.

I milked six cows almost every night

this winter, and three or tour every

mornin .



Wheg it is warm I never milk in the

barn, for our cows are so used _to me

that they let me milk them in the

barnyard. I just like to m_1lk and do

chores.——Your want-to—be-niece, Mary

Vitck, R. 5, St. Johns, Michigan,



You have done very well to keep so

steady at milking. No, I do not be-

lieve it wrong to wear knickers or





overalls. I wear them sometimes





myself.

_____________.__.





PUZZLE MAKING CONTEST.





 





' EVERAL times Merry Circlers have



asked for a cross Word puzzle—mak-

ing contest. I have hesitated about

running one because I have quite a

few on hand, but now I think I shall

have to give the puzzle makers a

chance to make. So for this week we

will have that kind of a contest.



Most of you know how to make

cross work puzzles, so it will not be

necessary for me ’to say anything

about it. The neatest and best origi-

nal cross word puzzles gotten up will

get the prizes. Please make one dia-

gram with the correct answers in it,

as well as the one with the blank

spaces.



The usual ten prizes will be given,

and M. C. buttons and cards will go

to each one who sends in a good orig—

inal cross word puzzle, if they are not

now Merry Circlers. Please make or—

iginal puzzles only. Also put M. C.

after your name if you are a Merry

Circler.



Send your puzzles to Uncle Frank,

Michigan Farmer, Detroit,_Michigan,

by June 5.





 





HIGH SCHOOL WINNERS MEET.





WELVE hundred ,boys and girls

from over a hundred Michigan

towns, the largest group ever banquet-

ed as a single unit in East Lansing,

were guests of the Michigan State Col-

lege at a dinner and reception ten-

dered contestants at the annual Smith-

Hughes Michigan high school judging

contests, on Thursday evening, May 14.

The Schwartz Creek Band, tradition—

al M. S. C. clown organization, started

things off when it boomed down the

long floor, rendering a hilarious bur-

lesque of “Miser-ere,” after which the

individual players entertained the vis-

itors for a few moments with their

stock jokes like, “\Vho’s that lady,

father?” “Hush, Joey, that’s your

mother,” and similar foibles which

took the youngsters by storm. 0



E. E. Gallup, superintendent of ag-

ricultural education, oliiciating as

toastmaster, introduced President Ken-

yon L. Butterfield, and R. S. Shaw,

dean of agriculture, who gave short

addresses of welcome.



Elbert Kelsey, Grand Ledge high

school boy, responded to the welcome

and expressed the pleasure of the

boys and girls at the hospitality ac-

corded them on their visit.



"Opportunities in New Agriculture,”

was the subject of a talk by Professor

Eben Mumford, in which he‘presented





’ Music m'providedby' the M."S. G.‘

Varsity Quartette, assisted by a '«pro-i

gram by winners in the community

singing contest, students from Eaton

Rapids,

Creek and Mason.



the group in singing.





talk by 0.

board of vocational education.





Hastings, Battle

John George led





Lowell,





The banquet closed with a short;

M. Love, of the federal





 





B. A. Walpole, of the department of

education at Michigan State College.

Contest judges worked night and





ad. for prompt attention.

—8 weeks to maturity.





Ml LAN HATOHERY,





_ Our ability

Increased profits

faithful service.





 





100%





Blood Tasted

Stock,



We are Bred for Size



and Egg Production





to lay It an

through a. long life of

Our blood will prove its





Box 4,





early age moans





writing to you aSking if I may jOin - - - worth in the care of poultry raisers. Our -

your happy family of M. C.’s? Please The Smith-Hughes Judging contest My ”mm mm. 274 m. chicks from bum tested stock cost no mm fly 3%?clg;y.record. 280 cm

do not refuse me for I want you for which this year attracted 1 509 high in 365 days. at 3 yuan oi‘ than other chicks. an our breeding stock

1 d the M C IS for my ’ ago. has been tested 'for Bacillary White Diarrhea.

gfismugc e an ' -' school students to East Lansing for. Pm“ (postpaid) on 50 100 so 1900

I don’t use powder. rouge. or lip- the W0 days of “‘6 :‘mtest’ W61; the fiflmn' 1" Etivgocafv ldfif’dfi alarm::::::::.'::::::::::::33:32:23 $0303 2“$3138 $1038

- - . - ° ' r - W. P. Rocks and . yan ottes .................. . .................. .50 10.00 ..-. ........

StICk’ and my hair IS 1.01.115’ but I d3 mOSt SIICCBSSIIIII‘ “1 t e hlSIZQ y ag Utilitymd Eng. Barron S. C. W. Leghorns ....... ................ 0.50 11.00 55.00 110.00

wear overalls and knlc ers 31'0““ ricultural teaching, according to Prof. Tancrod American s. C. w. Leghorn ............................... 7.50 14.00 70.00 135.00

Mixed. "Chicks (:11 heavies). $130 straight. Mixed Chicks (1.11 varieties). $9 straight. Order right from this

live delivery. Our experience and reputation is your guarantee. Pullers





Milan, Micoigan





 





day up until the middle of the follow-

ing week in looking over and making

record of the more than 15,000 individ-

ual grading cards turned in by the

students—Jno C. Cook.





 





TH E HAPPINESS WINNERS.





‘ HE Merry Circles certainly spread



themselves in trying to get as.

many words as possible from “Spread-

ing Happiness.” There were a lot of

letters in those words to work with

and with the use of a dictionary the

lists of words grew large.





Ell-ctr

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The prize winners are as followsn

The number of words alter their pa-

pers were corrected are also given. I





Fountain Pens.

1001 Irene Fry, R. 3, Gladwin, Mich.

996 Verda Cole, R. 7, Mt. Pleasant,

Mich.





 





Dictionaries.

David M. Kurtz, Holly, Mich.

Genevieve Eger, Goshen. Ind.

Ruth Gell, Rochester, Mich.

Knives.





812

732

707





655 Richard Carpenter, Sparta, Mich.

650 Cornelia Scholten, R. 5, Zeeland,

595 Eddie Stables, R. 4, Traverse

City, Mich.

581 Alida W'esters, R. 8, Grand Rap-

ids, Mich.





570 Ruahmah J. Hutchings, R. 6,





Howell, Mich.





 





WHICH SCHOOL BEST?





Y opinion is this, there should be'



nothing but consolidated schools.

The little red school should be a thing

oi? the past the same as the sickle,

flail, cradle and such things are to a

farmer.



Why should one teacher do the work

of at least three or four? It almost

seems impossible for one to teach.

eight grades, but it is being done all

over the country. How can a teacher

teach each child as she should, when

she has eight grades and at least six

or seven studies in each grade? It

can’t be done, and 1 think the sooner

the people realize this the better it

will be.



I hope in the near future there will

be nothing but consolidated schools,

as everything else is so far advanced.

Why should our schools be neglected?

Why not have modern schools, the

same as the children in the city? Are

they any better than We? Of course

not.

need waking up before they realize the





 





fact that what we need is consolidated





schools. How far has our Little Red

School advanced in the last half cen—

tury? Not very far in accordance with

the city schools.-—-Caroline Englehardt,

R. 2, Auburn, Mich.





 





Dear Sir:



Just a few lines to say we are all

interested in the boys’ and girls’ page

in the Michigan Farmer. I like to

read that page as well as the children

do. Am glad of the Merry Circle fund

to help the little sick folks.



I have seven of my owu, and it takes





a great deal to keep so many healthy





and fed. But I truly thank God they

are all well, even though they are not

always dressed well. So they are send-

ing what they can spare just now, hop-

ing this little bit will help a little.

They don’t have much money at this

time, not until berries come.

best Wishes, from M. M. and children.





\Vhite Leghorns .....

II. 1. Beds ..

Barred Rocks





It’s just that some of our people;





W'ith 1‘





Order Now from This

New Price List





Every Eagle Nest Chick is produced from flocks culled and banded by

experts appointed by Ohio State University.





BABY Varieties. Prices on 50 100 300 500 1000

White. Brown & Buff Leghorns ...... $5.00 3 9.00 $20.00 $42.00 $80

Barred. White & Bull Rocks. Ancona~

; Black Minorcas. S. C. & II. t‘. Reds 0.00 11.00 01.50 52.00 100



White Wyandottes .................... 0.50 12.00 35.00 55.00 105

Jumbo Brahmas ...................... 9.00 10.00 40.00 75.00 ...

Buff Minorcas ....................... 9.00 16.00 46.00 75.00

Mixed Chicks (not accredited). Light. tic. Heavy. 81'. 100% Live Deliv-

ery guaranteed. Postpaid to your door. Send remittance with order.

Send your order now to





Eagle Nest Hatchery





Upper Sandusky, Ohio





 





 





 





 





 





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All Leghorns mfih' own stock.

Bank.





Try Our Blood Tested White

Leghorn Chicks





$12.00 per 100; $55.00 per 500

....................... 13.00 per 100; 00.00 per 500

....................... 13.00 per 100; 00.00 per 500

Hudson State Savings





 





 





Battle Spring Poultry Farm & Hatchery, Hudson, Mlch.

~ l'ostpald price-s on 50 (‘llit-ks. 100 Chicks. 500 Chicks.

Single Comb White chllorns .................... $5.00 $ 9.00 $42.50

Barred Plymouth Itor-ks .......................... 0.00 11.00 52.51)

, S. l‘. Mottled Anconns ........................... 5.50 10.00 47.50

t S. 1‘. Rhoda Island Reds ...................... 0.00 11.00 52.50

Mixed Chicks .................................... .00 7.00 32.50

I’ullcts ready for shipment. Salt: arrival guaranteed. Write for our catalog or





order direct from this ad.

Give us a. trial and be com int-ct





 





Money





returned at once if we can not. till your order.





I.

DILIGENT HATCHERY 8; PULLET FARM, Holland. Mich. Harm J. Knoll. Owner.





 





 





White and Brown chlmms,

Barred Rocks and Rods ..

Assorted Mixed





WINSTROM POULTRY





EDUCED RPICES





IIIIXOd Chicks. 50. $1: 100, 57 straight.

from this all. with full remittance

Bctmr. Free. Catalog.





REDUCED P R I C E 5





Chicks NOW when they will do the best.

100% Live Delivcry Guarantmd.





Extra. Select. Sleek. $1 per 100 higher. 8 weeks; Pullcts, write for prices.

