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THERE is a widespread belief that Michi~

gan is not an important agricultural state.

This opinion is quite general outside of Mich—

igan and a surprisingly large number of people

within the state hold the same view. A thor—

ough analysis of the statistics bearing on the

subject not only fail to verify this opinion but

actually disprove it. Care should always be

exercised in making comparisons to see that

correct conclusions are obtained. A compar-

ison of the volume of production in dirlerent

states means relatively little. It is the returns

per acre or per man and the regularity of such

returns year after year that counts. It deter—

mines whether agriculture is profitable or not. One would not expect
Rhode Island to produce as much as New York because of the disparity
in size; but if the Rhode Island farmer produces as many dollars’ worth
of crops and as re ularly as the New York farmer, it is obvious that the
flormer state shoufd be considered on a par with the latter in. crop pro—
uction. ‘

Michigan ranked seventeenth in the value of its crops last year,
but a careful analysis shows that 12 of the 16 states outranking it had a
greater area of improved land. Only 35 per cent of Michigan’s land area
is improved and only 52 per cent is in’farms. The greater part of the 17
per cent of unimproved land now in farms is capable of being reclaimed.

While Michigan’s record as an agricultural state is now being
made chiefly from 35 per cent of its area, it is safe to say that the improved
area can be doubled as the need for it arises. Neither has the limit of pro—
duction been reached. The marvelous growth of industries has drawn
heavily upon the able bodied man power of the farms until, in the
majority of cases, the farms are not being operated to their maximum
capacity. This is a situation that need cause no alarm. It is merely the
application of the law of supply and demand, and emphasizes the fact
that the State has a potential crop production asset that will take care of
its needs for a long time to come, and when developed, will place Mich-
igan ahead of many leading states that are already well developed and
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it has many other 1926 additions
to Buick quality and value . . . .
and that its price is lower.

Buick, again, has built a better
automobile!

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‘ BEEF production is a, sytem of live

stock farming, gherein large quan-
tities of roughage and of pasture
are converted ”into marketable prod-
ucts with the addition of only enough
grain feed to produce a market finish.

A herd of cows or steers will spend
the summer on pasture with very little
attention, and rarely any loss from
disease. The concentrating of animals
in large numbers on small areas and
under unnatural and forced conditions
creates the proper medium for disease.

Expensive winter quarters are un-
necessary for beef animals. A shelter
from rain and snow, and a good wind-
break, is all that is required, if consid—
erable grain is being fed to fattening
cattle. A herd of dry breeding cows,
or of stocker steers, will maintain
their weight on roughages of good
quality, without the addition of the
more expensive concentrates; how-
ever, a fairly warm barn will save con-
siderable feed.

No single feed has been found' that
will surpass good, luxurious pasture
for a complete cattle ration. Fresh
green grass supplies all the food nutri-
ents required for normal growth and
milk production, except possibly in al-
kaline regions, or other sections where

. some essential minerals are lacking.

Mature animals will fatten readily on
good pasture. Kentucky bluegrass, or
June grass, is the most common, and
one of the best pasture grasses. The
clovers probably surpass bluegrass in
nutritive'value, although they must be
used with care to prevent bloating.
For heavy milk production, or for
fattening young growing animals, the
feeding of grain on pasture is doubt-
less the most economical method for

Following the Fertilizer Fiend

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HE use of fertilizers in Michigan

has a very great part to play in

the production ‘of agricultural
products. Whether the crops are pro-
duced to sell from the farm, or to feed
to the stock on the farm, they must
be produced at a profit. When using
fertilizer it should be with the idea
of cutting the cost of production per
acre, or per man or animal unit, rath-
er than to increase the yield per acre.
Many times the large productions are
completely taken up by the cost of
production, leaving no profits for the
labor or investments.

Occasionally we hear a neighbor tell
us about using fertilizer and getting
no results from it. But why didn’t he?
There may be several reasons. In
practically all cases Where unfavor-
able results hav'e been secured, it has
been the fault of the farmer rather
than the fertilizer. He has used the
wrong kind, he has applied it in the
wrong manner, or he has not used the
right amount. The soil must be con-
sidered and the crop response to fer-
tilizers must be understood. It is just
as essential, and probably more so.
to know what to feed your crops while
they are growing, as it is to feed your
dairy herd for maximum milk and but-
ter production. -

The use of fertilizer in Michigan is

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MICHXQAN

By C A.

Animal lemndry

producing milk or beef. The nearest
approaCh to fresh pasture is well pre-
served corn silage. It comes the near-
est to replacing green grass as succu-
lent feed of any winter feed that can
be economiCally preserved. 'Also in
time of summer drought when pastures
are closely grazed and flies are tor-
menting the cattle, the supply of silage
will prevent a sharp setback in gains
or production.
The Silo Preserves Feeding Value of
Com.

Many farmers think that when the
whole corn plant is put in the silo, the
feeding value of the grain is greatly

, reduced. However, in three successive

years comparing normal corn silage

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with stover silage for fattening steers
at the Michigan Experiment Station,
we found in each case-that the corn
in the silo gave better results than
did an equal amount of dry corn fed
with the stover silage. The cattle
made better gains, carried a better
market finish, and cost less per hun-
dred pounds of gain. Other experi-
ment stations have obtained the same
results in similar trials. The only
case when it might be more profitable
to ensilo only the stover would seem
to be for the purpose of wintering dry
cows or. stocker cattle. Even then the
extra labor invblved in saving the corn
might make it just as profitable to
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increasing each year, but this means
very little to the future agriculture of
the state, if the farmers are using the
wrong mixtures on their soils, or are
not using the proper method of appli-
cation. These increases have not been
rapid, but they have been steady.
Even during the years 1921 to 1923,
When the prices of farm products were
relatively low, the increase in tonnage
was about fifteen per cent annually.

It is encouraging to note that during
this time, and since, the trend of fer-
tilizers has been upward in so far as
the quality of material is concerned.
More high analysis materials have
come on the market, and more low
analysis materails have been dropped
from the list of fertilizer companies.
This was a great move, but it is only
one of several factors that enter into
the use of fertilizing materials. Even
though a high analysis fertilizer is
used, it may have an improper ratio of
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash.

What Are High Analysis Goods?

It might be well to consider here
just what we mean by high analysis
goods. When we speak of a high an-
alysis fertilizer we mean a fertilizer

.- containing fourteen or more units of

plant food. A unit of fertilizer being
one per cent per ton, or twenty
pounds. Then a high analysis fertilizer
would contain a total of fourteen per
cent of plant food as a minimum, or
280 pounds of available plant food.

In comparing a 1-8-1 with a 2-16-2
we find that the 1—8~1 contains a total
of ten units of plant food, while a
2-16—2 contains twenty units of the
same plant food, or twice as much, in
exactly the same proportions. When
you buy either of these fertilizers on
the market, you will find that the
1-8—1 will cost you about seventy-five
per cent as much as the 2—16—2, and
yet you will get only one-half as much
plant food. Fortunately, the 1-8-1 has
about served its time, and in its place
has come "the 2—16-2 along with other
high grade goods, giving the farmer
cheaper and better plant food for his
crops.

This change has been very rapid the
last three years. In the spring of 1922
there were twelve brands of 1,-8-1 sold
in Michigan, in the spring of 1923
there were only six brands, in the
spring of 1924 only three brands, and
this spring we were able to get quota-
tions on a 1-8-1 from only one com-

   
 
 

   
   

  
  
     

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and feed more hay or cured corn
stover.

Corn silage is lacking in one of the
essential food nutrients, protein, and
in order to get the most value from
the silage ration, protein must be sup-
plied in the form of a protein concen-
trate, such as linseed oilmeal or cot-
tonseed meal, or in the form of good
quality legume hay, clover, alfalfa,
cowpeas or soy-bean hay. For main-
taining breeding cows or stock cattle,
one pound per day of the protein sup-
plement, or four or five pounds of the
legume hay will supply the necessary
protein, and also add some of the nec-
essary mineral matter which is some-
what lacking in corn silage.

Probably the strongest objection
to the use of the silo is the labor nec-
essary at filling time. However, ree-
ords show that it requires practically
the same amount of total labor to har-
vest the entire corn plant in any other
manner. It is simply a case of mobil-
izing enough labor at one time, instead
of using all fall and part of the winter
to do it. Many communities solve the
problem by working together with
their available labor and in some. cas-
es hiring a few extra men. Of course,
the more help one has, the faster the
job. In a few days’ time the fields are
cleared for wheat or rye seeding, and
the feed is stored for the Winter. The
big advantage is larger feed value ob-
tained from silage as compared to any
other method of harvesting.

Corn, the Paramount Fattening
Material.

Corn is the standard fattening con-
centrate. The grain is especially high
in carbohydrate material, which pro-

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pany. During this same period of time
the number of brands of 2-16-2 increas-
ed from four to thirteen, so that now
practically all companies selling com-
plete fertilizers in Michigan have it
on their list.

There are still many farmers who
want 1-8-1, or other low grade goods,
because they are cheaper per ton. For
this reason many fertilizer companies
keep these materials on their list.
knowing full well that it is costing the
farmer more per unit than if he were
using only high grade materials. This
is also a handicap to those fertilizer
companies who are cooperating with
the Michigan Agricultural Experiment
Station by selling Only high analysis
goods.

Will Soon Be Extinct.

Low analysis materials in general
are on the decline. In 1912, fifty per
cent of the brands collected and an-
alyzed by the fertilizer inspection ser-
vice of the college were low analysis
materails. In 1917 this increased to
sixty-eight per cent. In 1922, five... .
years later, the fertilizer inspection ’
service was transferred to the newly
created state department of agricul- "
ture. We find in their 1922 report that. .3
only thirty per cent of the brands
were low analysis. This was a marked

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VOLUME CLXV NUMBER TWELVE

DETROIT, SEPTEMBER 19, 1925

 

CURRENT COMMENT

ERE is a little

This stunt that occur-
0 ’1 red in Wexford coun-
"g tto ty. In the northern
Work part of that county a

cow testing associa-
tion has been formed. It so happened
that but twenty-three men were signed
up. The tester came on the first of
July. Having two days remaining in
the month, County Agent Ousterhout,
during July, signed up another farmer
and the local elevator man to fill out
the schedule.

The plan is for the tester to “spend
one day each month with the elevator
man who furnishes commercial feed
to the farmers. By this arrangement
it should be possible for the elevator
man to get a better idea as to the feed
requirements of the farmers. Further-
more, the tester will be on hand to
counsel with any farmers outside of
the association who may Wish assist-
ance in compounding feeds.

The reason why announcement is
made here of this innovation is that
the whole idea is permeated through
and through with the finest type of
spirit of the cooperative variety.

RIDE is an impel-

What ling force that

f drives us on to do the

0. things that others do.
Pride We don’t like to be
outstripped by our

friends or by our enemies. We work

and toil to keep up with, or defeat, our
associates, not necessarily for pecun-
iary gains, but to satisfy our pride.
Many a farmer has worked hard to se-
cure a crop that would beat his neigh-
bor, more than to gain financially by
the extra preparation.