Reference. There 18 no risk.

FARM,





UNDEPMA





Heavy Mixed. 50. $5.50; 100, $1) straight.

and save time.

HUNDERMAN BROS.





 

 

 





 





   

 

 





Great Winter Layers. Pure—bred.



high quality flecks. Get these good



Postpaid Drlt'l‘.~ 25 50 100 500 1000

Ant-onus $3.75 $4.75 $ 0.00 $42.50 $ 80

....... .. 3.50 (2.25 12.00 57.50 110

....... 2.25 4.00 7.50 37.50 75

Bank





Get our Contest Circular.





BOX C-B. ZEELAND. MICHIGAN.





Chicks $7.00 per 100 and up. From good. pure-bred.

21‘5rlccs Effective Juno First.





   





hem y laying flocks.





100% Live Delivery Guaranteed. Postpaid prices 50 00 500 1000

English Vl'hite Leghorns. Brown Leghorns .................... $2.75 $4.50 3 0.00 $42.50 3 80

Barred Rm'ks. S. 8: II. (‘. Reds 23.50 0.25 12.00 57.50 110





Order right

IIau-Iu-d in Blue Ilcn Incubators. Nona

BOX 36. ZEELAND. MICHIGAN





 





We make no extravagant claims.





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Illiodo Island Reds

5% discount on orders for 600. 10%

County Savings Bank. Order right from this .



COLDWATER HATCHERY, 80X 53.





CHICKS COD.





SPECIAL OVERSUPPLY

CUT PRICES FOR

May and June Delivery





   

 





ENG. WHITE LEGHORNS—SO.‘

$5.00: l00. $9.00: $500. $40.00:

Barred Rocks. R. I. Reds. Anconas—SD. $6.00: I09.

SILDO: 500. $50.00. Husky. purebred stock. Post.-





paid 100% delivery guaranteed. Sand 10% with order.

pay balance on arrival. Ordcr now for immediate or

future shipment direct from ad.





WINTER EGG FARM, Box l0, Zeeland. Michigan.

CHICKS w. LEGHORN-BARREO ROCK

BLACK MINORCA-ANCONA

Official International ”Ego Content

Records up to 254 Eggs.





6c and Up for June





Before ordering your 1926 chicks send

for our CATALOG. Our LOW PRICES

will astonish you.



Over 20 years experience assures your





 





PINE BAY POULTRY FARM. Holland, Michigan.





81188 A CHICKS: Palms.





Big. husky chicks from heavy “you.

8. C. English White and Brown Leg-

horns. 00. Anconas. 90. Barred





 





mow down. Pay ten days before

chicks are shipped. 100% live doli‘cry.

Postuo paid. Catalog rm. THE U08

HATCHERY. R. 2~M. lodanl. Much.





 





 





 





 





We know you want GOOD CHICKS and





that is just what we will furnish you. from good. bred-to-lay. pure-bred

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



customers. 100% Live Delivery. Postpaid prices on

25 50 100 500 1000

“'hite. Brown or Buff Lezhorns ............................ $4.00 $0.00 $10 $50 $100

White Rocks. Buff and Barred Rocks . 4.25 0.50 1:! 00 120 .

........ 4.25 0.50 12 00 120





 





satisfaction.

bl‘nhcd Sent by 'PAROEL POST PREPAID.

flit; 11104 100% Live Dollvory iuara . ‘





Rocks and Beds. 120. Assorted. 7c. No‘





Ref” Branch





 





r

‘Tarzrcc‘ Strain





Prices

For JUNE





’ WHITE LEC—HORNS



" P1115- BAPRLDF‘C’CKS :

Sinq|r CombéRoseComb

”MOE ISLAND REDS





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Star Matinus. 100 500

Tancred S. (J. White Lsghorns ........ ..311 $50.00

Barred. Rocks ...................... 13 60.00

S. (Y. and R. (1. Rhode Island Reds 13 60.00



Utility Mating



English S. (f. \Vhite Leghorns ............ $ 9 $42.50

Barred Rocks ........................... 11 52.50

S. (I. and It. (I. Rhode Island Reds.....11 $2.50

Mixed (‘hlcks (Good cllickswno culls) 8 cents each.





up to 500. On order.» of Ir» than 100. and 250 to

total price. Send for catalog and special prices on

1,000 and ovcr.



8 and to weeks’ old pullers at attractive prion.



Utility listings.



Read This Barred Rock Record:

lmkoviow Poultry Farm. Dear Sirs: The Barred

Rock chicks I bought of you last spring up the

best I ever had for egg production and (or market.

as they weigh 0 to 8 pounds. My pullets started '

to lay at 5% months old and by January were -‘

going 70% daily. John. A. Houhaus. '

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

We guarantee live dcliiery and good condition.





LAKEVIEW POULTRY FARM,





8. R. O. BOX 6. Holllnl. “I'll.

'TRY a Michigan Farmer



Classified Liner. They

bring results. _ ‘
£5.01:er nd Tom'B rr W.L '1: H T B I '



....:.. c. are. ‘3: at“. downgrading"

Whites—Sheppard’s Annular-Perk 'e Barred Roche

if; lfyo want‘pure bred chicks that 'are bred ' hat bed“ h d

- shipped right. that groge‘aond will make you :1:er git ou‘rfige: Iglw

prices ca 01 re . . ‘ "

Flock- are carefull culled {neg dozeloped on free range. All chicks

. are hand icked an inspected, no cripples or w Every one





- , healthy.

. 100% Live Delivery—Postage Paid





Satiafaetion Guaranteed. Write New. White Leghorn and Barred

Rock pulleta after May 1, at low prices. ‘





Knoll’a Hatchery, R. R. l2, Box '81., Holland, Mich.





 





 

 





 

 

 

   

   

   

 





CHICKEN MAKES own VITA.





the track. If they m... track right

.- MIN c. . .





close to the door they naturally walk

upWard and soon see the opening near

the breeder stove. It is just like plac-

ing a little A—shaped brood coop in

front of the trapdoor. They can walk

dOWn on either side right close to the





 





IT looks as if the chicken makes. its



own vitamin C or the vitamin which,

prevents scurvy in guinea pigs and

humans. according to an investigation





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Extra Quality Egg-Brett 'GIIIGKS

it'll; 0523:: Reduced Prices 3.2.5020:





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

modern BIS-acre poultry farm. from flecks specially culled and

mated under our personal supervision. Barron English and Ho!—

lywood strain 5. C. White Leghorns. Sheppard's Anconas, direct





from Sheppard Farm. Shipped postpaid. 100% live delivery

guaranteed. Order now for June 8-15 delivery at following prices:





 





 





White and Brown Le horns. Anconae 50 too 5 l000

Selected Mating . no. ............................................ $4.50 8 8.00 $35.00 8 65

Extra Selected Mating ........... ‘ ............... 5.50 l0.00 45.00 05

Barred Rocks ................................................... 6.50 l2.00 55.00 ”0

Mixed chicks or broilers .............................. . .......... 3.50 7.00 35.00 70





Prices After June Is, to less. , ,

TOWN LINE POULTRY FARM. “The Perlonal Service Hatchery," Iceland. Mich" R. l. Box II.





 





building and there is nothing to hud-

dle under.



For the first few days it is best to

keep the chicks near the front of a

colony house. A roll of inch mesh

wire about forty feet long is handy for

making a small yard. Tack the wire

to each end of the front and wait

out in a circle over the grass. When

the chicks learn to run in and out of

the broader house the wire can be re-

moved. It is best to only raise one

sideof the wire when the‘chicks first

have free range. Then you have a

the livers and kidneys of these cock- small fenced range to help in gather-





carried .on at ‘the Purdue University

Agricultural Experiment Station.



It appears that chickens do not

have scurvy and can thrive for long

periods on feeds that do not have the

scurvy preventing Xvitamin. Mature.

cockerels were given a ration contain-

ing none of this vitamin for over three

months. Their livers and kidneys were

then fed in small amounts to guinea

pigs suffering from scurvy brought on

by a lack of the vitamin-preventing

scurvy. In about two weeks’ time the

guinea pigs were cured of scurvy by





 





 





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





a





Heavy Winter Laying Stock Produced by

Michigan’s Old Reliable Hatchery





Pioneer Breeders and Hatchers, operating the best Hatchery in the state.

Pure-bred TOM BARRON and AMERICAN WHITE LEGHORNS, Anconas.

Barred Rocks, Rhodc Islend Reds. Strong, well hatched Chicke' from Ho an~

izcd free range stock. By Insured Parcel Post Prepaid to your door" 100% We

Delivery Guaranteed. 17 years "pcrience in the business and giving absolute

Iatisfaction to thousands.





Special Mid-Season Bargain Offer.





Baby Chicks in assorted lots at $75. in 1000 lots. or $8.00 per 100. Quality of stock and live delivery

guaranteed. Write or order at once to get the benefit of this low price.





Valuable Illustrated Catalog Free

Holland, Michigan





Holland Hatchery & Poultry Farm, R-7-C,





YOU KNOW dill“...





That Strain + Vigor + Method, Means Sure Success





 





 





We Pay Postage. per 25 50 100 500

Large T pe W. Leghorns $4.50 $8.50 $16.00 $70.00

Barred ocks 2.25 ngg 112.88 $2.88

White W andottes .50 . . .

CHICKS Rhode Is and Reds 4.00 7.75 14.50 68.50





Order your chicks from a practical poultry farm, operating 365 days'in the

year and backed. by twenty years experience in breeding and pro ific egg

production. Visit our plant at any time. We are at your serv1ce.





Reference, First National Bank, Ypsilanti, Mich.

YPSIFIELD EGG FARM HATCHERY, YPSILANTI, MICH.





Chicks and Eggs at Reduced Prices





One of the founders of the chick industry 22 years in business. An old reliable Hatchery which has

been putting out guaranteed ('liil‘ks for years. Our flocks are the result of careful breeding and culling over

along period. When seen our chicks recommend themselves. Dr. L. E. Hensley Egg Basket strain Buii'

Leglmrns. White Leghorns. Headed by males 275-303 egg record breeding. Barred Rooks headed. by E. B.

Thompson’s males. It. 1. Beds headed by Whittaker-‘5 males. Bun' and White Leghorns: pullets after June

lst. Write for catalogue.





 





 





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

wTested Chix. I Can ship

——at once. Rush your order.





0 u r P" re B lo 0 ——At reduced prices.





. ' I Barred and White Rocks, Reds, Bl. Minorcas. 14c each. White and Silver Wyandottee.

Orpingtons, 15c. White and Black Langshans. Light Brahmasn 18c. White. Brown,

0 But! Leghorns. Heavy Broilers, 110. Sheppard's Ant-ones. 12c. Light Broilers, 80. May





 





chix, 61.00 per 100 less. June chix. $2.00 less. Add 35c extra if less than 100 wanted.

Hatching eggs. Bank reference. Free catalog of 20 varieties.





BECKMAN HATCHERY, 26‘ LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.





 





 

 





Chicks that are lively and healthy from pure-bred carefully se—

lected stock. One-fifth down books order. Good poultry iudxel

say our flocks are unusually good. Order today. Last year we

were not able to supply the demand. Order early this year.

Pure-bred. carefully selected, l00% live delivery.





Prices on: (prepaid) 50 mo 500 1000 Rat: Farmer'- Jn Mechanic'l Banl. an.

Bartl'edn stocks ........ $0335 ”$030 35;.7530 sugar city.



. e ............. . . . .



White R0.ek| .......... 6.75 13.00 62.00 mm WASHTENAW HATCHERY,

Wh. Wyandotiel ....... 6.75





l3.00 62.00 i22.00

VIII. 0. Br. Leghorn: I0.00 .. .. Geddes Road





Mixed chicks. sa.00"0e'r I00. Ann Arbor, Michigan





YEAR: OF EXPERIENCE





REDUCED M P i008 Our 15 years of experience in breeding and

' ay 1' hatching qualifies us as DEAN in the Poultry

Industry. We own and operate a Real Poultry Farm, not merely a Hatchery. Our Free

Catalog will give you full information. We have specialized in White Leghorns for

m’any years. '





 





 





 





 





 





 





100% Live Delivery (Juan—Postpaid prices 25 50 100 500 1000

White Leghorns. Special Extra Quality ........ $3.50 86.50 312.00 357.50 3110.00

1, )9: Barred Rocks. Reds. Anconas ................ 375 1.00 13.00 62.50 120.00





White a Bus Rocks. wane Wyandome ....... 4325 8.00 15.00 72.50





140.00

8 root from this ad. in full confidence.





DEAN FARM AND





   

 





erels which had received none of the ing the chicks near the colony houses

scurvy-preventing vitamin, thus indi- if a. sudden storm arrives.



eating that the vitamin was manufac- Keep sand in front 0f the 3811 (1001‘

tured by some means in the body of of the coal burning brooder and do not

the chicken. ’ allow straw litter to become packed

This suggests that the chicken can around the stove by the scratChing Of

. make this vitamin from sources not the chicks. Empty the ashes carefully

available to the guinea pig or to a per— to avoid dropping hot ash in the litter.

son and that the lack of this vitamin If any coals are dropped, clean them

in the diet of the chicken apparently up carefully and pour a. “we water

doesno damage. In practical poultry from the drinking fountain around the

feeding, therefore, little attention need SPOt- There is always some fire risk

be paid to supplying the vitamin which where there is fire. It pays to use the

prevents scurvy, although other vita- greatest 0f care in managing a. med'

mins are-.. absolutely necessary and er stove 0f any kind.



must be provided by the feeds given.





 





 





GOOD BROOD COOPS.

PERMANENT POULTRY HOUSES. '





 





 





CHICKS in brood coops are often

lost when the coops are turned

over during wind and rain stroms. Lit-

tle chicks are soon drowned when

beaten to the ground by heavy rain.

Drive a strong stake at the end of

each A-shaped brood coop to act as an

anchor. Place a heavy stone on the

roof of each shed-roof type brood coop

to keep the top from blowing off.

Brood coops with wooden floors are

the safest during heavy rain storms

unless they are situated on soil where

the rain cannot wash under the coops

and drown the chicks. A mother hen

cannot protect her chicks from a

stream 'of cold water seeping across

the floor of a brood coop. They are

soon soaked and chilled.





THE Illinois Egg Laying Contest at

Murphysboro, Illinois, was totally

destroyed by the cyclone which swept

through that region and the only les-

son poultrymen can learn from the

loss is the desirability of carrying ad-

equate storm insurance on all poultry

buildings.

No type of poultry buildings can

stand such a storm. The concrete

floor in one of the Murphysboro build-

ings was broken and twisted. Boards

were scattered everywhere and nearly

all the birds were killed. It was esti-

mated that possibly a dozen hens es-

caped alive.

But we have a type of moderately

severe Windstorm which frequently





visits Michigan and causes loss to Colony houses can be strengthened

poultrymen. These losses can usually by driving a two-by-four deep in the

be prevented. Permanent poultry soil at each corner and spiking it to





houses should have eight-inch bolts set

at intervals in the concrete walls.

Then bolt down the sills and the build-

ing will be prevented from shifting

during any ordinary Windstorm.





the building. But when the wind blows

hard and the sky is black, nothing can

take the place of the cyclone insur-

ance policy which can give a poultry-

man hope of another start, no matter

how far the buildings travel.





 





 





CHICK BROODING EQUIPMENT.





 





 





BROODY HENS NEED CARE.





 





OLD magazines with large pages are

fine for starting the young chicks. IN a flock of the American breeds the

Lay a couple of magazines spread out broody hen problem requires atten-

near the brooder deflector. Every tion. If the hens are under-fed and

time you feed the chicks turn over a given insufficient water while broody,

new page and give them a clean sur— their strength is undermined. At some

face from which to eat the starting time in the spring most of the hens

mash. When the papers are encrusted may be broody once or twice. If every

with dirt they should be burned. It member of the flock is given a. period

is surprising how much dirt can be of short rations in turn, it is easy to

taken from a. brooder house on those see What happens to the summer egg

papers or magazines. The more the records.

newly hatched chicks eat in a clean I think it pays to remove the broody

place, the less the chance of picking hens the first night they are found on

up dirt and unclean feed which may the nests. Then the broody instinct

kill them. . seems only half developed and three

When chicks are first turned out of or four days in the crates will break

the colony house they need a track them up. They can be freed at sun-

running down at right angles from the down on the third or fourth day and

trapdoor. Then they can go directly all that return to the nests can be

to the ground without walking down locked, up again.

a long track. When. they wish to re - During the time in the broody coops

turn to the house they will not go out give the .hens a small hopper of lay-

to the end of a long track and walk ing mashu Keep fresh water before

up. They are apt to go close to the them at all times. Give them plenty





 





' M. “ Oak 3. inss Bank. Order di

"ATO ERY. Ball 2|. BIRMINGHAM. MICHIGAN. Member I. B. C. A. and Mich. B. c. A.

‘ V >





house” and try to jump up or huddle of grain.
' that the pigs





M‘ILK PRICE DETERMINATION.

. ,.

' Kindly advise how the price of milk





 





" for the Detroit market is determined.





—Reader. . .

' The. price of milk in the Detroit

market is not based upon the cost of

production. According to the plan of

selling now in use in this market the

distributor pays, say, $3.00 per cwt.

for all the milk he uses as fluid milk

{that is, whole milk sales). The price

for all other milk received from regu-

lar producers in excoss of fluid milk

sales is paid for on the basis of the

butter market. The exact method of

figuring this is to get the average price

of ninety-twosome butter on the New

York market for the month, multiply

by 3.5 and add twenty per cent. This

gives the value of manufacturing milk

testing 3.5. For milk testing above or

below 3.5 add or deduct four cents a

point above or below.



The average price which a producer

receives for his milk, then, does not

depend upon cost of production; but

upon the amount of milk coming into

the market, the sales as fluid milk,

and the price of button—J. T. H.





a





 





GOITER'TROUBLES LIVE STOCK.





l





 





HAT goiter is troubling live stock



in the Upper Peninsula is the re—

port of Dr. F. K. Hanson, assistant

state veterinarian at Marquette. This

is indicated by calves born with large

necks or throat swellings, and pigs

born hairless and often dead. This

condition, as in the case of human

beings, results from the lack of iodine

in the food and water supply.



The condition is by no means hope-

less, however, says Dr. Hansen. In

calves the goiterous condition can be

remedied by a dose of ten grains of





potassium iodide twice each day in the?





feed. Twenty-four days’ treatment

ought to be enough. The swelling

ought also to be painted thrice Weekly

with tincture of iodine, the treatment

to be discontinued when the swelling

disappears. Surgery may also be

called in.



In pigs the sows must be fed potas-

sium iodide before farmwing-time for

one month. The dose here is from

seven to fifteen grains for a medium-

sized sow. It is fed twice daily in the

regular feed. It is best to have one

ounce of potassium iodide put up in

eight ounces of water and to make

this amount last for one month’s treat-

ment. This works out one teaspoon-

ful per dose—Chase.





 





FEEDING BUTTERMILK OR OFFAL.





 





ITHER buttermilk or offal from a





‘ butcher shop or abbatoir ‘may be.





safely fed to hogs. In feeding both

buttermilk and offal the pigs are get-

ting a ration decidedly rich in protein

which is no doubt the cause of the

trouble.



While hogs may be safely fed on

either buttermilk or oxal alone, when

proper precautions are taken, acom-

bination of the two gives much more

protein than is desirable. For best

results one or the other should be

eliminated and some carbonaceous

grain, such as corn or barley fed to

these hogs along with the buttermilk

or offal. '



If this buttermilk is a product of

your own farm it would perhaps be

desirable for you to purchase enough

hogs to consume both the buttermilk

and the offal and still eat some car-

bonaceous grain to balance their ra-

tion.



’Where offal from a butcher shop

or abbatoir is being fed it is necessary

be vaccinated against

hog cholera, as an outbreak of this





;. 9.2".

“a M





trouble will occur sooner or later

where this offal is being fed—George

A. Brown,

bandry, M. S. C.





A PHENOMENAL RECORD.





 





OR the past years the Village

Farm, owned

and now under the management of

R. B. 'Cofiey, has been making some

good records in the Holstein world,

both in the seven-day and the yearly

Work, but they now have a cow that





will call the attention of the best:

Geeneva.





Poline De Kol 2nd, No. 506677. age"





breeders of Holstein cows.





six years, freshened December 18,

1924. She was on seven-day test, mak-

ing a good record: Butter, 25.86;

milk 616.