Pride is sometimes confounded with
ambition. When we work for position

' or distinction, or wealth, solely for the

purpose of possessing it, that is ambi—
tion; but when we compare our efforts
with others and do the things for this
purpose, that is pride. Ancestral or
family pride causes us to compare our
ancestors or our family with other
families, and we use our influence and
effort to keep the family name clean
and honorable.

Pride is sometimes confounded with
When we do things in a

he did not. Every instinct told him,

he said, when he Went into the first
battle, to get behind a tree or a rock
—ou'.t of range. But pride. what the‘
boys and: his , friends back home
would say if he showed the white
(feather, compelled him to march right
up to the jaws of death-with the rest
of them.

A certain amount of worthy pride
is a virtue. . It is proper tohdo things
for the purpose of holding the respect
and esteem of our friends and neigh-
bors. But" when pride is carried to
extremes it ceases to be a virtue. It
has been said that pride made the
devil. It is equally true that some of
the finest folks in the communities of
our state are what they are because
their lives have been tempered with
the right degree of this element—
pride.

 

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HE Maine Potato

'Salaries Grower’s Ex-
T change has been in a
o0 bad way. Last year
H18"! salaries amounting to

$70,800 were paid to
ten officials to sell 3,396,725 barrels of
potatoes, which netted the growers
$2,413,854, or a fraction over seventy-
one cents per barrel.

Somehow or other the growers al—
lowed themselves to harbor the feeling
that the salaries were too high for
officers who were able to secure for
their good crop but seventy-one cents
per barrel. So, recently the represent-
atives of these growers met and re-
duced the salaries for the ten men
from $70,800 to $46,400. The sales
manager was cut from $18,000 to
$12,000.

The peculiar thing is that the offi-
cers seem to think the same way on
the subject for, rather than go out to
find other employment, they all accept-
ed the reduction. And, having gone
that far in equalizing the returns be-
tween members, we have a hazy idea
that these men will take the hint and
work even harder to secure favorable
returns from the crop they are called
upon to market this year.

HE rate of immi-
gration has been

Time
1‘ considerably checked
0 by the new immigra-
Absorb tion law. For the

Year closing June 30,
1925, the total immigration into the
country, according to the National In-
dustrial Conference Board, amounted
to 294,314, as compared with 706,896
for the preceding year. Deducting the
aliens who left the country during the
past year, the net increase amounts
to but 201,586, compared with a net
of 630,107 for 1923—24. Many countries
have failed to fill their quotas. More
native Italians left the United States
than entered during the year.

Since, in times past, it was fre-
quently remarked that people from
other countries were coming here too
rapidly to be properly absorbed or
Americanized, it would seem that now
is the time to absorb. Absorbing
simply means for the old-comers to be
friendly and helpful to the newcomers.

T seems that there

Coopera- are several reasons
t. T]! t for the success, or
(on a ack of success, of co-
Co-Ops operation. One of the

prime essentials, it
seems, is that there be a unity of pur-
pose. The Dutch farmers had to find
a market for their eggs and bacon;
the California ‘fruit growers had a
freight handicap that the individual
could not cope with; the Canadian
wheat growers grew far inland more
exportable wheat than any other na-
tion, with the buyersin the advantage
as far as market information is con-
cerned. Distance from market, and
the handicaps that distance brings

make some 1111p “ eye
‘isting agencies which the cooperative"

 
  

 
 

effort attempts to replace. There is
no need of cooperation if the farmers

Can not get, through it, better or more

economical service in the grading,
packing and marketing of their prod-
ucts.

Cooperation, to succeed, must, in the
final analysis, her on the dollar basis.
Sentiment and enthusiasm developed
by high powered orators, make unsafe
foundations upon which to build. Co-

.operation is primarily a business props

osition and should, therefore, be built
from the ground up, on a cold, hard,
business foundation.

NE is out of con-

Michigan tact wit h t h e
d world if he ‘ doesn’t

a". know that Florida is
Florida enjoying a pre-

' tentious real estate

boom. “City newspapers throughout

the country contain large advertise-
ments of get-rich-quick land proposi-
tions, people come back with tales of
fortunes growing like mushrooms.
Florida has just been discovered and
the rush is on. As in all rushes and
waves of enthusiasm, some are going
to win; others are going to wake up
and find that they have been holding
the bag. Regardless of real value,
every rush is overdone; therefore, care
and caution are necessary. Watch
your step and pocketbook in Florida.

And now, just take out your map of
the United States. You will see Flor-
ida as a peninsula pointing south. On
the upper part of the map you will see
Michigan as a peninsula, extending
north. Florida has a vast shore line
and spots of beauty Within. Michigan
has 1,800 miles of coast on the great
lakes, over five thousand interior
lakes, forests and other natural places
of beauty, all suitable for wholesome
recreation. '

The tendency is for people to play
more. Machinery is helping man to

‘ do his work quicker, therefore he will

have more time for the enjoyment of
life. May it not be that Florida. and
Michigan, the two great peninsulas of
this country will be its great play-
grounds, Florida for the winter and
Michigan for the summer.

Florida has been discovered. It is
not without the range of possibility
that Michigan will be discovered very
shortly, too. If so, good Michigan
property will certainly be a safe in-
vestment.

DURING the past

The year we have had
. . plenty of evidence
Criminal of the criminal ten-
Young dencies of .many of

our youths. The girl
in the west who shot her mother, the
two young millionaires in Chicago who
killed for sensation’s sake, and the
young man in the east who killed the
six-year-old girl, are high marks in the
year’s crimes. Bank robberies and
various other escapades just add to
the thought that there is something
radically wrong somewhere.

We blame the spirit of youth for
these crimes, but sober thought brings
the realization that it is not youth,
but rather the bringing up, environ-
ment or care that the young get that
causes youthful energy to flow in the
wrong channels. This, to a great ex-
tent, brings the responsibility upon
the older ones, upon the parents.

The spirit of youth can not be sup-
pressed; it must be directed. If prop-
erly directed in sound, 'wholesome
ways, it can not go far wrong, and
often proves an asset to the individual
and to the community as well.

In this respect, one can not stress!
too much the value of activities such as
boys’ and, girls’ club .work, the soout
movement, the Camp fire girls, etc.,

gives the child the feeling that he has _ '

  

something back of him. It gives him
greater courage to face life' 8 battles
in the right way. rather than to take
the easy way.

We parents have great responsibili-

ties, often neglected, (toward our chil?

dren in doing our level best to give
them a good foundation upon which
to build. The homes of the nation can
do more to lessen the crime wave
than any other agency.

more are nearly

Com a complete for an
I 3.," inspection trip
Inspection through areas in Ohio,
Tour lilichigan, and Onta.

rio, that are infested
by the European corn borer. Repre-
sentatives not only of these infested
areas, but from important corn-pro-
ducing areas of both the states and
provinces, will join in this trip. A
demonstration of control methods will
also be made. It is to be hoped that
out of this trip, and from the work be-
ing done by the state and federal
governments, something practical will
be discovered or developed for the
economic control of this pest.

 

Sleepers

0U folkses what have been read‘

. ing my weekly spasums know that
I oughto know somethifi" about this
subject. Anyhow, Sofie says I’m the
sleepinest sleeper she ever met. I
don’t know how many fellows she’s
met, but I know I lost so much sleep
tryin’ to get her, I ain’t been able to
ketch up yet.

There’s lots 0’ difference in sleep-
ers. Some just sleep, and others take
what you call their vocal exercises
while they sleep. There’s lots what
have gotta close their eyes and open
their month before the)r go to sleep.
Sofie says I don’t
have to do any«
thing like that,
'cause I’m asleep
all the time, 'cept
When there’s
some pretty girls
around, then I’m
wide awake.

There’s lots ’0
different ways ’0
sleepin'. Fer inst, me and Sofie is
takin’ a little trip and we're doin'
some sleepin’. They make our car
seats into shelves, put a curtain in
front of it, and we go head first inks
sleep. We sleep about sixty miles a.
hour, and when the train stops we
stop sleepin’. We go to sleep in one
place and wake up in another. And
we have a black man in a white coat
what makes our beds.

I was sleepin’ in my shelf, and I
thought I heard Sofie, across the aisle,
drivin’ a nightmare. Well, I was just
reachin’ over across the aisle to tell
Sofie she did enuf talkin’ during the
day, when I touched a lady walkin' by,
on the leg; Sofie says limb. I guess
she didnt get scairt much by the
hand 0’ mystery reachin' out from be-
hind a dark curtain, ’cause all she
said was, “What you tryin’ ta do?”
As I wasn’t tryin’ to do nothin’ but
stop Sofie’s nightmare from runnin’
away with her, and as I don’t like ta
talk ta strange ladies when dressed
in my tired attire, -I just didn’t say
nothin'. I was as still as a mouse,
an’ felt about as big as one.

You know, it’s lots 0’ fun takin'
your mornin’ walk in one 0’ them
sleepin’ cars when them curtains is
bulgin’ out with folkses dressin’ be-
hind them. You kin never tell whose
wife you’ re goin’ ta run inta. Any-
how, this fast sleepin’ is likely ta bring
complicashuns, like fast livin’, but you
certainly have a rattlin’ good time
while you’ re at it, especially if the
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‘ ‘ fit: or the factors that limitsthe'
_ successful growing of alfalfa is.

the matter of drainage. Alfalfa simply
must have a, dry foetin‘g if it is going-
to grew. Not so _‘with sweet clover,
that able first cousin to the first nam-
ed legume.” , '

Up. in ' Emmet county, near ’the

Straits of Mackinaw, there is a con-"

siderable amount of cut-over and
burned-over swamp" land—land that
once grew a countless number. of bal-
sam, spruce and cedar. The lumber-

man~ came along and took off the tim-r

her for pulp Wood, posts and poles,
and left a mass of dry tops and second
growth. Then fire came along and
left nothing much. .

J. C. Schmalzreid, a farmer who
lives south of the region described, but

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belief that 'once seeded after a fire'

as

the clover will crowd out all \second
growth and become a defense against
fire, on. the one hand, and, on the oth-
er, provide an abundance of pasture
and good hay, since this crop has al-
ready demonstrated its ability along
all these lines in the north counties.—
K. Vining.’

“ FERTILIZER TREND.

(Continued from page 243).
improvement during the ten-year pe-
riod. Since then there has been even
greater improvement. In 1923 there
were only eighteen per cent 'low an-
alysis, and in 1924 only fourteen per
cent low analysis. /

When you buy your fertilizers, take
your pencil and draw a line through

 

Joseph Steffens has tried out one of the new rotary hoes on his sugar
beet crop. He is enthusiastic over the results.

 

This hoe consists of twen-

tW—nine wheels mounted on two parallel shafts, and each of which has six-

teen points, or prongs, making 464 in all.