She has for the first four months of

her lactation period produced 7,654

pounds of milk and 411 pounds of but-

ter, an average of over 100 pounds of

butter per month, and almost 2,000

pounds of milk, or 1,000 quarts of milk.

This is as much milk as is required





for the city of Howell for one day.—





SANILAC COWS MAKE GOOD

SHOWING.





 





SSOCIATION number one of San-





‘ ilac county has started a new:





year with M. B. Beebe as tester,

and many old members continuing the





work. Thirty-one herds containing 243 :

cow's are being tested. Eight members .





are weighing milk. Ralph Wood's

pure-bred Holstein herd was high, with

an average monthly production of

1,304 pounds of niilk and 50.5 pounds

of fat. The high cow was also in this

herd. She is a three-year-old and gave





2,079 pounds of milk and eighty‘one-





opunds of aft. Roger Garbutt had

high milk cow with 2,196 pounds of

milk and sixty-eight pounds of fat.





HAS HIGH HERD FOR FOURTH

TIME.





 





N the South Van Buren Cow Test-





ing Association, there were 247

cows on test for April. Of these

twenty-eight produced over forty.





pounds of fat, ten gave over fifty

pounds, while thirty-two produced ov-





er 1,000 pounds of milk. The high cOWj

was owned by R. J. Samson, of Matta-'





wan. She gave 67.21 pounds of fat.

M. Wilkinson, of Dowagiac, won high

herd for the fourth consecutive time

with his six pure-bred Holsteins, show-

ing an average production of 1,226

pounds. of milk and 42.26 pounds of

fat. James Osborn, of the same place,

was only a few points below with his

pure—bred and grade Guernseys.



Farmers in this district certainly

are taking advantage of the marl pits

which have been opened tip—R. Hy-

man.





OLEO RESOLUTION NOT SUP-

PORTED.





 





, HILE much attention was being

given to agriculture at the meet-

ing of the United States Cham—



ber of Commerce, the manufacturers

of food substitutes were not idle. The

oleomargarine interests got the follow-

ing resolution introduced:



“Whereas. beef fat, pork fat, cotton-

seed oil, peanut oil, cocoanut oil, milk,

salt and butter are wholesome and nu-

tritious foodstuffs which are eaten in

one form or another every day; and,



Whereas, the combination of one or

more of these fats or oils with milk

in imitation or semblance of butter is

known as oleomargarine; and,



Whereas, there are many poor peo—

ple who are not able to buy a more

expensive palatable spread for their

bread than oleomargarine; and,



Whereas, there are about $50,000,000

invested in this industry which pro-

duces about 250,000,000 pounds of oleo-

margarine per annum.



Resolved, that the chamber of com-





merce of the United States deprecates ~





the passage of laws and the efforts to

pass laws prohibiting the manufacture

and sale of oleomargarine, prohibiting

the use of either one or more of the

wholesome foodstuffs used in the man-

ufacture of it, taxing it, and taxing

merchants who buy and sell it.”

Washington representatives of the

farm organizations did excellent work

for the farmers in their fight against

this resolution which failed to receive

the support of many business men

who see the need of dealing fairly and

honestly with the farming industry.





 





Professor of Animal Hus-_





by M. J. McPherson, '.





Road,





oreaux

and it





old.





 





5’71. Neal lama





Sale will be held

on Lamoreaux Stock

Farm, which is lo-

cated 4 miles North

of Grand Rapids.

Michigan,

and one-half

mile west of

stock Park, on Lam-





is only ten

minutes

Street Car Line.





Friday, June 5,





four-year-old.





25-lb. four-year-old daughter





a..





Proven

on Canal

Com— on sale day.

Boulevard,





walk from





STARTING





Note These Wonderful Offerings





‘ The milking animals of the herd, in cow testing work, averaged



about 12,000 lbs. of milk, and 400 lbs. of fat per cow; which is 5,000

lbs. more milk than the average C. T. A. cow in Michigan, and 3%

times as much as the average dairy cow in Michigan.

lbs. of milk as a four—year-old, and many others gave from 12,000 to

15,000 lbs. of milk. Many have A. R. 0. Records, including a 27-133.

four-year-old with 725 lbs. of milk, that also made 24 lbs. as a 2-year.

4 daughters of Glen Alex King De K01, who is a son of a 43-lb.

21 daughters of the Senior Herd Sire, who won First

Prize at the West Michigan State Fair, and also many others with

noted Michigan blood lines.



THIS HERD IS FAR ABOVE THE AVERAGE IN PRODUCTION,

TYPE, and BREEDING, and they will be in fine condition On sale day.



W. R. Harper & Sons, of Middleville, Michigan, because of being

over-stocked will sell 9 head in this sale, including a 29.75—lb. cow, a

of their famous sire, Veeman Pontiac

Lake Side Lad, two daughters of Lenawee Pontiac Calamity Lad, who

is a 32—“). bull, one from a 31.91-lb. 4-yr.-old daughter of a 30-lb. cow,

and the other from a 25-lb. Michigan Champion two—year-old.



Also three bulls from 31-11). and 32-lb. dams.



John C. Buth, Grand Rapids, Mich.‘, wi" sell a son of his 23 times

first prize winner, who made 28 lbs. as a four-year-old, he by the

famous show son of a four time 30-lb. cow. Also a grandson of Carna-

tion King Sylvia, from a 26—lb. dam, with nearly 19,000 lbs. of milk

C. T. A. work.



Attend the National Meeting. and sale, and remain over for this

sale the following day—the animals will be of extreme quality—4n fine

condition, and you will be able to ship with your purchases at the

National Sale.





J. Neal Lamoreaux, Comst-ock Park, Mich.





R. Austin Backus, Mexico. N. Y., sales manager.

Col. Geo. W. Baxter, Elmira, N. Y., Auctioneer.





Write for descriptiv





a...

50 Registered Holstein Cattle





LOCATION Ono of Michigan's

Greatest Bred

Herds





producers.—

proven show ring .wln‘

hers—1n show. condition





.Farm is being platted

for building lots—every

animal must go—at

your own price.





_,, .





awn Sale;





HEALTH





The herd is Fully

Accredited for Tu-

berculosis, and clean

and healthy in every

respect.





1925





at 11 1.1M.





1 gave 17,500





e folder and catalog.





 





 





 





of a 25.000-lb. cow.





BAYLISS





13 cows. 9

heifers bred





Lil“? lbs butter in a ycar.

cow. a 20.000417. cow.





corner Superior and Jackson Sta,





GRIFFIN





HOLSTEIN DISPERSAL





Thursday, June 11, 1925





Sale at Farm 5 miles west, 1 mile northeast Richland Center at 11:00 o'clock





3O HEAD





Included in this sale is a. 23-lb. row. a 3l—lb.

of 600 to 1,066-lb. yearly record cows with yearly milk records up to 20,000, 22,000. 25,000 and 212.000 lbs.

There are 13 daughters of Maplecrest Champion Boy whose first four dams averaged 1.123 lbs. butter in a.

’year. Seldom a sale with as much high priced backing.

Space forbids telling more. but send for catalog.

State and Federally tested. Usual retest privilege.





Hourly bus service from Toledo bus station,

from a. distance met at Sylvania,





Sylvania, Ohio





bred heifers. l-yr. bull. 7 bull calms. Cows and.

to Goa Ormsby Beauty, whose 5 neon-st dams average

Bull calves by same sire.



Daughters and granddaughters





The yearling bull is by "(‘hampiou" and out





to Sylvania,. Portia





Ohio Holstein-Friesian Association





1. D. Hadley, Field Sen, Mgr.





Lewis Ryan, Auct.





10509 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio





Howard Barker, Pedigrees





 





BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY





 





900 lbs. fat;





rand sec

Evart. M ioh.





males

Adams:





FOR SALE- Reg. Guernsey Bull Calf

S'Irc by Lone Pine Ranger whose dam has an A. R. 6 Miles northeast of How 1" C. ' .

record of 17.6442 lbs. Milk. 936.0 lbs. Fat. No Fe- 3 d it)” Mmh

for Sale. .

Gilmore Brothers,





Wallinwood Guernseys





Young bulls Ffrom A.





Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Twelve Davs before date of publication





For Sale. Registered Guernsey Bull





four years old. full brother to

Red Rose, World’s Champion cow in ("lass

also full brother to Missaukeo Sally.

who rm-cntly sold for $5,000.

a. bull with size and production back of him,

this fellow.





Norman's Missaukee

“C." with





 





If you are lookim.r for}

come

VERN LAMBERT.. R. 4.





 





Williaml, North





Mich.





Write .

Camden,





It. cows for sale.

W. WALLIN. lenicon. Mich.





 





Rose Breeding.





For Sale





Reg. Guernsey Cows, Bulls and

Bull Calves. A. It. Record May

JOHN EBELS, R. 2. Holland, Mich.





 





pital.





At (5 yr.





At. 5 yr.





Dept.,C,





 





36.7 Lbs. Butter in

l4l.75 Lbs. Butter in

l033.I2 Lbs. Butler in 305 Days.

Those are records recently complcted by Kal-

amazoo Houwtje Fobes DeKol. the great pro—

ducing cow owned by Kalamazoo State Hos-





Kalamazoo Houwtje Fobes

At 7 yr. 11 mo. of age

Butter 7 (18. 36.7; BIilk 750.8





mo..

Butter 7 da. 32.71: Milk 737.1

Butter 305 da. 1033.12: Milk 23882.8





mo.:

Bother 7 da. 25.56: Milk 537.9

Butter 3G5 da. 942.20; Milk 21426.4

The Kalamazoo State Hospital herd of more

than 100 animals is headed by King Pontiac

Burke Alcartra. a wonderful individual and

a. son of King of the

double century sire.

Send for our list of bulls for sale.





Bureau of Animal Industry,





7 Days.

30 Days.





Deliol 371507





Pontaics. the only





Lansing, Michigan





 





 





 





 





: Also many other bunches.





 





Complete Dispersment





SALE

An Accredited Holstein Frie-

sian Herd, 4 years





34-‘Cows and Heifers-34

June 2, 1 925

At Ray W. Switzer Farm,





 





On M 46

dairy calves. 7 weeks old.





HOLSIEIN 0r GUERNSEY $20 each. crated for ship-





ment. Edoewood Dairy Farms. Whitewater. Wis.





Hereford Steers





 





5h Wt. Around 950 lbs. (30 Wt. Around 850 lbs.

GI: Wt. Around 740 lbs. 80 Wt. Around 650 lbs.

1422 WI. Around 000 lbs. 47 Wt. Around 550 lbs.





52 Wt. Around 500 lbs. 58 Wt. Around 450 lbs.

Deep reds. dehorned. flood

stocker order. Real quality Herefords are usually

market toppers when finished. Will sell your choice

from any bunch. VAN B. BALDWIN. Eldon. Wa-

pello 00.. Iowa.





 





' ‘ ° Our bulls of sonic!»

Fmanual ng Jerseys able age are all sold.

but we have a few bull calves of excellent breeding.

sued by our great herd sire. Financial King Sonar

10 .





SEY FARM. Goldwater. Mich.





 





15 Gown. 4 bulls from R. of M. Cows. Chance Go's:



select from bad of 70. Some fresh. own-e bid



for fall freshening. Colon C. Lillie. Cooperevllle. Mich. :

Bulls ready for





Jersey 8 F 01' Sill? also a row females. Au rm





ll. of M. dune. Accredited herd. MI “or ‘

R. D. No. 4. Howell. Mich. 8n ‘ P "





Additional Stock Ads. on Page 72!





 

 





 





   





 





 





 





Our prices are reasonable. GOLDWATER l-ER- I
GRAIN QUOTATIONS





Tuesday, May 26.

Wheat. .





 





Detroit—No. 1 red $1.93; No. 2 red

:13? No. 2 white $1.92; No. 2 mixed





Chicago—July $1.63%@1.63 ; Se

tember at $1.57IA@1.57%; Dzécembepr

$1.58%@1.59.



Toledo—Wheat $1.93@1.94.



c





orn.

Detroit.-——No. 3 yellow $1.25; No. 4

yellow $1.20.





tember $1.18%@1.18%; December at

96%@97c.





Oats.

Detroit—No. 2 white 53350; No. 3

at 50%c.

Chicago—July 47%c; September at

473/30; December 48%c.

Rye.

Detroit.—-No. 2, $1.22.

Chicago—July $1.18@1.181/z; Sep-

tember $11695; December $11955.

Toledo—$1.19.

Beans.

Detroit—Immediate and

shipment $5.40@5.55 per cwt.

Chicago—Navy, fancy $5.90@6; red

kidneys $9.7'5@10.

pea $6.15@6.25;





prompt





New York—Choice

red kidneys $9.50@10.





Barley.

Detroit—Malting 97c; feeding 93c.

Buckwheat.



Detroit.~—$1.95@2.

Seeds.





Detroit—Prime red clover cash at



$15.50; alsike $12.50; timothy $3.30.

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 $36@37; standard

middlings at $38; fine middlings $42;

cracked corn $55; coarse cornmeal at

$43; chop $35.





Apples.





Chicago prices on apples: Northern

Spies $10@11 bbl; Starks at $6.50@7;





$9.50@10.50.

WHEAT





Wheat prices gained ground during

the last week. Bullish winter wheat

crop news coupled with tightness in

the May delivery were the main sin-

ews of strength. Winter wheat pros-_

pects show slight deterioration since

May 1, due to chinch bugs, Hessian fly

and dry and cold weather. The acre-

age of winter wheat in 21 countries

is estimated at 127,046,000 acres as

against 129,075,000 acres last year.

The visible supply of wheat in this

country and Canada and stocks on

ocean passage all showed decreases at

the beginning of the week. Continent-

al countries are absorbing large

amounts of Wheat each week. Statis-

tically, old crop wheat is in a strong

position. Prospects for the new world

crop are not well defined as yet, the

poor outlook for winter wheat in the

United States and the absence of the

usual small exportable surplus in India

being the chief unfavorable features.





RYE





Rye prices are holding within a

narrow range. Export sales are being

made, the visible supply continues to

shrink and indications are for a. close

cleanup before the new rye harvest

starts. On the other hand, holders of

rye appear willing to clean up their

stocks at prevailing prices. Receipts

at the leading markets were rather

heavy in the last month but have fall-



._ en off sharply again.





CORN





Corn prices have kept within an ex-

tremely narrow range in the last

week. Primary receipts have increas-

ed and the after-planting run is prob-

ably starting. Demand broadens spas-

modically, the visible shows good de-

creases each week and the June move-

ment is expected to be smaller than



. usual. The possibility of summer

.‘ scarcity tends to sustain speculative

. support. Weather conditions have not

39, been friendly to the new crop.





OATS





Oats prices have shown a sidewise

movement similar to corn. Export

7 sales are reported nearly every day

.and stocks are gradually being reduc-





Chicago—July $1.18%@1.18%; Sep-I





Ben Davis $5.50@7; Willow Twigs at.





ed in this,country, but they are still

of ample size so that buyers have not

been obliged to bid up to obtain sup-





plies.





SEEDS





The seed market is neglected with

Spring conditions

generally are satisfactory, but unless

rains are had shOrtly reports of poor





trading very light.





crop condition can be expected.





FEEDS





market.

selling at a

prompt prices.





BEANS,





The bean market is strong with

$5.65@5.70 per 100 pounds quoted for

C. P. whites, f. o. b. Michigan ship-





ping points.





eyar.

by the Pacific Coast interests





igan bought at higher prices.





healthy basis or not.





HAY





Offerings of hay were moderate last

week but fully equal to the demand.

Prices were unchanged although an

easier undertone was apparent as buy-

chiefly on a hand-to-

mouth basis. Pastures and forage were

reported in good condition in most sec-

tions although rain is needed in the





ing continued





upper Mississippi valley.





POULTRY AND EGGS





Egg prices were generally

scarce and tending higher.

been considerably less





same time a year ago.





cellaneous 30c; dirties 28%c;





 





Prices for immediate shipment feeds

are steady after the recént advances.

The higher prices have reduced the

demand from feeders and dairymen,

but a light production sustains the

Deferred shipment feeds are

sharp discount under





Growers are being paid

Some dealers report a fair de-



. mand, but most of the wholesale groc—

ers are still buying ina hand-to-mouth

manner, and canners are doing little.

Many of the latter are said to be

sotcked up with finished product.

Stocks of beans in theh state are be-

lieved to be about the same as last

Some observers believe the ad-

vance is fictitious and brought abolut

w 0

have large holdings of beans in Mich-

It will

probably take a little while longer to

determine whether the market is on a





steady

last week with strictly fancy stock

Receipts

are falling ed as is usual at this sea-

son, and since the first'of May have



than in the

Eggs are still

moving into storage although the ex-

cess over a year ago, particularly in

the four large markets, is narrowing.



Chicago—Eggs, extras 36@37c; mis-

checks





 





28%c; fresh firsts 30%@31c; ordinary.

firsts 29 c. Live poultry, hens 24c;

broilers 4 c; roosters 14c_;’ducks.220;

geese 13c; turkeys 280. i , .

Detroit—Eggs, fresh candied and

broilers 50@52c; heavy hens 28c;'

light hens 25 26c; roosters 17@18¢;~

geese 1,5c; due s 30c; turkeys 25c.





1y lower than foreign levels and, in





possibility of a further decline does

not appear very strong. - ~





- HORSES ‘ _

.Good" draft horses are seiling well





within a range of $225 to $275 wi

attractive .premiums for matche





Butter prices eased off last week.

The trade is nervous because of the





nearness of the new season. Receipts teams. Wagon horses W8i8h1n8 1.400

at‘ the four leading markets last week to 1.500 1301111518 are bringing $125 to

were more than .15 per cent larger $175. There is no dependable outlet





than in the preceding week. Consump-

tion demand for butter is excellent.

Prices are not as low as dealers would

like. 92-score creamery, Chicago at

4055c; New York 41c. In Detroit fresh.

creamery in tubs sold for 38@41c. "*





CHEESE





The cheese market was strong at

slightly higher prices last week. Trad-

ing is active although in small lots for

immediate consumption. Receipts

have not been large during the past

few weeks and there is little prospect

of any immediate heavy increase.





POTATOES





The potato market was steady last

week. New potatoes already make up

nearly half the total supply and ar-

rivals continue to increase. Northern

round whites, U. S. No. 1, are quoted

at $1.05@1.25 per 100 pounds in the

Chicago carlot market. Florida Spauld-

ing Rose, U. S. No. 1, new stock were

held at $7 per barrel.





APPLES





Apple prices are strong with a high-

er market generally predicted before

June. Reductions in storage stocks

during April were large and the hold-

ings on May 1 were only about half





blemished horses of any kind:-





GRAND RAPIDS





Summery Weather late last week

stimulated plant growth in western

Michigan, increasing the supply of

.most vegetables and causing some

easement in prices. Quotations on the

Grand Rapids markets early this week

were: Asparagus $1.50 dozen bunch-

es; radishes 15@25c dozen bunches;

green onions 15@20c dozen bunches;

rhubarb 75c@$1 bu; old potatoes 40

@50c bu; .leaf lettuce 8@10c a pound;

wheat $1.65 bu; beans $5 th; poul-

try, fowls 18@23c; broilers 30@40¢;

pork 160; beef 8@12c; lambs 24@‘30c;

mutton 12@14c; veal 10@13c; eggs

29@300; butter-fat 42@43c a pound.





DETROIT CITY MARKET





Offerings were libera‘l with the

amount of spinachand greens running

heavier. Asparagus was picked up

fast. Mustard and turnip tops were

easy sellers. First quality radishes

had ready sale, while green onions

iropped a little in price. The demand

for lettuce was a little 0 . Rhubarb

was in lighter demand. Potatoes were

)nly moderate sellers. There was a

limited demand for Ben Davis apples.

With the weather getting warmer, the

demand for flowers and plants picked





as large as on the same date a year 111) same; The offerings of ultry

ago. Midwestern Ben Davis apples are and eggs were small and the emand

quoted at $5@5.50 per barrel. fair.