This means that in every six

feet covered, 464 of these prongs dig in the soil and loosen it up for a
depth of from three to five inches. Levers easily raise or lower the wheels.
The implement works the soil close to and between the plants in the row

without damaging them.
plants.

who owns an eighty of what was once
a cedar swamp, decided to try an ex-
periment in the spring of 1921. He
wanted to see if sweet clover would
grow on that land. There was still
some snow on the ground and the de-
pressions were filled with water when
they went down to sow the seed.
There was also a considerable amount
of new growth on the land. A fiddle
seeder was used. Crawling over the
stumps and logs, and skirting the
ponds, about three acres of land was
finally covered with seed.

The seed came on after a fashion
that year, but didn’t look good enough
to make Mr. Schmalzreid think it
would ever amount to anything. Along
in the summer of 1922 one of his
neighbors called him and told him he
had better go dowu and look at his
“sweet clover jungle." So he and his
son Frank visited the seeding, and
imagine their surprise when they
found a regular wilderness of sweet
clover growing in the swamp.

They skirted along the edges and,
hearing a noise ahead of them, saw
three deer run out of the sweet clover
in the nearby slashing. Examination
showed that the deer had been feeding
on the sweet clover all summer, judg-
ing by the runs through the patch.
The growth was so thick that it was
hardly possible to get‘ through it, and
so tall that a good-sized man would
be lost to View when six or eight feet
from the edge.

The clover was still growing there
this summer, and has become so thick
and dense that it has quite driven out
the second growth. It hasn’t been
practical to try to cut the crop. for
seed or hay because of the stumps
and logs, but it has been. of value to
know that the swamp will grow sweet
clover.

Mr. Schmalzreid says that if fire
ever goes. over this land‘again, he will

. seed: the entire eighty. it is his

 

 

It does not throw the soil on the crowns of the

all the brands that do not contain four-
teen or more units of plant food. Then
select the fertilizer you need from the
remaining high grade goods. If you
do not know which of the high grade
materials to use, consult your county
agricultural agent, or write tot he
Michigan Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion. Whatever you do, however, re-
member to use only high analysis ma-
terials.

In 1920 there were over 65,000 farms
in Michigan reporting the use of fer-
tilizer. This was only about one~third
of the total farms, and the amount
used only represented an investment
of about $75 per farm. This would
only buy about two tons of high grade
material, or enough for ten to twelve
acres. This is not enough, and there
is little doubt but what this average
will be higher this year.

A Big Investment.

The fertilizers used at the present
time are over 125,000 tons per year,
representing an investment of nearly
five million dollars. This represents
a large investment and the proper ma-
terials must be used if the greatest
dividends are to be secured.

It is interesting to note that those
counties using the largest tonnage of
fertilizers have the most productive
soils. Just how long that practice has
occurred cannot be ascertained, but

, there is no doubt that the counties of

Wayne, Macomb, and Ottawa, with
over 5,000 tons used annually, find it
profitable. Genesee, Huron, Monroe,
Oakland, Sanilac, Tuscola, Van Buren
and Washtenaw have been using well
over 4,000 tons annually. The ton-
nage is steadily increasing and with

this growth will come more profitable
farming.

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The carry-overof beans in Cal'f ’
gills geartfiogghsslgfiw sacks, alsocrdliifl
re w , 9 sac
a year ago. ks on August 1

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ENGINES AT BARGAIN PRICES

We have in stock for immediate delivery these well
known gasoline and kerosene engines in 10 & 12 HP
sizes. Can be furnishul as portable, stationary or
wood sawing outfits. Guaranteed for all kinds of
hard service. Above price is for 12 111’ stationary
gasoline engine F‘. O. B. Lansing. Write for booklet
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White Lamb Lined Boat

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(No Extra Price) , ’
Galv'iivf’ii‘fealedm"
° SquareDeal Rance

The Red Strand (top wire) takes the
guesswork out of fence buying. This
marking means fence made from cop r-bear-
ing steel. (Lasts thce as long as stee Without
copper.) Patented, “Galvannealed” process

 

results in 2 to 3 times more zmc protection
Sleev? S, beSt thanisfoundonordinarygalvanizedwire.This,
out Side cloth, together with the can’t-shp knot; full gauge.

live tension wires; picket-like sta wires,
combine to make .“Galvannealed‘ Square
Deal, the best fence investment you can make.

Eree to Landowners
(1) Rap '8 Calculator (answers 75.000farm neo-
tions), (3 “Oficial Proof of Tests"——tells all a no
comparative tests on different kinds of wire fence
an ) "Square Deal" fence catalog. A regent
brings all threefrae. rsadinathemflou'u ow
why so irony are buying the New RED STRAND
me.

high grade,
ask your
clothier or
write

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Custom Fur Tanner

 

 

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TRANSPOR ATION son SCHOOL
CHILDREN. -

 

When children live three miles from
a school, should \the toWnship provide
transportation for small children? If
sobwgergvshould. we apply for same?

No duty to provide such transporta-
tion exists in the absence of statute

Session Laws (1921) No. 79 pro-
vide for transportation to high school
pupils who have completed the first
eight grades if the district 'does not
maintain a high schoolé—Rood.

 

PAY FOR SERVICE.

 

Can a bull owner collect for service

, if the cow does not catch ?——W. C.

This is purely a matter of contract.
If the service is all that was sold, re-
covery may be had, though no value

was warranted, no recovery can be
had in this case—Rood.

 

UP-KEEP OF FARM.

 

 

We have a farm and it was worked
Iby another man and his son on halves.
When we came to settle up this fall
there arose an argument about some
*damage done by them to the property.
One day their horses ran away, struck
the house, ripped off part of the boards
and tore down the water pipes from
the cave troughs. Another time one of
the men rode over a. large wooden
gate with the tractor, and smashed
part of it. These things were left—im-
repaired and they claimed it is our
business to repair them under upkeep
of the farm. Is this correct, is it our
place to repair these damages? What
is considered under the head of up-
keep of a farm?~—J. Z.

The use of the term “up-keep’ ’in
agriculture, generally means keeping
the land, buildings, fences, etc, up to
a normal state of condition. Such a.
term should be qualified if used in a.
farm lease, as it is too general.

Property under ordinary use depreci-
ates in value, due to the elements and
ordinary wear. This type of deprecia-
tion the landlord assumes. However,
damages done to property outside of
ordinary use should be borne by the
party causing the damage. Many farm
leases have clauses in to this effect.

 

ROADSIDE STAN D.

 

I sold the state a strip of land along
my place, 150 feet wide, for highway
purposes. I put up a booth (where I
sold little things, mostly of my own
raising), on the side of this road. Can
they order the back, (it hurts my bus-
iness), as long as I am not hindering
traific?—J. W. K.

the street depends upon the terms of
his conveyance. Ordinarily the fee in
the land belongs to the abutting own-
er; but it may be that the fee was
deeded to the state instead of an ease-
ment for highway purposes. If the
conveyance was of the easement only,
the abutting owner can use the road
for any purpose that does not interfere
with traflic. If he deeded fee to the
state he can use the street only for
access, and as other members of the
public.

 

LINE FENCES.

 

What kind of fence must I have be-
tween me and my neighbor? His hogs
are destroying our pasture. Do I have
to have a fence against hogs? If so,
what size ?—H. H.

This is a difficult question to an-
swer. By Compiled Laws (1915) Sec-
tion 2206: “All fences four and one-
half feet high and in good repair, con-
sisting of rails, timber, boards, wire,

thereof, and all brooks, rivers, ponds,

 

  
  

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envied tom: ". {mtg “yo,“ one"
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requiring it, and we find no such sta-.
‘ tute.

accrued to the purchaser; but if a. calf‘

The rights of the abutting owner in‘

or stone walls, or any combinatibn»

   

    
  
 

   

  

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creeks, ditches and hedges, or other
things which shall be considered equiv-
alent thereto, in the judgment of ’the

fence 'viewers, within whose jurisdic-i

tion the same may be shall'be deemed
legal.” , . * "

”The courts in interpretingthis stai-
'tute have declared that the fences
should be so constructed as to turn
the animals ordinarily kept upon
farms. This is about as far as the
decisions have gone. The rest seems-
to be left to the fence viewers to de-
termine. It is believed there are no
express decisions on the exact ques-
tion—Rood.

Newsof the Week

National

More than forty-one per cent of the
men’s clothing manufactured in the
glided States is made in New York

1 y.

A cloudburst near Wenatchee, Wash-
ington, caused the death of seven-
teen people. '

. Whiskey and brandy will be listed
m the United States Pharmocopia for
the first time, when the tenth revision
becomes effective January 1.

_ The new post ofiice to be erected
in Chicago will have an airplane land—
mg place on its roof for the landing
of mail planes.

Auto traffic at congested corners in
Detroit is greater than that at New
York’s worst street intersections, ac-
cording to latest auto trafiic counts.

The airplane PN—9 No. 1, which was
to make a non-stop flight between San
Francisco and Honolulu, was found
adrift in the Pacific ocean with her
five aviators safe, after floating for
nine days. All hope had been given
up for the crew.

It is reported that the Ford Motor
Company wants to purchase some
more of,the government ships which
are for sale.

On September 1 the population of
the United States was 114,340,000, ac‘

cording to a. treasury department es-
timate.

General S. D. Butler, who was loan~

ed to the city of Philadelphia as head.

of the vice crusade, is ordered to quit
January 1 to resume active service in
the Marines.

President and Mrs. Coolidge return—
ed to Washington September 19, after
spending the summer at Swampscott,
Mass, the summer Capitol.

A Chicago man has a. name with
twenty-nine letters in it. He is Mr.
Econonapoulouskibergewxeriew. Take
your time to pronounce it; we can’t.

The Chicago Board of Trade is co.
operating with Secretary Jardine to
end wide price swings in grain.

One acre of the farm of T. A. Davis,
near Ava, Ohio, is offered as a shrine
in memory of the fourteen who were
killed in the fall of the airship Shen-
andoah. The Shenandoah fell on Mr.
Davis’ farm.

Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is living near
Geneva, Switzerland, devoting her life
to studying the League of Nations,
which her husband, former President
Wilson, founded.

Foreign

Rene Viviani, former Premier of
France, and one of the greatest or-
ators of the day, died recently at the
age of sixty-one years. ,

Former Kaiser William, of Germany,
lays the blame of the World war on
Great Britain because that country
blocked an alliance between the Unit—
ed States, Great Britain and Germany,
which alliance might have prevented
the war.

The Unofficial strike of British sea.-
men has failed to prevent ships leav-
ing Great Britain on schedule time.
In Australia and South Africa, how-
ever, the strike is seriously affecting
shipping.

WThe Allies have decided to invite
Germany to a conference on the se-
curity pact at Geneva.

Rabbi Stephen Wise said that the
rioting at the Zionist Congress at
Vienna. was not directed at the Jews,
but against the Austrian government.

English financiers, who backed rum
running into this country, are heavy

losers in the breaking up of the rum '
row in the sea by the United“ States ,

government dry fleet.