Apples, $1.25@2.50 bu; asparagus,

No. 1, $1.75@2 dozen ’bunches; beets,

round $1.25@1.50 bu; cabbage 75c@

$1 bu; carrots $1 @150 bu; dandelions

50@75c bu; horseradish, No. 1, $1.75

@250 bu; leeks 50c@$1 dozen bunch-

es; onion sets $3 bu; green onions 40

@60c dozen bunches; set onions 65@

75c dozen bunches; 'root parsley 656

75c bu; curly parsley 40c dozen bunch-

es; parsnips $1@1.25 bu; potatoes,

No. 1, 65@70c bu; radishes, outdoor

40@60c dozen bunches; rhubarb, out-

door 40@50c dozen bunches; turnip

tops $1.25@1.50 bu ;mustard $1691.50

bu; butter 50@65c lb; spinach 750@$1





WOOL





Some wool buyers are willing to take

hold at current quotations and a few

large lots have changed hands. These

include some contracts for new clip

western wools. Mills report a small

increase in re—orders for goods in spite

of the disposition of some buyers to

wait for lower prices for cloth as a re-

sult of the decline in wool. While

there is a. difference of opinion as to

whether prices can be maintained

when the pressure of the new clip





 





I Live Stock Market Service J





bu; pansies 75c@$1 fiat; celery lants

$1@1.25 flat; cabbage plants $1531.25

flat; tomato plants $1@1.25 flat; ger-

aniums $2.40 dozen; pepper plants $1

@125 flat; eggs, wholesale 33@35c;

retail 35@400; hens, wholesale 29@





 





Tuesday, May 26.





BUFFALO

Hogs.



Receipts 4,180. Hogs closing slow.

Heavy 3125061280; medium_$12.75@

12.85; others 8128561113; packing sows

and roughs $11@11.25.



Cattle.

Receipts 100. Market steady.

Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 300. No choice lambs here;



feeling steady to strong.





Calves.



Receipts 300. Tops at $12.



DETROIT

Cattle.



Receipts 562. Market on heavy

steers and heifers 25c lower. Others

steady.



Good to choice yearlings,



dry-fed ................. $9 00@11.00

Best heavy steers, dry-fed 8.75@ 9.25

Handyweight butchers .. 8.50@ 9.75

Mixed steers and heifers 7.5061? 8.50

Handy light butchers . 6.50@ ' 7.75

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

Best cows ................ 6.50@ 7.00

Butcher cows ........... 5.25 6.00

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

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

Choice bulls ............. 5.0069 6.75

Heavy bologna bulls 4.50@ 5.75

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

Feeders ................. 5.50@ 7.75

Stockers ................. 5.50@ 6.75

Milkers ................. $45.00@75.00





Veal Calves.

Receipts 813. Market steady.

Best .................... $11.00@11.50

Others . ............. ‘ ..... 5.00@10.50’





320; retail 35c; Leghorn broilers,

wholesale 35@40c; retail 40@45c; col-

ored broilers, wholesale 45c; retail 50

@55c; veal 16@17c; hens, dressed 40c;

springers, dressed 40c; broilers, dress-





Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 1,210. Market steady to

50c higher; one fanc‘y load at $13.25.





 





Best lambs ............. $12.25@13.oo ed “@750-

gair liambs .............. iggggiégg

ear n S ............... . .

Fair toggood sheep ...... 6.00@ 7.00 APPL'CAT'ON FOR POTATO CER-

Culls and common ...... 3.00@ 5.50 T'F'CAT'ON MUST BE IN SOON.

Light to commonHédé...“ 8.00@ 9.25 The 1925 rules and regulations for

Receipts 2,218. Market is 15c lower. seed potato inspection and certifica-

Mixed yorkers and pigs ........ $12.35 gfi’gf‘go‘gl‘t’hevalgble 31d fiantlire pfro-

. 15 0 cc. pp ca on or

Pigs and roughs ....... . ......... 10.00 th-(éhutlfipecgffi service must be filed

wi e.c e 0 seed potato inspec-

CHI-5360 tion servme, East Lansing, Michigan,





one or before June 5.—M. C





Moore,

Chief of Inspection Service.





Receipts 28,000. Market uneven;

steady to 100 lower; big packers are

inactive. Good 150 to 210—lb. average

large $12@12.15; tops $12.25; 200 to

350-lb. butchers $11.80@11.90; bulk of

packing sows $10.50@10.75; strong

weight slaughter pigs mostly at $11.25

@11.75. .



Cattle.





Receipts 10,000. Shippers and local

killers hand-picking steers, taking the

better grades at firm prices. In-be~

tween grades and heavies are slow

and weak; strictly choice steers at

$11.25; medium weights $11.35; year-

ling steers and light yearling heifers

$11025; liullls weak, mestly 5at $h5i.1g@

. ; r

2: 313231672?“ vea e s 0° g er; the program the Oakwood Club will



Sheep and Lambs. , cross bats with the Oxford Business



Receipts 9,000. Fat lambs are fairly 333;? 013?, bthe winners to play the

active and mostly 250 higher. Two 3°“ u ;

loads of California springers at $16;

averaging 61 lbs; good to choice lambs

averaging 85 to 88 lbs. at $13.50; heav-

ies $11.50; sheep steady; few sales of

good fat lambs. , ‘





 





TO HOLD RALLY AND PICNIC.





ARRANGEMENTS are being made

for a big rally and picnic of the



eastern Michigan farmers’ clubs,

at Dryden Park, one mile south of

Dryden, on June 9. There will be

games and a short program with lots

of mus1c by the North Oxford Farm-

ers’ Club Orchestra. It is expected

that . Vice-president Kellogg, of the

Michigan State Association of Farm-

ers’ Clubs will be present._ W. H. Hal-

loch, o fthe Berlin-Almont Club will

be general chairman of the day. After





 





 





COMING LIVE STOCK SALES.





 





Shel-thorns.

June 2—N. J. Bishop, R. 5, Ionia.





cuties on the market, it- is generally. .

granted that our markets are relative-

view of the necessary imports, the





for light work horses, farm chunks or
C.





tam Building (directly across street.

one.) outlined. D.





 





 





 





 





 





3001“ gilimi'mihiif"? .. “Nihili-

=fi:csrrts

Build U Your Herd

oflsolsteim 1 1

- bull. We offer sever: . some 0

0.01% some :3 11%.???





.13. Write for particulars





1.1.11.0"?513 (11.11.1111. Mich.





o ' You” Bulls





ml months





Good IMI'IdllllS and

“ “‘3: to are





~' mm

32.391.15.11. rm...“ Ii





MICHIGAN JERSEY CATTLE CLUB





e cattle for ule.





mm or carioude.





on Midi“





Can “110:





not. prices

Oovv Test-





In. E. DflHIDON.eriold Men. M Lansing. Mich





BUTTERB





CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FA





Silver Creek. Allegan County.





BUL 8

RED ”ESE‘QM LAE L





Michigan





Gotfredson Farms

ShorthOrns





Herd headed by Maxwaloon Mack,

celebrated Rodney. Good





that are reasonable.

at 111 mm” at primer the good breedinil rim“ 9'





to the Superintendent.

Ypsilanti,





you to inspect 0119

the country Wme

Gotfrcdson Farms.





WILDWOOD FA





FOR SALE—~Six splendid young cows





ers. Also two bull calves.





milking ancestry-





8 mos. old.

Beiand 5.. Beland, Tecumseh,





a good son of the

bulls and females for sale





We invite





Mich.





and two heif-

of best:

Mich.





.FOR SALE





Red Polled Bull, 4

e and broke to lead. Geo.

Howard City, Mich.





Racine-re

one. Gent!

R. "0. 3p





Davison Farm

8.15. ALEX. BRUCE. Mon.





Shorthoms





STOCK FARM-





FOR SALE





with best breeding

(-rs. F. W.





FOR SALE





Feldkama. Manchester. Mich.





HOGS





cows and h

Box 0, TecumIeh.





ing Sho





Brown Swiss





ve- are old.





A good

L. Helmhecker.





of ualit and breeding

Best (1 eifgrs for sale. BIDWELL.





Shorthorn Bulls. Two extra. good

ones. 1 year old. Fine

B. I. Duvison,





individu-

Il ich.





Bulls.





ich.





obtainable. and out of heavy

SULLIVAN, Augusta. Mich.





Bulls.

able age or younger. A.





Four choice registered Milk-

rthom bull





calves

milk-





service-





Lakefield Farm Durocs





We oh'er fall boars and open gilts.

Super Colonel.





Likelield Farm, _

Large.” 3 DUI'OG sowS ‘0 furrow





June.

r last all gills to breed





fbr

CLYDE A. KERSHAW, Plainweli,





A choice son of

Bred sows for summer and fall (arrow.





Clarkston, Mich.





in May and





A wonderful bunch

September fan-ow.

Mich.





REGISTERED 0.‘ I. C. GILTS





ready for breeding for fall faxrow.

5311013.

All stock shipped on approval.

R. No. 2. Plymouth, Mich.





0. lo C’s. each for

LEAF STOCK FARM. Monroe,

0. I 'C’s





Rockford, M ich inan.r





30 days





Also some extra. good spring pigs.

FRED W.





Bears ready for





both sex.

K E N N EDY,





20 Choice March boar pigs at $15. 00

only CLOVER

Mich.





March pigs from 2 litters of 27

ised. C. J.





THOMPSON.





O.I. C’s--Choice Spring PI 5





 





either sex A. J. Barker 0. Son. Belmont, Mic.



° either sex. by the great Boar, The

Fall Pigs Wolverine. Priced reasonable Best

of dams. W. E. Livingston, Perms. Mich





 





POLAND CHINA





Fall boar pig.

individual of splendid breed-





An excellent





 





 





ing. WESLEY HILE, lonia. Mich.

HESTER WIIITES FOR SALE" One 20—month-

old herd boar. Also gills sircd by, or bred to

a son of the Grand Champion Boar of Michigan.

V. L. SIMMONS &. SON. Ionia. Mich.

HORSES





 





FARMERS ATTENTION!





1V9 have some extra good Percheron and Belgian





Stallions of size and quality.

Fair prize winners.

good Stallion, you can easily

breeding association~service





fee plan.





International & State

If your locality is in need of a

secure one on our





FRED G.





STEVENS 00.. inc.. Breckenridg-e. Mich.





FRANCISCO FARM BELGIANS





We .now offer the 2-yr.-old registered bay.





Belgian





 





 





Stallion, "Invincible Don.” A remarkable individual.

weight, 1.050 lbs. at 21 months. P. P. POPE, Mt.

Pleasant, Mich., R. 3.

SHEEP

2’ 000 Grade Delaine Yearling Ewes. Large

size. heavy shearers F. H. RUS-





SELL. Box 20. Wakeman. Ohio.