  
    
       
     
 

 

 
    

  
    

  

 


  
 
 
  
 

 
 
  
 

 

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‘ la ,c'ount‘y. It is composed or twenty-
seven of the progressive dairymen liv-
‘ing. in the neighBOrhood of'Mt. Pleas-
ant.., ., R. V. Hoyle is president of the
organization; . Charles D. Brown, vice-
president, and H. McNamara, secre-
tary-treasurer. They hays emplOyed
Eldon Davidson as their tester. He
is a very capable young ‘man of the
likeable sort, who came to the exten-
. sion department last year from Bowl-
ing Green, Ohio, and has demonstrated
his ability to make good in cow-testing
work. Credit for getting the associa-
tion into working order is largely due
to the zeal and untiring efforts of Mr.
Grambaugh, the Smith-Hughes teacher
in the high school at Mt. Pleasant.

TESTERS’ LICENSES.

 

EREAFTE’R testers’ licenses for

Michigan can Only be issued to
parties who are eighteen years old or
over. On account of difficulties expe-
rienced with younger testers the com-
missioner of agriculture has directed
that no more licenses shall be issued
to testers under eighteen years of age.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

 

Forestry extension work is' meet-
ing with much interest among the
farmers of Kent county.

Potato growers of Mason county,

numbering around 300, are considering

. the handling of a county potato pool
this fall.

A potato tour is being conducted by
Agricultural Agent Milham, of Ottawa
county, to study diseases and insects,
and to inspect a number of fields pro-
duced by the better growers of the
county.

H. C. Moore, potato specialist of the
Michigan State College, déclares that
conditions in Michigan are ideal for
the development of potato blight. He
recommends spraying every ten days
with a 4-4-50 Bordeaux spray.

Extensive plantings of grapes in the
Ozark regions promise Michigan grape
growers serious competition in the
near future. The acreage in Missouri
alone increased from 6,000 to 8,000
acres in 1924. . .

Beppermint growers who escaped
damage from the frost last spring, are
reaping a splendid financial harvest,
the oil at this time bringing over $12
a pound. Yields as high as forty
pounds per acre have been reported.

It is expected that over three million
bushels of potatoes will be produced in
Montcalm county this year. While the
acreage planted is seventeen per cent
under that of 1924, the yield promises
to be in excess of last year’s record
crop.

Sales amounting to over one million
dollars are. reported by the Farmers’
Cooperative Grain Company, of Kinde,
for the past year. The organization
marketed 256 cars of beans and grain.
There are 425 active members of the
organization.

At the West Michigan Potato Show,
to be held at Greenville, October 29-
31, a mock trial is being arranged to
feature the neglect that attends the
production of potatoes on many farms.
The total cash prizes at this potato
show aggregate $1,000.

Students of market conditions be-
lieve that potato growers in the north-
ern states will receive a fair price for
their spuds, unless abnormally favor-
able weather obtains during the next
two months. With normal conditions,
Maine and New York will have nearly
20,000,000 bushels less to séll this fall
than last.

A large pack of extra fine quality
corn is being made at the Edmore
canning factory. At Traverse City,
three canning plants are running extra
shifts to take care of the large quan-
tities of apples brought in from sur-
rounding orchards. Farmers are aid
from sixty to seventy cents per un-
dred for this fruit.

Stanley Johnson, superintendent of
the South Haven Experiment Station,
has observed that pear trees growing
along the east shore of Lake Michigan
are practically immune from blight.
Should his observations be farther sub-
stantiated, the pear orchards of the

- state.-may, in the future, be largely on
the shore otthatbody of water.

   

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agents wanted to salinity orders from their neighbors.
Write us for delivered price and sample by return mail.

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The Auto-Oiled Aermoto
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Windmill and a most reliable pumping machine.
All Auto-Oiled Aermotor, when once properly erected,
needs no further attention except the annual oiling.
There are no bolts or nuts to work loose and no delicate
parts to get out of order. .
There are no untried features in the Auto-Oiled
Aermotor. The gears run in oil in the oil-tight, storm-
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been retained while greater perfection of operation has been
achieved. The Aermotor is wonderfully efficient in the light
winds, which are the prevailing ones. The self-oiled motor works
with practically no friction,‘and the wind-wheel of the Aermotor
is made to run in the lightest breeze. it is also amply strong to

ma safely in the strongest winds. In any condition of wind or weather you may be
sure that the Auto-Oiled Aer-motor will give you the best of service. It is made
“by the company which established the steel windmill business 38 years ago. ‘

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Good livestock is the foundation of good farming. But, with}
out good fences, livestock could not be managed. And, the more '
good fences you have, the easier it is to handle livestock at a
profit. Properly fenced fields on a farm are like rooms in a build-
ing. The more you have, the more revenue you can make.

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ISlece reddencd with anger. His

blood pressure mounted to the

bursting point!“
You have guessed correctly. I am
I give the quotation because it illus-
trates a very popular misconception
about blood pressure. It does not mean
getting red with anger. and it is very
possible to have high blood pressure
without any redness of the features.

It is only in the last decade that the
testing of blood pressure has become
a matter of routine examination by
physicians in general practice. To pa-
tients it is still a. matterof mystery.
I believe I am not going too far iii
any that‘it is also a. matter of mystery
to a. great many doctors.

When a doctor tells you that you
have high blood pressure he has not
told you anything very definite. He
might almost as well have contented
himself by saying, "You are ill." It is
worth while to know if you have high
blood pressure, but the knowledge of
the bare fact does not go very far to-
wards getting you well.

High blood pressure is not a. disease
in itself, it is merely a. symptom. It
is possible that some good may come
from general treatment of the symp-
tom, but not very likely.

So the thing for you to say, when

blood pressure, is, “Very well, doctor.
Why is it high? What causes it?"

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quoting from a. sensational novel. But '

the doctor tells you that you have high _

r" High blood pressure may be caused
,by’ a. disease of the kidneys, a disease
of the heart or bleed vessels, a. ner-
vous disease. a. bad habit, or it may
simply be an indication of too much
work or Worry.

There are conditions under which
high blood pressure is incurable.
There are also cases in which it isac-
tually desirable; cases in which. but
for the increased pressure. the circu~
lation would be insufficient. There will
also be cases in which the doctor's
best eflforts will not enable him to find
a good and sufficient cause for the
high pressure, and all that he can do
is to treat ,the case experimentally.
But in most cases of high blood pres-
sure the doctor has not completed his
job until he has found why, and or-
dered plans for relief.

INSULIN FOR DIABETES.

 

Can a person with diabetes get an
absolute cure by using the prepara-
tion called insulin ?—-—-G. A. R

I do not think that insulin can be,

called a “cure" for diabetes, and no
such claim is made by its advocates.
Yet it is the most wonderful discovery
ever made for the control of the dis-
ease. The eli'cct of insulin is to help
diabetes patients take care of sugars.

It supplies a deficiency in their diges-‘

tive ability. It is a splendid remedy
and in some early cases may result in
cure. Every person who has diabetes
should know about insulin.

 

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POULTRY SCHOOL PLANNED.

 

POULTRY club was organized at

Hermansville, August 26. It is ex-

pected to hold a poultry school
there this fall, under Michigan State
College direction. Mr. R. L. Gulliver,
of the college, is poultry specialist for
the peninsula.

WILL SHIP TO DETROIT. ‘

 

it is planned to establish a farm-
ers' produce market in that city,
for the purpose of shipping local prod-
ucts directly to Detroit.

MARKET DAY IS POPULAR.

 

5 _.
UGUST market day at Ewen, On-
tonagon county, saw about 400
farmers, and others, turn out. The

I market comprised registered dairy cat-
tle, poultry, pigs, used cars, fresh veg:

etables, and used furniture. Outside
cattle buyers were present. On the
same day the Ontonagon County Val-
ley Farmers’ Association held a meet-
ing and elected directors for the ensu-
ing year.

CALVES GO WITH DEER.

 

ILD and domestic animals some-
times get pretty friendly in this
territory. It has long been
known that dogs and wolves occasion-
ally get familiar. The latest repprted
instance comes from Baraga county,
Where two calves have been enticed 1n-
to the wood by a wild deer and have
eluded all efforts at capture. The
calves are reported to have become
quite as wild as the deer itself.

PUBLIC MORE CONSIDERATE,
. SAYS WARDEN. ..
EPORTING on the forest fire situ-
ation in the Upper Peninsula dur-
ing the past season, district fire
warden H. J. Koepp, of Marquette.
nbtes'an increasing sense of responsi-
bility on the part of the public. Indi-
viduals are more ready to report fires
to headquarters and to take the initia-
tiverin putting them out.

In Mr. Kocpp’s district, which coma
prises Marquette, Baraga and a. par-

 

' tion of Houghton counties, there were

178 fires up to September 1, which rep-

 

QRD comes from Manistique that.

resents an increase over years precedg'

ing, but which might have been much

worse, declares the warden, but for
this increased efficiency in fire-fighting.
There has been a pronounced lack of
rainfall in this region, the deficiency
at Marquette amounting so far this
year to eleven inches of precipitation,
and eight inches at Houghton. Many
small stream are dry, or nearly so,
and the hydro-electric power situation
is very unsatisfactory.

TRAFFIC TOO HEAVY FOR
GRAVE

 

IGHWAY Engineer Levin, of Chip-

pewa county, has recently given

attention to the traffic on the
most traveled highways. He quotes
Maine’s experience, which has led to
the conclusion that the most such
roads can take care of and be main-
tained in condition is 500 vehicles for
a. twelve hour day. Counts recently
made on principal trunk lines through
Chippewa county shows that on M-12,
1,139 automobiles used the road in one
day at one point in that county. 01.1
M-25 the number of cars was 1,240.
On M-29 the figures were 202 at Stal-
wart. The time covered by these
counts was from 7:00 a. m. to 9:00 p.
m. The traffic on M-12 and M-25 has
about doubled in four years. These
figures refer to a. normal day’s traffic
—not to a holiday.

ROUND-UP WAS WELL ATTENDED.

 

HE attendance at the annua farm-

ers' round-up’at the Mi higan

State College Experiment Station,
Chatham, Alger county, is reported to
have been about 1,700. There was a
large attendance of women. About 200
farmers gathered at the Upper Farm
in the forenoon to Witness a marl-dig-
ging demonstration. This demonstra-
tion revealed to the farmers that in
all probability they have marl on their
own farms without realizing its pres-
ence.

Among the events for club members
Iron county took first in potato dem-
onstrations, poultry culling, boys'
health contest, sheep-judging and
camp stunts. About 350 boys and girls
were in attendance at the camp on the
banks of the, Slapnecln Gogeblc coun-
ty sent sixty-three boys and girls, and
Chippewa enrolled forty-six. Menom-
inee county took one first and two sec-
ond places. The‘ilrst placewas won
in clothing demonstrations. '

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‘_ HAT" the old", béuer that it takes
Northern Spy apple trees twenty

V or more years to , bear is erroneous,
’ has been proved by Olney & Ander-

sen, on their fruit farm three miles
from Fremont, Michigan. They set
out 100 Northern Spy trees in 1912.
When they were eleven years old, they
produced ninety bushels of fine "salable
fruit, notwithstanding they were given
only a cursory spraying that year.
This year, at the age of thirteen years,

they will average'fivebushels to the

tree, some of the—trees having as many
as fifteen bushels. They give as the
reason for the early and prolific bear-
ing; the fact that “we didn’t cut the
guts put of ’em.” They prune spar-

   

_the rack may be made of wodden slats

or poultry netting. Place the heads
in. these racks, but not so deep but
what the air will circulate easily
among them. With a week or ten days
of dry, windy weather the seeds will
be in shape to handle and thresh out.
But even after the Seed is separated
from the heads it is apt to ferment
and mold or rot if packed in sacks.
The seed must be watched carefully
from the time the heads are harvested
until it is thoroughly dried—V. M. C.

RASPBERRI ES TROUBL-ED WITH
MOSAIC.

 

We had trouble with our black rasp-

~berries, they are so small and they

don’t mature, only two or three seeds
fill out and the others dry up. The

 

 

 

 

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Guy Beattie Cut Marketing Costs to a Minimum, and he Finds the Truck
Invaluable in Doing So.

7 ingly, cutting out only such branches

as interfere with others. “This little
Spy orchard is going to be a little
gold mine for us,” they say—H.
Spooner.

TAKING CARE OF THE SUN-
FLOWERS.

HE sunflower crop is maturing and
will soon be ready to harvest. The
most important and difficult part is
the drying and curing after the heads
are gathered. A good many people

' have been led to believe that there

is a small fortune in sunflower culture.
We surely have to pay a high price
for the seed when we come to buy it
for poultry and dairy feed, and really,
it would seem that it might be a pay-
ing crop to raise.

If the crop could be handled and
cured as easily as corn it would pay,
but this can not be done, especially
near the water, or any place where
there is a humid climate, for the rea—
son that the Seed contains so much oil
it is very difficult to get it thoroughly
dry. With more than the usual amount
of rainfall, the task of drying out is
greater than ever. The writer has
raised several good crops of sunflow-
ers, but the curing in several instances
was a tedious and laborious job. The
sparrows and some other birds work
great havoc when once they get start-
ed in a patch.

The best plan for harvesting the
crop is to wait until the heads are
thoroughly ripe, then cut them off and,
with a farm wagon having a large box,
drive through the field and throw them
into the box, being careful not to shell
any mere of the seed off than can be

’ helped. A good many loose seeds will

be found in the bottom of the wagon
box, but all this can be saved.
Fer curing the crop, racks may be

"built in some dry building where the
'air, circulates freely. The bottom of

   

young sprouts are healthy and nice
now. Is it the disease of the root or
are they run out? They have been in
quite a while. We trim the old stalks
all out and cut the tips off from the
young sprouts after the berries are
gone. Does it make any difference by
cutting the tips off from the young
sprouItIs? ‘When should this be done?

The description. fits exactly that of
the mosaic disease of black raspber-
ries.

The mosaic disease is one of the so-

called virus diseases of plants which »

leads to stunting, dwarfing and event-
ual death of the affected plant. Fruit
from diseased plants are undersized
and frequently fail to ripen. The char-
acteristic of the mosaic disease is the
mottling of the leaves. This is more
readily seen early in the season, but
even at this time it will be noted that
diseased plants have leaves of an “off
color.” The mosaic disease is spread
through the patch through the agency
of aphids or plant lice.

With young plantations it is advis-
able to rid the fields of all diseased
and slow-growing plants. The spaces
can be filled in then with healthy
plants.

I notice that you state that the plan-
tation has been in for quite awhile. I
believe that it would be advisable to
secure new stock and start a new
patch, since old patches frequently
have somany “loafer” plants that they
are unprofitable.

The State Department of Agriculture
is now inspecting all raspberry fields
from which nursery stock comes, so
that one is now able to get a much
better grade of plants than formerly.

It is, of course, possible for you to
secure good plants for setting by put-
ting down tips from the strong, vigor-
ous plants in your own plantation, but
there is some danger if the mosaic and
other diseases are, very prevalent.—
G. H. Coons, Plant Pathologist.

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notice at once their snap and vim,
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The Hot Shot makes farm engines "2333.?”

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me Prices Are Low
Crude Rubber
. Highest In Years

Buy Now and-Save Money!

Experienced car owners insist on tires that

deliver greatest mileage

at lowest cost per! mile.

Such tires last longer—reduce crude rubber costs
—make the restricted rubber supply go further ,
-—help maintain present low prices.

Demands for Firestone quality and mileage
have more than doubled the sales of Gum-Dipped

Cords this year.

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Gum-Dipping, the Firestone extra process, is
a big and important economy factor in tire. per—
formance. This method impregnates every fiber
of every cord with rubber—«gives extra strength
to withstand the extra flexing strain.

See the nearest Firestone dealer.

He will

furnish economical transportation, with maxi-
mum safety and comfort, by equipping your car
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Advertising
that Pays

‘ RY a Mich‘gan Farmer
Classified Ad. to sell
your surplus poultry, or

2? to get that extra help.

They bring results with little
cost, see rates on page 263 of
this issue.

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NEW LAMP BURNS
94% AIR

Beats Electric or Gas

A new oil lamp that gives an amaz-
ingly brilliant, soft, white light, even
better than gas or electricity, has been
tested by the U. S. Government and 35
leading universities and found to be
superior to 10 ordinary oil lamps. It
burns without odor, smoke or noise——
no pumping up; is simple, clean, safe.
Burns 94% air and 6% common kero-
sene (coal oil).

The inventor, J. 0. Johnson, 609 W.
Lake St., Chicago, ”L, is offering to
‘send a lamp on 10 days’ FREE trial,
or even to give one FREE to the first
user in each locality who will help
Write him to-day

for full particulars. Also ask him to

‘ exnlain. how you can get the agency,
‘ -- and without experience or
inake 3,250 to $500 per month.

money

SALESME N
WANTED

To Sell and Install

The Pfahler Rolling
, Tooth Drive

in a Fordson Tractor; gives 25
per {cent more power with 25 per
cent less fuel. Write for particulars.‘

H. G. MOENTER, Leipsic, Ohio

Sales Manager for the State of Michigan

 

 

 

     

Let's be conservative

and tmffifal/

Being just as conservative as the
quality of Manama! Oil permits, we
submit these facts to every car owner.

MW} Oil is better than 95%
of all oils on the market. 0 a to
Oil is equal to the other 5% of Better
Oils. There are none better.

These conservative and truthful facts
can mean only one thing to the care-
ful car owner— Oil from

now 011. oh I c
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HE groWing oi’ soy-beans is up

idly developing into an import-

ant American farin industry.
This was the impression gained by at.
tending the sixth annual field meeting
of the National Soysbean Gro .. rs’ As?
sociation in Washington an vicinity,
September 1-3. Upwards 'of 600 soy-
bean enthusiasts were in attendance
from eighteen states'and Canada.

On the first day a visit was made
to" Arlington Experimental Farm,
where an extensive exhibit of soy-bean
products was shown, and the soy-bean
fields and experiments were inspected.
Seventy-five acres of the Arlington
Farm are now devoted to experimental
work in soybean growing, and more
than a thousand varieties of soy-beans
are under test. . q
The second day a meeting was held

rat Union Farm near Mount Vernon, iii

Virginia, which Was originally owned
by General George Washington, and
on which he carried on his experi-
ments in soil improvement and prac-
tical methods of farming. Union Farm
is now owned by Harvey C. Clapp,
president of’ the Virginia Crop Im-
provement Association, who is experi‘
menting with a large number of varie-
ties of soy-beans. He usually has from
seventy to seventy-five acres in soy-
beans. In addition to his seed im~
provement work, Mr. Clapp has invent-
ed a broadcast soy-bean harvester, and
a double-shovel plowing outfit that is
saving time and labor on his farm, and
is effective in keeping the land in good
tilth.

The third day was spent at the
Maryland Experiment Station, where
much experimental work has been
done with soy—beans.

In welcoming the soy-bean growers,
Dr. W. A. Taylor, chief of the bureau

Notes on th

As usual the largest attendance was
on Labor Day when Detroit turned
out.

Swine and sheep fanciers were en-
thused with the exhibits of stock in
those two departments. ‘

Professor Smith, of the University
of Purdue, declared that no better
Poland China show could be found
anywhere. We feel. particularly happy
to get this from Indiana.

A prominent Ohio sheep judge, who
covers the country from east to‘ivvest
in placing the ribbons, gave it as his
candid opinion that the Michigan show
of sheep could be excelled by none,
and that the display of Cotswolds was
particularly outstanding.

While some criticism may be justly
deserved because of a general lack of
competition in the grain and forage
department, one could but admire the
taste and skill in fitting together the
major crops of the state into one large
show. This exhibit provoked a great
deal of favorable comment, particu-
larly from non-agricultural patrons.

One lad had the misfortune to have
a fine young sow injured, and she
prematurely gave birth to six pigs.
This eleven-year—old boy stood by and,
what with rubbing and feeding, he
now has good promise that the litter
will be saved. One wonders what kind
of exhibitions these young fellows will
put on when they are in authority.

The Baby Show in the Wbmen’s
Building attracted a large crowd of
grown-ups as well as all the babies
the physicians and their attendants
could properly score. Little Bertha
Jean Douglas, of Detroit, scored 99.8,
and according to Dr. E. P. Mills, di-
rector of the contest, such a score has
been recorded only once in the seven
years the Better Baby Contest has
been conducted at the fair. Awards
for the contest were given out at the
close of the fair.

All over the grounds could be seen
fine evidence of boys’ and girls' club
work. The camps, the schools. the
live stock, the canning, dress-making,
craft work, all made one feel that club
work is finding in the fair one of the
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plant diseaSes are now under investi-

gation in his bureau, and sixty to sev—_
enty—five plant breeding projects are .

under way.- , , .

Speaking on the subject of (“haw we
got our soy-beans," Dr. C. V. Piper,
of the bureau, said that soy-beans had
been known'in this country since 1804,

but up. .until 1880 they were grown only i

in botanical gardens. About 1880 a.
few varieties were brought in from
Japan. At present there are 1,133 va-
rieties grown here, and 150 new varie-

ties have been introduced from Japan

and Korea in the last two weeks and
will be tested at Arlington. Dr. Piper
predicted that soy-beans will‘become
a. major crop in this country.
Soy-beans is the middle West’s most
valuable crop from the standpoint of
protein production, according to Pro-

. fessor J. C. Hackleman, of Illinois Col-

lege of Agriculture, who exhibited
charts showing that soy-beans outrank—
ed most other hay crops in protein,
having almost as high protein content
as alfalfa hay. This crop adapts itself
to sections and soils where other leg-
umes do not succeed, and is finding
a place on many farms that no other
crop can fill. Records of five years’
comparison tests on ~- Illinois farms
showed that soy-beans had paid a sub-
stantial profit to the grower, during
which time oats was a losing crop and
wheat and corn returned only small
margins above cost of production.
While experiments have not shown
that soy-bean ground was any better
than oat stubble as a seed-bed for
wheat in some cases, Professor Hack-
leman said he believed that if the soy-
bean ground were properly prepared
and properly inoculated, soy-beans was
a. good crop to be followed with wheat.