 





tired in: card on



“ been advertising»w fundu ay

15, according to the report ofw Frank

.W rrick, custodian of funds for the

campaign association. The fund is

made up of voluntary contributions

given in equal amounts by both grow-

er and jobber on a percentage basis

for each hundred pounds sold by the

individual grower.



Active work on the campaign began



with the annual bean growers' confer-

ence held at Saginaw on February 22.

—At that time it was voted to hold the

next winter conference in Huron coun-

ty, but the progress of the advertising

campaign may warrant a. further con-

sideration at a special summer confer-

ence and plans are under way for the

holding of such a meeting some time

within the nex't few months according:

to A. B Cook, of Owosso, chairman of

the Saginaw conference.

. Commenting on the progress of the

advertisin fund, Mr. Cook stated that

if every e evator and grower in Mich-

igan had contributed his share toward

the fund, $50,000 would already be

available for use in encouraging con-

sumption, should the year prove excep-

tionaily favorable for beans, and ex-

cess production render the movement

of the bean crop unusually slow and

cumbersome.



The thirty-eight elevators listed as

having forwarded receipts toward the

fund represents a. substantial increase

over the number heard from at the

time of Mr. Merrick’s first report in

February.



Elevators and branch elevators who

had sent in receipts up to May 15, are:



Chatterton &, Son, Delwin, Clare,

Sanford, Pompeii and Mt. Pleasant;

Michigan Bean Company, branches at

Croswell, Vestaburg, Fenton, Owen-

dale and Farwell; Christian Breisch &

00., branches at Lansing, Fenwick,

Charlotte, Shilo and Dewitt; Isbell

Brown Co.; Flushing Elevator Co.;

John C. Liken & Co., Sebewaing; Stur-

gis Bros, Fowler; Breckenridge Farm-

ers’ Elevator Co., Wheeler; Louis

Steele, Imlay City; Morrice Bean &

Grain 00., Morrice; S. Cushman &

Sons, Bath; Henderson Cooperative

Elevator 00., Henderson; Holly Grain

& Produce Co.; McBain Grain 00., Mc-

Bain; Traverse City Milling Co., Trav-

erse City; Sebewaing Cooperative Ele-

vator 00., Each; E. A. Remer & Son,

Cedar Springs; C. A. Davis, Eden;

Cass City Grain Co., Cass City; 0. D.

Corwin, Williamston; Michelex Ele-

vator & Wholesale 00., Port Huron,

(contribution); Huron Milling 00.,

Harbor Beach; Orr Bean & Grain Co.,‘

Midalnd; W. E. Laur & Son, Midland;

Chas. Wolohan, Inc., Hemlock; Auburn

Elevator Company, Auburn—J. C. C.





NEW BULLETINS.





 





W0 one-sheet supplements to for-

mer spraying bulletins, and a ”vest

pocket” dairy feeding booklet,

were the only bulletins to come off the

presses of the extension department at

Michigan State College last week.

Methods of control of cherry—leaf

spot are outlined in the first of the

sheets, which includes a schedule of

four spraying dates beginning just af—

ter the petals fall. The complete

schedule with the spraying solution

recommended may be obtained in a.





more complete form by applying for

Bulletin No. 147 of the extension

series.





“Dewberry Anthracnose Control” is

the title of the second timely supple-

ment which deals in brief with the

control of this disease, starting with

details for the first delayed dormant

spray due at the end of the budding

period. Special Bulletin No. 14 cov-

ering the subject in detail will be sent

flee on application



A handy little dairy feeding lefcr-

ence book Wiitten by P101 ..I E Bur-

nett from practical experience with

dairy rations at the college farms, is

the pocket-size extension circular,

“Practical Dairy Cow Feeding.” in it

the reader

of weights of different grains and

roughage dairy foods necessary to

make a balanced ration with either

alfalfa, clover hay, or silage and mix-

ed hay, as the major constituent. Sep—

arate paragraphs are devoted to the

feeding of dry cows, the feeding ration

at freshening time, and feeding cows

on pasture. The last few pages con-

tain interesting tables which show the

comparative costs of the two main

dairy food elements, protein and diges—

tible nutrients, per pound as found in

the common dairy feeds, grains, hay,

roughage and oils.





 





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all has 3111113116.





SPECIAL SALE. standard Bee Hives One Story per pack of fivef hives. 8 frame. wood covers S9 50.

"Mind cow's 8:10.85 10 frame. WWO Sefnd orepecin pflcehstof





A. G. WOODMAN (10.,





- DEPT. M. F. 0'GRAND RAPIDS, MICH





36-312 75.





an"





 

 





liedfértiume‘n

thin: miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange.

at chained rates, or in dispia



m In at. a . no mention.





 





one





 

 





consecutive ligation: 6 cent: I. word.

display type or illustrations admitted.





 

 





°Minimum chem. to words.





 





ielldod "digestion: den-stout in establish“

bring best results under classified 1101 “a.





column: at commercial rat

Count I: a word each abbreviation, initial or number.





Remittances must accom

Rut estate and live stock advertising have «urn. departments and are not accepted a classified.





 





arm «name... of Hichism tuners. f

m it for want ids and for ddvcr- '

Poultry advertising will be run in this department





ugttimteurlnuruem: Mfofll‘flnfi:

puny ord





 





   





 





()ne Four Four



10... ..... $0.80 32.40 26........ 820. 08 $6.24

11.... .88 2.04 27........ 2.16 6.48

12........ .90 2.88 6.72

18. 1.04 8.12 I. 95

14. 1.12 3.36 1.20

15. 1.20 3.50 1.44

10. 1.28 5.84 7.05

11. 1.88 4.05 7.92

18. 1.44 4.82 5.16

10. 1.5! 4.56 8.40

20. 1.60 4.50 5.64

21. 1.65 5.04 8. 88

22. . 1.76 5.25 0.12

23. . 1.84 5.52 9.36

. 1.92 5. 71; 9 00



........ 2. 00 I‘- 00 9. 84





 





3. 28

All udonfllln: a):

dilnnflnmu order:

or change of cm III-





Special Notice





la: in advance qfnbllu mu lau.





REAL ESTATE





 





Lake Frontage. Sale lots on beautiful large resoxt

lake should pay for entire property: excellent city

markets: 55 acres fertile fields for bumper (rops, 20-

cow wire-fenced pasture, lake and spxlng watered, es

timatcd 1000 ads. valuable wood, timber, variety fruit:

shaded (l-room house overlooks lake: barn. poultry

house, granary, etc. Aged owner sacrifices at $3,000,

fumiture, horse, 5 cattle, hay, com, fodder, potatoes.

implements thrown in: only $1,000 needed. Dctails

pg. 142 new 190 pg. Catalog farm bargains through-

out 24 states. Frec. Strout Farm Agency, 205-Bf‘,

Kresge Bldg, Don-nit, Mich.





 





IMMEDIATE POSSESSION OR FOR FALL DE-

LIVEIIY~One to ten ycars, $9.00 per acre

rental, rich loam, going farm includes com-

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





big basement barns, orchards, ohm. joining north side

Elmwood Intemrbnn Stop (I'uy ('()n(lll(:tm'A—n0 tick—

ets—22 Pine Lake and Owosso curs stop daily). 8

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

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

Come see owner at said form. Will also sell 251

Gunson Street. East Lansing, house, garage. corner

lot near Campus. $3.000. Save this adu-rtisunu-nt.





 





FOR SALE—120 acres good heavy ciuy land in (‘hip-

pews. (10.. Northern Michigan. Wonderful grain and

grass land. Will make an ideal dairy farm. it ad—

joins highly improved dairy farm and is :1 bargain at

$1,500. Address Edward Doll, Daftcr, Mir-l1.





 





OWNER moved from state selling good New York





homestead. cash or terms. Buildings. orchard, woods,

200 acres. Don’t write unlcss you mean business.

Box 12. Spencer. Ind.





 





FOR SALE—*MO‘acrc farm, near Detroit, on Grand

ltivcr Road: best land: building with latest imprOve~

mcnts, with stOck and tools. Apply Cluny Stock

Farm, R. F. D. 2, Fowleryillc. Mich.





 





FOR SALE~~By owner, twelve acws, good soil, Well

improved, best part northern [ndiana. Buildings in.

surcd for price asked. Joseph Bishop, R. 0, Goshen,

Indiana.





 





WANTED—to hear from owner of farm or unimproved

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





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





FOR SALE._214%-ax-rc farm in Jackson (‘0. Herbert White Diarrhea All nor-ks tested—second test on

Ready, Mumth, Mich. Rocks and Reds. All popular varieties. Ask for

Catalogue. Pierce Hatchery, Jerome. Michigan.

FARM MACHINERY s

SUi'i'Jlllgll.i‘HH‘KS~—90 up. 12 varieties. Henvy

RICH MAN'S (‘om Hancstor. poor man’s Wicca IMF”? 9“”er guaranteed. Postpaid. refc~

only $25.00 with bundle tying attachment. Free cat— $35332 Cahtqnloguc Free. Supenor Hatchery. Box 888. I

alog showing pictures of halyestcr. Box 528. Selina. 1n ”m" 0'

Kans. '

BABY (‘IIH‘KS iIulz-iu-(l from thoroughly culled.

DELCO LIGHT AND l’O‘VER PLANT: tWO motors: fliN‘k‘. Ii. ‘l.‘ ”Nix, Ii. l'. HOOKS, $14 ”(71' 100. ‘1me

water pump: Washini.r Machine: Flat Iron; A 1 shape: chhoms, M" "W 100, pa"’""’” H"”"“'ry' Carleton.

$350. Wunm, mm Hour Club. St. Clair Flats. Mich. MU"!-

FARM DlT(‘lI DIGGHR"BHULI Your own. For lmr- BABY CHICKS vSupc'rior Ilinglct Barred Rock“ 10

ticulars write (‘5 G. Aldon, 225 E. Tenth Street. [lose (‘omb llwis, 101'. White Leuborns, So. I T'Vyndc:

Erie. Pennsylvanla. luuu’s ldczll lintv'lu-rv, ’l‘iffin, Ohio.

S. C. BUFF LI'JGHOIIN CHICKS from selected stock

MISCELLANEOUS on free range, only one breed. Prices reasonable.

Circular free. Willard Webster. Bath. Mich.