6 State Fair

excellence than could be done other-
wise. That these displays are the
products of a‘high degree of skill be-
comes evident when, on not a few
occasions, the youngsters take blue
ribbbns in the open classes.

The second floor of the Women’s
Building was crowded to overflowing
with evry kind of handiwork. Fem-
inine fingers had spent hours, and
even years, of time in creating the
masterpieces in needle-work. A crowd
lingered continuously about the booth
of antiques, proving that the old is
ever new and interesting.

To even those with no keen artistic
sense, the $100,000 art exhibit held
more than a usual interest. It is an
extraordinary fact that the artist can,
with his paints and brush, create a
picture of the everyday things about
us and clothe them in such natural—
ness that the picture becomes a thing
of beauty and a joy forever. The ex-
hibit of~ the New York Museum of Art
was a feast for any eye.

The Michigan State College contrib-
uted largely to the agricultural inter-
ests of the fair. The entries of live
stock—horses, cattle, hogs and sheep,
and the displays representing the ac-
tivities of the various branches of col—
lege work caught the attention of
many. How a cosmopolitan crowd
will take interest in some unusual dis-
play was observed in connection with
the veterinary exhibit of the college.

A better breed of men, women and
children was the laudable aim of the
Fitter Families—Happier Homes con‘
test. This unique department was un-
der the charge of a committee of phy~
sicians headed by Dr. Van Amber
Brown, aided by a number of eugenic
experts and officials of the Eugenics
Society of the United States of Amer-
ica. The exhibits showed in a graphic
manner that the general laws of her«

edity and health operate with human .

stock, the same as those demonstrated
at fairs in relation to plant and ani—
mal husbandry. ,

A thorough mental and physical ex-
amination was accorded each family
registered, together with tests by spe‘
cialists in psychology and psychiatry.
The first triplets. ever examined in the

seven years the contest has been con»

ducted in other states, were entered.
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3* -March.was coming to an end
rary to all traditions. The warmth-
;lifing seemed as distant as in the
it ‘of winter. It had been raining
teadily for a week, and now it had
grown colder. The gale carried a bit-
: chill and a large proportion of
sis-ct with the rain that it swept along.

Tower Z marked the half-way point
of a forty-mile spur of the Midland
grilway, running north into the an-
‘ racite'coal fields of Pennsylvania.
011 the time-tables of the system the
,g‘spur was known as the Pipestone
* Branch because of a large mine of that

I. name which stood at its head. A sol-
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direction. But the branch was a valu-
‘ able feeder because of the coal that
“it carried to the main line. It had but
. a single track.

Howard Branton, the youthful sig-
nalman at Tower Z, shivered a little
as the wind made the small room in
.which he lived and worked tremble.

‘ , Looking out from the window he was

barely able to see the green light of
the semaphore which indicated that
the track was clear ahead.

,« "Clear enough!” he muttered to him-
self, as men will who spend a large
part of their time alone. “It’s clear
enough, all right, although it doesn’t
really make a blamed bit of difference
tonight. This is one rotten hole to be
stuck away in—nothing to see, nothing
to do but wait for No. 3 and No. 6-,
which usually pass without even
whistling. The Division Super. doesn’t
know I’m alive. And they told me
railroading was a fine job for a young
fellow to work his way up in!”

Branton jabbbed savagely at the fire
in the old-fashioned stove which serv-
ed to heat the tower. Youth is the
time for companionship, and he was
lonely. He had been at Tower Z for
more than a year, and to twenty-two
a year is a long time. The fact that
back in his home town there was a
girl named Susan, who had intimated
that she could not wait too long, did
not add to his patience. Susan had
brown eyes and a very modern nature.
She felt sure that she saw the world
very clearly, and it is certain that she
demanded much—but Branton was try-
ing to put Susan out of his mind for
the present. -

It had been dark two hours now,
and No. 6 had gone by at dusk. Un-
less a sltring of coal cars came down
from the mines there was little chance
of additional work. The coal trains
ran on no definite schedule during the
night. When enough cars had been
filled, the dispatcher at the mine sent
along a Wire instructing the Tower Z
Signalman to see that the line was
clear. This, in turn, was relayed to
Tower W, which stood at the junction
with the main line. The principal
function of Tower Z was to guard
against landslides, and particularly to
watch the long trestle which carried
the track to the south.

It was just eight o’clock when Bran-
ton was summoned to his key by hear-
ing his own call repeated.

“No more freights,” said the dots
and dashes. “Thought I’d tell you, so
you could turn in. It’s a rotten night.
Title}:1 rails are coated with ice. Good
n t."

ranton returned the greeting. He
then turned toward his radio receiving
set, which had helped to lighten many
of the weary hours at the tower. Pos-
sibly Susan would be listening to the
same concert tonight, he thought, for-
getting his determination to think of
her but little. The possibility comfort-
ed him, however, and he opened an
evening paper which the crew of No.
6 had tossed to him, and looked for

the broadcasting program from Har-y

risburg and Pittsburgh.
Outside the storm was increasing in
violence. The wind crashed against

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the sides of the tower with renewed
vigor and bent huge trees growing
near by, almost to the ground. It was
a. bad night, the worst that Branton
had experienced in the course of his
year on duty. He was glad that no
trains were due. The steady clicking
of his telegraph instrument gave as-
surance, however, that the lines were
still in place. ~
_The radio program that night was
about as usual. Branton determined
to tune in for the program to be broad-
casted by a newspaper at Harrisburg.
Much was being made of the fact that
an opera company was in town that
night. Part of the performance was
to be sent on into the ether. The
twin operas, “ agliacci” and “Caval-
leria Rusticana,” were to be sung. The
tenor in the leading roles, so the ac-
count read, was Signor Sanitelli.

“All right, Signor,” said Branton to
himself as he twirled the wave-length
knob on the receiving set. “Show us
what you’ve got.”

He adjusted the ear-piece to his
head, as he seldom used the amplifier

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the answer from Tower W after Bran-
ton had described the message from
the air. “This ,storm’s raising cain
with the wires. I can’t get Altoona.
How are your own lines?”

- “Seem 0. K. so far,” said Branton.
“Let me‘ know if you hear anything.-
Relief trains may be started out, you
know." ’ .

The radio was silent for severaf anx-
ious minutes, and then: "

“Later dispatches state that the cilia
cials of Pipestone mine believe the en-
tombed men have taken refuge in an
old shaftway, and that they are alive.
The accident was caused by the col«
lapse of No. 1 shaft after an explosion
in a passage in which the night shift
was working. '

“The mine owners telephoned to A1-
toona about fifteen minutes ago (said
a still later message). They ask for
assistance in the shape of pulmotors,
doctors, and relief crews.

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men on the freights stopped in for a
brief concert on their way to the junc-
tion. The Signalman found that the
storm had affected the transmission
but little. He listened some'What im-
patiently to the bedtime stories, the
market reports, and the fashion hints.
Then came a series of news dispatch-
es. Among them was one stating that
the storm which was raging outside of
the tower had covered a large area.
Several'lives had been lost in neigh-
boring towns and villages. Finally,
the voice of the announcer explained
that the operatic performance was
about to begin. .

Branton was amazed at the clear"
ness with which he heard the pure
tones of the orchestra as the music
started. He lit a pipe and waited for
the curtain to go up. Now it seemed
as though he were actually in the
theatre at Harrisburg. The sound of
the storm faded into the background,
and the voice of Sanitelli moved him
with its beauty. Before he was well
aware of the passage of time the opera
had ended, and the last notes of the
sobbing Pagliacci had died away. Again
came the howl of the wind and the
tattoo of the sleet against the windows
of the tower. The voice of the‘ an-
nouncer stated that the usual news
dispatches would be broadcasted dur-

ing the intermission between the two,

operas. Branton jumped to his feet
as the first one sounded in his ears:

“Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 28
(it said), word has just been received
here that fifty-eight men are buried in
the Pipestone mine, which is located
about fifty miles north of Altoona in
the anthracite coal fields."

The Signalman hurried over to his
telegraph key after throwing into po-
sition his radio amplifier, so that he
would not have to depend on the ear-
piece. He broke into the circuit and
called the junction. ‘

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speed locomotive and two coaches. It
should reach the mine in about two
hours.”

Branton again rushed to the tele-
graph key in the corner. Operas, as
far as he was concerned, were over
for the night. The relief train would
necessarily run over the Pipestone
Branch and past his own signal tower.
It would follow the main line of the
Midland for forty-five miles. This part
of the journey should take about an
hour. Then would cOme the switch to
the branch on the last leg of the trip.
The grade from the junction was a.
descending one. Here the train could
travel from sixty to seventy miles an
hour despite the ice on the rails.

“Notice to all signalmen and dis-
patchers,” came, a message just as
Branton reached his key:

“Special train leaves Altoona at 9:55
Eastern standard time, for mine dis-
aster at Pipestone field. Has right of
way over all other traffic. Tower man
at Z will—”

Here the instrument gave a final
click. The Signalman tried frantically
to get the connection again. But the
wires were cold; evidently the lines
were down at some point between the
chief dispatcher’s office at Altoona and
Tower Z. He swore to think that the
break had occurred just as he was to
receive vital instructions. He was glad
to remember that his radio set was
still, apparently, in working order. At
least he would get some idea of what
was going on by means of the dis-
patches which would probably contin-
ue from the newspaper office at Har—
risburg. The sound of the wind and
the storm sent a chill of apprehension
down the young man’s back.

The broadcaster at Harrisburg sent
a final message stating that the spe«
cial train had just left Altoona and
that “with one hundred volunteer
workers, ten physicians, and twenty-
five nurses, it is now roaring through
the storm on its errand of mercy.”

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The detonations, which reminded him-
of artillery fire, first mailehim think
that part of the mountain was hearing
down on the tower. He started for
the door; but then the sounds ceased

The signalman glanced in the direc-
tionvof his telegraph key to see, wheth-
er by some miracle, connection had
been reestablished. But no, signal
came from the wire. Taking down “a
flashlight from a shelf he opened the
door of the tower and was almost
thrown back ,into the room by the
force of the wind. With the gale blow-
ing full in his face, he groped his way

. down the ice-coated track to the tres~

tle across the ”ravine, which was about
a hundred yards distant. His worst
fears were realized. .Part of an over-
hanging blufi had slipped away, due

to undermining by the constant rain

and the battering of the wind. The
rear end of the trestle had been
crumpled and now lay twisted in the
gorge. The single tradk of the Pipe-
stone Branch ended in mid-air.

——-With one hundred volunteer work--

ers, ten physicians, and twenty-five
nurses on board. the special train is
now roaring through the rain and wind
on its errand of, mercy——

The last dispatch from Harrisburg
had throbbed through his mind. The
special was due at Tower W at the
junction Within an hour, and once the
onrushing train had turned into the
branch line no power on earth could
stop it from plunging off the end of
the shattered trestle and crashing into
the gorge with all on board. ,

For a moment Branton considered
the possibility of building a fire, of
burning the signal tower itself, in the
hope that the glare against the sky
might warn the engineer of the spe‘
cial that disaster lay ahead. Then he
remembered that the track curved just
before the trestle, and that a steep
cliff obscured the view. The special,
coasting on the downgrade from the
junction, would be running at fearful
speed. The Signalman again groped
his way to the side of the gorge and
stood peering into the darkness. The
nearest bridge was two miles above,
and the first house on his side of the
canyon even farther. By the time that
he could reach a telephone it might
be too late. And, besides, the first
duty of the tower guard was to re-
main at his post.

He hurried back to his tiny office,
but the wires were still silent. Bran-
ton could not get connections in either
direction.

The situation, he reflected, was
hopeless. A long-abandoned mining
company had damned the stream al-
most opposite the tower, and because
of this obstruction a deep body of wa—
ter a hundred yards across and a half
mile long, had been formed. The tres-
tle was just below the dam. Help
might lie across the stream; but Bran-
ton had no boat, and he could not
swim well enough to get’across in that
way. The only boat he knew of was
moored on the other side. The Fates
seemed to have considered every fac-
tor and thrown them all against him.
Branton knew that to clamber down
below the dam would be suicidal, for
the precipitous rocks were coated with
ice. To go around the headwaters of
the dam would take too long. The
spring freshets meant that a full head
of water was thundering over the dam,
so he could not walk across that. And
besides, came the ever-present remind-
er from the code of the tower man;
he could not leave his-post for more
than a very few minutes!

While Branton had been out of the
tower, the second of the two operas
had started. An audience at the Har-

(Continued on page 257).

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that the gospels wOuld be the
earliest books of the New Testa-

ment to be written. But on thinking

of it again, it will be seen why this
is not so. The first converts to Chris-
tianity thought that Christ would re-
turn very soon. Firét Thessalonians,
which is the lesson for this week,

dwells on this. See chapter four of 1'

Thessalonians, verses 15 to 18. As

long as the Lord was expected to come

back within the lifetime of men then
living, it was not necessary to write

His life. But as that first generation

got older, and some of the eye wit-

nesses were passing away, activity in
writing recollections of the Christ’s
teaching began.
But before this,
written here and

letters had been
there about the
Christian life,'and
how to be ready
for the Lord on
His return. The
first of these was
almost certainly
the first letter to
the p e o p I e at
Thessalonica. The
two epistles are
W very simple and
direct. There is no attempt to discuss
deep questions of theology. It has
been called “the first love-letter to the
churches.”

Says a writer, “The style of the let-
ters bears evidence of its early origin.
It contains no lengthy elaboration of
doctrine, and scarcely any reference
to the many evils which speedily
sprang up in the church.” In reading
over the lesson for this week, one feels
the note of tenderness and love. “Ye
know how we dealt with each of you,
as a father with his own children, ex-
horting you, and encouraging you.”

 

HIS little book contains many ex-

pressions which are commonly re-
ferred to, but the best passage of all,
to my thinking, is at the end of the
fifth chapter. “See that none render
to anyone for evil; but always follow
after that which is good, one toward
another, and toward all. Rejoice al-
ways; pray without ceasing; in every-
thing give thanks; for this is the Will
of God in Christ Jesus to you-ward.
spirit; despise not
prophesyings; prove all things; hold
fast that which is good; abstain from
every form of evil.”

Paul begins by speaking of his
thanksgiving. He is in a happy mood.
He writes as if he were the president
of the Standard Oil Company, and his
salary had been raised fifty per cent.
He begins all his letters in the same
way. One might say, “Is there no way
in which to cut down this man’s sup-
ply of happiness? Is there no end to
his buoyancy?” It doesn’t look that
way. He is always on top, always on
the crest of the waves, never in the
trough of the sea. How does he do it?

Well, for one thing, he is certain of
the truth of what he teaches and pro-
fesses. He is as certain that Jesus
Christ lived, died, rose and lives as
God, as that he himself is alive. On
top of that, he is certain that he has
had a direct personal experience with
the Living Christ. In all these re-
spects may not our experience he the
similar to him?

NOTHER factor is, that Paul is

forever-thinking of others, not of
himself. Read this letter, as evidence.
In thinking of others, planning for
them, praying for them, writing to
them, he found the secret of happi-
ness, or at least one of the secrets,

which consists in forgetting yourself—

in behalf of others. We also can do
that. Paul ‘was not like the woman
who gave atea party:

I “gave a little tea-party
This .afternoon at three.

’Twas very small, three guests in all,

Just I, myself and” me.
Myself ate up the sandwiches,
While I drank up the tea;
'Twas also I who ate the pie,
And passed the cake to me.
Alice Freeman Palmer was the pres-

ident of. one of the eastern colleges
for wOmen. She was a remarkable
woman, with a radiant personality.
She gave some time each summer to
a vacation school for slum children.
One hot morning she got to the school
and found a room full of girls, each
girl caring for a baby brother or sis-
ter,’ some with more than one. Said
Mrs. Palmer, “What shall I talk about
this morning?”

A small, pale, heavy-eyed girl
with a large fat baby on her knee
spoke up.
said she.

“The tears rushed to my eyes, says
Mrs. Palmer, as she tells the story.
“Happy in such surroundings as those

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in which this child lived! Probably
dirty and foul smelling. Happy with
burdens too hard to bear! Yet the

others all echoed the words.

“Yes, tell us how to be happy.”

“Well,” said I, “I will give you three
rules for being happy; but mind, you
must promise to keep them for a week
and not miss a single day.” So they
all solemnly promised.

“The first rule is that you will com-
mit something to memory every day,
something good. It needn’t be very
much, three or four words will do, a
bit of poem or a Bible verse.” I was
so afraid they wouldn’t, but a little
girl in the back of the room jumped
up and cried,

“I know; you want us to learn some-
thing we’d be glad‘ to remember if we
went blind.” ,

“That‘s it exactly!” I said. “Some-
thing you would be glad to remember
if you went blind."

She then gave them the next other
two rules, warning them not to skip
a single day. The second was, to look
for something pretty every day; a
flower, a cloud, a child or something.
And the third rule—do something for
somebody every day. “And mind, don’t
skip a day!”

HE last of the week it was hotter

than ever and she was going

along a narrow, dirty street when
she was grabbed by the arm and a
little voice said, “I done it.”

“Did what?” I exclaimed, looking
down and seeing a very small girl with
a fat baby in her arms.

“What you told us to, and I never
skipped a day, neither.”

“Oh, now I know what you mean.
_Put down the baby and let’s talk about
1t.” So down on the sidewalk went
the baby, and we talked.

“Well, it was awful hard, but I never
skipped a day. It was all right when
I could go to the park, but one day it
rained, and the baby had a cold, and
I Just couldn’t go out, and I thought
sure I was goin’ to skip, and I was
standin’ at the window, most cryin’
and I. saw”—and her face brightened
up _w1th a smile—“I saw a sparrow
takln’ a bath in the gutter that goes
’round the top of the house, and he
had on a black neck tie and he was
handsome.”

“And then another day,” the child
continued, “Then I thought I would
have to skip, sure. There wasn’t an-
other thing to look at in the house.
The baby was sick, and I couldn’t go
out and I was feelin’ terrible, when”—~
here she caught me by both hands, and
the most radiant look came into her
face—«“1 saw the baby’s hair!”

“Saw the baby’s hair!”

_“Yes, a little bit of sun came in the
Window, and I saw his hair, and I’ll
never. be lonesome any more.” And
catching up the baby from the side-
walk she said, “See,” and I, too, saw
the baby’s hair. “Isn’t it beautiful?”
she asked.

“Yes, it is beautiful,” I answered.

I have abbreviated this from a re-
cent number of McClure’s, though it
has been told before.

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR
SEPTEMBER 20.

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HE course of our daily life runs

along smoothly and, as a rule,

we take things as they come, but
on some occasions a bit of informa-
tion, statistically compounded, brings
us up with a jolt and we wonder if
this even, steady trend of life is pur-
suing its course in the right direction,
or possibly at the right speed in the
right direction.

But these facts regarding our Pil-
grim mothers have recently come to
light. Between 1701 and 1745 there
were 418 graduates from Yale who
married. What happened to their
wives? Thirty-three died before they
reached the quarter-century .mark,
fifty-five died before they were thirty-
five years old, and fifty-nine died be-
fore they were forty-five years of age.
Those 418 husbands lost 147 wives
before middle age.

And Harvard was no better. The
class of 1671, which was a typical one,
graduated eleven students, one of
which died a bachelor. Of the remain-
ing, four were married twice and two
were married three times. For ten
husbands, therefore, there were eight-
een wives. Because of the work and
hardship of those pioneer days, women
were short-lived and it took two or
three mothers to bring up a family.

It has been truly said that the
height of any civilization can be meas-
ured by the plane upon which its wom-
en live. Judging from this standard,
we have made great progress, but we

 

Mother Would Appreciate an Electric
Range.

have not made as great a stride as we
should, nor has that progress been
rapid enough.

The average home lacks many con-
veniences to save much hard work
and drudgery for mother, and liberate
her time for the care of the home and
her children, and her own personal
recreation.

Motors, either electrical or gasoline,
cost only a few cents an hour to run,
and yet mothers use their valuable
time doing the work that a motor
could do at coolie wages.

The time when a mother can exert
her influence in a child’s life is brief.
A great philosopher once said, “Give
me a child until he is seven years old
and I care not who has him after-
ward.” Then it is a pity that long
hours of a mother’s time must be giv-
en to washing, ironing, sweeping and
cleaning by methods little improved
over our mother’s of two or three cen-
turies ago.

The use of a motor with attachments

Con venimce: Lilemte- Motfier’ s

shortens the time 'and labor of wash
day, it makes sweeping and cleaning
easy. There is no aching of arms and
back when the churning is finished.
Then, if we add to these motor con-
veniences, running water and a prac-
tical heating plant, we are adding

.days to the lives of mothers, giving

them time to devote to their real work
-—motherhood.

WA'l'ER THE BULB BEDS IN DRY
WINTERS.

 

ULBS are not planted outside‘until

October for the best rooting, for if
planted too early they are likely to
start growth before freezing up for the
winter, and this is not desirable. They
need to begin rooting promptly after
being planted, for on their rooting de-
pends their successful blooming, so I
water my bulb beds well at once if
they are at all dry. If the winter is a
dry one they will need watering again
perhaps, for there should be no check
in the rooting until ground' freezes.
I water enough later so I will be sure
they have good growing conditions

Mothers and Meters

sze for Her All-Important 105

when the soil thaws out in the spring.
They will get a good start and will be
the stronger in plant and bloom for
this care. --—A. H.

POISON THE FLY!

 

WHAT greater pest for the. busy
, housewife from spring until late
fall, than the little, disagreeable, un-
sanitary, annoying fiyl

On the farm most of the flies breed
around the barns. Large quantities
can be killed by swabbing the sides of
the barn with a mixture of one table-
spoon of lead arsenate, white— arsenic
or Paris green tincture in one pint of
syrup. '

Of all the poisons for killing flies,
formaldehyde is probably the best, but
it must be kept away from children.
Use two tablespoons of it with a cup
of milk, one of water, and a little
brown sugar. Fill a glass tumbler with
this solution, then place a piece of
blotting paper on a saucer and invert
the saucer over the tumbler, then hold-
ing the saucer down tightly, quickly
turn the tumbler over and you will

School Perplexities

Or

“Where Will t/ze School Teacher Board?"