BOYS~One boW, two arrows. one Indian finger trap,

all for 50 cents l’ost l’uld. lndlan Art Store. Good (‘HH‘KS MM and .lunc. I'lnLilx'il “bite Leghorns.

llart. Mich. sa- lmnwl ll'Nl\~. 101'; Black Minor: .,1~ 12". ill—

.sidc. liatv'ln'l'l', Holland, l‘lll'll.

(‘EDAR POSTS in car lots. direct. from pmduccr. .

Freight Dill-id your station Wi‘ii‘fl for “pipes, Edgar IUI'IIAIHISUN'S Rocky Ridge Baby Chicks. Barred

Doty, Atlanta, Mich. [locks and iiwis, from stnl'k blood tested for Bacil—

lury White Diarrhea. Hanover, Mich.

TOBACCO BABY (‘IIH‘KS ~Ali popular varictJI-s. i'jxtremcly low

prim-s~ aftcr _.iuno lvt. Write, Litrbflcltl Hatchery.

IIOMESI’UN T0BA(‘(,‘,O——-(,‘l1ewing, five pounds. $1.50; Inn'hfll'ld. MM!-

teu. $2.50: smoking. the pounds, $1.25: tcn, $2; pipe .

i'rco, pay when receivcd, satisfaction guaranteed. Co— READ Shady Lawn Poultry Farm Ad on Page 714

operative Tobacco Growers. Maxons Mil]. Kentucky.

TURKEYS

iIOMlu‘Sl‘UN TOBACCO. Chewing, 5 lbs, $1.50: (on, y .

$2.5“ Smoking, 51M” $1,25;tcn, $2.00. pay when 'i‘UthLY EGGS —1\I:1mm0th Bronze, Bourbon Red.

'rul'uiw'd, pipe and rot-cipt i'rcc. Farmers’ Union. I’a- Narragansett and White HOUMG- You should 0M0

ducah, Ky. your order early. Write Walter Brod. Powhatan

l’omt. Ohio.

LOOK lllilli'l! Guaranteed, fragrant, mellow. rich.

honuspun tobacco. li‘ivo pounds chcwiuu, $1.50: AGENTS WANTED





will find a compich table=





‘l’uy when receilcd. F.





 





 





hudnd for flu Clarified Department mun reach thiI afiu MI I





1311-1an nomrrsp MICHIGAN FARM—Valuablo'





   

 





 





flowering and bedding plants.





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FINE FIELD GROWN CABBAGE PLANTS Ready—

31 25 thousand: 5000. $500. Tomato :2. 00 thousand:

5000, $7.50 Cash. Fine Plants. Satisfaction guaran-

teed {11- money refunded. J. P. Council! 00.. Frank-

In. 'a.





CABBAGE AND TOMATO PLANTS. Hardy Fidel

grown standard varieties. 100. 50 cts.: 500. $1.50:

1,000, $2.50 “Tit-Resistant Tomato, 100. 75 eta: 500.

52.00: 1,000, $3.50. postpaid. Farmers Plant 00..

Fruitland Park, Mississippi.





TESTED WHITE DENT SEED CORN. Michinn

grown. 95% germination. butted and tipped. $3.00

per bushel. Mail orders filled promptly. Millett.

Elevator (,‘.o., Lansing. Mich. Route No. 6.





 





 





 





FOR SALE—Vegetable plants $10 per 1,000. Many



Price on application.

i‘hclxea Greenhouse, Chelsea, Mich.

SEED BEANS—

picked. at farm.

ll. rook. Owosso,





 





Improved Robust Certified. hand-

giurhmer particulars on request. A

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supp BEANS—Michigan wmm Northern. Yield. 35

bu. per acre. ' Price $7.25 per 100 lbs. Free Samples.

liz-nry Foley, ll. 5, Mt. Pleasant. Mich.





EARLY CABBAGE PLANTS—Thousand $2.00 packed

with moss. poetpaid. Dahiledaie Farm. Ocean View.

Virginia.





GENUINE improved Robust seed beans.

5: Son, “’heeler, Mich.





 





 





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PET STOCK





sharp watchful.

Mich.





 





POLLII'ZS.

Storms. Millersburg.





four months old. Milo





 





 





POULTRY





SIIH' US YOUR FAT IIENS and fresh eggs may

Tuesday. Write for a quotation. East Coast Poultry

(‘0.. 1300 Division St.. Detroit, Mich.





 





 





 





BABY CHICKS





 





(‘IIIt'KS-«Barred and White Rocks. R. I. 118118.531!

per 1001111211311 White Leghoms, $11 per 100. Spe-

cial American Stxain White chhorus. $12 per 100.

These chicks are all from thoroughbred stmk and we

guarantee 100% live on arri1a1.lart-el post paid.

At Hatchery 50c less per 100. Hatchery four miles

east. of Mt. Morris, on Mt. Monis road one mile

north and one mile cast. (‘hicks every Wednesday.

Stupid” 1sluice. Meadow Brook Hatchcry, Mt. Morris.

. 11'1. 'IOlll‘.





 





JUNE LICGHORNS are profitable if properly bred.

A flock of our pullets, hat/shed July 9th, last season

laid first nag November 18th. laying 50% by Decem—

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





our farm. livery hcn trapnested continuously. Every

male pcdigrccd from dams mer 249 eggs. All birds

blood lvstcd. 100% live delivery guaranteed. W. 8.





Hannah & Son, it. 10, Grand Rapids. Mich.





 





BLOOD TESTED two years

Leghorn Chicks. World





Barred Rock and White

. (‘hampion laying strains.

Special reduced prices, May and June. Satisfaction

guaranteed. Ascitine Poultry Farm, 1827 Belden.

Grand Rapids. Mich.





 





BABY (JTHII [(8 from florks blood- tested for Bacillus-y





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





.25. Samples, 10c. Clark’s liivcr Plan—





[In 20] , Kentucky.





xmokim. I?!

I.Ilion,100,





 





HOMESI’UN TOBACCO—Chewing, 5 lbs. 351.501110,

$2.50. Smoking. 5. $1.25; 10, $2. Mild, 10, $1.50.

Gupwn. Bardweli, Ky.





 





 





SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK





2,000,000 CABBAGE PLANTS. June.

Strong. stocky guaranteed. Wakefield, Copcmmgen,

Flat, Dutch. Bullhead. Mail prepaid, 100, 45cls; 300,

$1.00: 500. $1.25; 1000, $2.25. Express, 5000, $7.50.

Cauliflower and Aster. 100. 70 ('15. Buy ncnr home





Jilly delivery.





 





grown. List free. W. J. Mycrs, Ill. 2. lilassillon,

()llio.



SWEET POTATO PLANTS. Varieties, Porto Rico.

Nancy Hall and Big Stem Jersey. Tomato l‘lsnts.





Greater Baltimore. Livingston Globe and

iczirlizina. Prices Parcel Post paid. 500, $1.60: 1000,

$3.00. Express Collect, $1.50 per 1000. We ship the

size of plant you wish. Satisfaction guaranteed.

'l‘ifton Potato Company, lnc., Tifton, Ga.





variot it's.





 





FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS.g1-ovm in open

field. 300 $1. 00; 500, $1. 50: 1000. $2. 25. poetpaid:

10. 000 expressed. $11.00 Tomato plants, 300, $1. 25:

500. $1.50; 1000. $2.50, postpaid. Expressed, 10.000.

520. Absolutely guarantee satisfaction. Ideal Plant

00.. Franklin, Ya.





FROSTPEOOIF CABBAEMJ‘. otniogs and tgrnattoes.

Strong. or v p ants. mm s Ipmen a 1s 11(

tion more 100 51:10 $1.,25 1,600 $2 00

Pepper. 100 50c, 1.000 $2. 50. All postpaid. East

Tens Plant 00.. Foam. Texas.





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LOCAL illS’l‘ilillU’i‘OilS \VANTI'ID in certain court

tics to show i'urmcrs bow “Ii‘ly~i\'il” kills flies and

protects live stock. it actually sciis itself. Amazing

profits certain! “'1: want lncn who are known as

«warn and I'csxvonsibiv. Jihad our fill. 011 page 710

of this issuc. Write immediate-1y and get your home

territory. “i"lyiKii" Division, \Viilhclm Oil Company.

St. Paul. linincsota.





it ill 1' TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. Get three good re-

sponsible faxmers to go with you to inspect California.

state approved lands Opportunity for one good man

in 0.1111 (ammunity to join largest land selling organ-

17.1mm in U. . Write for details. Herman Janss.

1105 Transportation Bldg” Chic,ago Ill.





 





AG l'NTS —Our new Household Cleaning Device washes

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

l‘osls less than brooms Over half prom. Write

Halpel‘ Brush Works, 173 3rd St, Fairfield, Iowa.





 





HELP WANTED





YAK'ATION POSITION: teacher or advanced”y student.

mterostmg healthful work; generals us , ‘

Bids. . ‘





 





bonus. Write E. Ilennell, 309 Park Ave‘l‘ry

Detroit, Mich.





 





HELP WANTED—One or two cxperiemed single men, .

for our modern dairy farm. None but clean. study. "

felfows who know their business need apply. Per-

mancnt work. i". W. Sullivan, Augusta. Mich.





 





WA N TED—County

Kua rantccd

come.





Agent. man or women. to ad!

article used by every farmer. Good '

l’ut'ity Stamping 00., Battle Creek. Mich.
“Diana” steps down from Moorish





 





 





 





 





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William and George Murray, six-

_ year-old twins, two of 10,000 ba-

den gives way to business. by Police Commissioner Richard Enright. bies at Nat. Baby Show, Chicago. ,





 





Delegates from all the world to the International Police Conference

tower as Madison Sqaure Gar- were entertained in New York at luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria





 





 





 





 





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Not a compound loud speaker, though it works on the same prin-

elple, but an “airplane detector” searchingthe skies around New





Bishop of New York, and his subordinate

York to warn anti-aircraft gunners of “hostile" planes.





Rev. William Manning, ‘

clergy watched the steam shovel turn the first earth for the

Protestant Episcopal Cathedral'of St. John the Divine in N. Y.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





   





This big whale strayed past tlfia shoals from

deep water at Sabine Pass, Texas, and was

captured when low tide came.





 





George A. Parks is the newly ap-

pointed governor of the cold and





Eleanor McCarty, wealthy and talented society

gold country, Alaska.





girl of New Orleans, is ready to hop off for

a tour of Europe in her OWn plane.





 





 





 





   





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All records for classical group high jump-

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'their recent appearance in London.





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