By HazelaB. Girard

ACATION time has reached its

omega; the alpha of a new school

,year has dawned. Once again,
Old Glory floats over the red and the
white school-houses that dot America.
School bells ring and the voices of
children set the air vibrating with the
joyousness of youth.

The ringing of the school bell will
always be euphonious to our ears. It
carries us back to our own school days
when we parked our gum under the
initialed, carved desks. Each passing
year, we are more grateful to our
childhood guardians who saw to it that
we were well schooled—or else our
hearts take on a deeper sense of re-
morse that we were among the unfor-
tunate ones who quit school too soon.
After all, the reasons for quitting were
vely obvious ones.

What a blessing that it has been
realized at last that the uneducated
men and women—the “might—have-
beens,” by so much hold back the pro-
gress of our great country.

The long pigtails and floating curls
have become passe. The convenient
bob has been substituted. The girl
with the natural, honest—to-goodness
curls will be remembered as the queen
of the lot. Remember how she used
to sit at noon, while those curls were
fondled, combed and recurled? No
more do we behold the Vieing Scotch
plaid, the flowered and water-colored
ribbons. They have been relegated
into mere memories with the erstwhile
slate and indispensable “slate rag.”

Everyone knows at last just who the
new teacher is, where she came from,
whether her hair is raven or auburn,
whether her frocks are abbreviations
or happy mediums, and now that big
question, “Where will teacher board ?”
is to be solved. ,

Have you ever stopped to think just
how much that means to us and to our

 

 

 

children? Certainly, we house our
presidents and governors well. Their
palatial rendezvous are matters of na-
tional and state pride—but how about
those civic instructors to whom we
send our children for more than half
their waking hours?

Too often the best homes in the
community are closed to her because
the owners do not need her board
money. In consequence, she is forced
to seek abode elsewhere—where the
need of filthy lucre is dominant. '

I once read the ‘diary of a rural
school teacher. It was a laughable
epistle, but nevertheless pitiful. If that
diary were published, it would awaken

many people to their obligations, it '

would arouse many communities to the
immensity of the question—“Where
will teacher board?”

Each morning in the golden autumn,
the blizzardy winter and budding
spring, this little teacher was forced
to partake of pancakes and soggy, hur-
ried—up oatmeal. The pancakes were
of the greasy variety that she could
still taste at the first recess. The
lunch was always a replica of the pre-
vious day’s one—no change, no dainti-
ness, no planning.

Certainly, it should behoove any
comfortably-situated family not to
“turn down” the teacher. When she
is enticed to your door by the soft look
of your curtains, the quietude of your
front porch, and the delicious aroma
of your cooking as it percolates into
the adjacent air, think twice before
you answer negatively.

Somebody must board the teacher.
Whoever does it should do it well. It
is both a privilege and an obligation.

Let us endeavor to make this school
year a prolific one.
to the new teacher the glad hand of
welcome? Have you responded to the
first Parent-Teachers’ meeting?

HaVe you given.

 

have a self-feeding poisoner that will
prove effective. —-Mrs. B. S .’

 

MEDITATIONS "FROM THE.
KITCHEN.

 

Eliza Ann says that if the second-
baby could come first, it would save
mothers a lot of worry.

 

It’s funny how short some folks’
memories are. After they get a new
closed car they can’t see how anyone
can enjoy riding in an open one.

 

W lze‘n Autumn Come:

HE advent of autumn brings

with it the end of many of
our fresh vegetables, but the
home cook should see .to it that
vegetables still hold a prominent
place in the menu she plans for
her family for the fall and
throughout the year.

For our contest this week,
send me three of your choicest
menus you serve in the fall.
Five handy rubber kitchen ap-
rons will be given for the five
best letters.

Send your letters, before Sep-

~ tember 25, to Martha Cole,
Michigan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.

 

 

 

It gives one a. funny feeling to see
somebody working in the garden in
the very same kind of a dress you’ve
been saving for a party.

 

The family tells me I have “caster-
itus” because everything in the kitch-
en has been put on casters—Mrs. E.
’M. C.

 

 

Household Service

 

 

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GRAPE JUICE FOR WINTER.

 

Please tell me how to make grape
juice for winter. —Mrs. T. M.
Fill

Wash and stem ripe grapes.
can half full of grapes. Add quarter-
cup of sugar and fill the can with hot
water.

Place rubber, spring wire, but not

bale of jar, place in water bath and '

process for thirty minutes. Remove
and seal.

This makes a concentrated grape
juice which can be diluted, and is

most refreshing.

coon BEET RELISH.

 

How do you make beet relish—Mrs;
J. J. D.

The following is a very good beeii
relish:

1 qt. minced cooked Dapper
beets 1 Yb. salt
1 qt. minced cabbage ta tsp. cayenne pepper
1 cup grated 110% tsp. pepper '
2 cups sugar 1 qt. vinegar
39 cup minced green

Drain part of the juice from the re]-
ish after it has stood for twenty-four
hours, and can. This relish need not
be cooked.

 

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housewives did know beans was
,pmven 'by thebean recipe con-

:test this week. Recipes centributed

showed. how to use beans in _more‘
thanks. score .of appetizing ways. I
thank every reader for their part in
the generous’ response to the contest.
If your recipe is not among the prize\
winners, don’t be discouraged, for it
may be printed later. .

The three cther prize winners were
Mrs. A. C. C., of Ypsilanti; Mrs. M.
L. S., of Litchfleld, and Mrs. E. G. W.,

of Grand Rapids—Martha Cole.

I

, Bean Loaf.

Wash and drain one pound of dry
beans. Place them in a. saucepan and
cover with plenty of cold water. Add
an onion stuffed with cloves, salt, a
bay leaf, and a half teaspoon of
thyme. Cook until the beans are ten-
der, then put through the food chop«
per, season with salt, pepper, one-half
cup of tomato catsup, two pimentoes,
and the whites of two hard-boiled eggs
chopped fine. Form into a loaf, brush
with the white of an egg and sprinkle
with bread crumbs. Bake three quar-
ters of an hour.

Bean Croquettes.

Chop two onions fine and fry until
transparent, but not brown. Mix with
two cups of cooked beans that have
been put through a sieve. Shape into
croquettes, dip into beaten egg, roll
in bread crumbs, and fry in hot fat.
Serve with creole sauce made by stir-
ring one tablespoonful of fiourwith
one tablespoon of fat in a saucepan,
and adding one cup of canned toma-
toes, one chopped onion, one-half cup
of chopped green peppers, and salt.
Bean Fritters.

2 cups mashed beans 2 Well beaten eggs
1 chopped onion Salt. pepper

Fry onions in a tablespoon of beef
suet, mix with other ingredients, and
drop by spOonfuls into hot fat. Fry to
a golden brown—Mrs. C. J. P., Scott-
ville, Mich.

Creamed Beans.

1 pt. cooked beans 1 tb. sugar
1 pt. tomatoes 2 chopped onions
1 cup sweet cream Salt. pepper

Mix together and bake for one-half
hour.

Hopin’ John Beans.

’51 lb. bacon
1 sweet pepper

1 pt. rice
Two cups mashed beans
1 pt. red beans

Cook beans until nearly tender, then
add the remaining ingredients and
bake in the oven until nearly dry.
Serve with slices of bacon grouped in
the center.

Kidney Beans with Bacon.

Cook one pint of kidney beans until
tender, with three slices of bacon.
Season with salt and pepper, serve
on a, platter with a nest of crisp bacon
in center—Mrs. S. B., Blissfield, Mich.

ONLY TEN MINUTES TO SPARE.

 

(Continued from page 252).
risburg Opera House sat warm and
dry and unconcerned, while a train
rushed on to destruction in an effort
to save.the entombed miners.

The signalman was out of breath
from 1118' battle with the storm, and
weary With a feeling of horror that he
must stand idly by, powerless to help,
when the rushing train crashed off the
trestle. Finally he dropped into a
chair. In doing so his hand brushed
against the knob that controlled the
wave-length mechanism. The singing
had Just started, but instead of the
bell-like tones of Signor Sanitelli, a
peircing, Wailing screech came from
the horn. ,

Branton recalled that on previous
occasions the amplifier had given
forth loud and raucous tones when the
wave-length apparatus had been im-
properly adjusted. Suddenly he con-
ceived the idea of utilizing the wierd
sound.

Only a short distance on the other
side of the dam was a house, but it
had seemed as remote as the poles, be-
cause of the barriers in the way. In
it livedra man named Tompkins, a
somewhat eccentric character, who
had made good in the days when min-
ing had been more a matter of indi-
vidual hard work and luck. His home

, was crude butcomfortable and, most

  

important Of all, "as Branton; recalled,
hefhad a telephone and the telephone

.Jwire's might stillbe intact. Moreover,
he ownedrthe solitary boat an the oth— .

er~side. . _

Feverishly Branton took down a coil
of double-strand telegraph wire from
the wall. He attached the ends to the
receiving set and ran headlong into
the night, this. time with the amplifier
in his arms. Unrolling the Wire as he
went, he hastened along the track to
the edge of the gorge. He quickly ad-
justed the wires to the horn.

“If only Sanitelli will yell his head
off now!” he muttered to himself as
he dashed back to the tower and
tw-irled the knob on the radio set.
Faintly, because of the fact that the
wind was blowing against the sound,
he heard a wailing and screeching
from the born. The signalman hurried

outside again, taking with him two '

small chairs, a can of kerosene and an
armful of dry kindling wood.

Across the water, carried by the
gale, the wild sounds from the ampli-
fier swept out into the night. Branton
hastily piled his kindling wood on the
ground and soaked it with the oil. Us-
ing his body to shield the flame of a
match from the wind, he ignited the
pile, and in a moment flames were
leaping ten feet into the air. On top
of the blaze he threw the chairs. He
hesitated for a moment to listen, and
wished that a more powerful singer
had been engaged by the Sanitelli Op-

era Company, a soprano with a high— .

pitched voice, or Caruso at his best.

“If only Tompkins will come out of
his cabin and look across the stream!”
cried Branton aloud, as if in prayer,
as he again returned to his post at the
tower. His wires connecting with the
outside world were still dead. It seem-
ed as though an hour had passed since
he had heard the roar of the land-
slide. Half afraid, he looked at his
watch and was relieved to find that it
was only ten-ten. The special would
still be forty-five minutes in reaching
the junction. The door of the tower
opened and Branton leaped to greet
Tompkins, who stood, holding an car
in his hand, dripping with rain and
melting sleet, and watching him as
though convinced of the signalman’s
insanity.

“What in blazes,” he demanded, “is
the matter with you? I near got
drowned crossin’ that pond in the
storm. But I hears that racket and
looks out o’ the window, and then 1
secs your fire. Are you celebratin’ a
raise in pay or are you drunk?”

“The trestle’s down,” burst out
Branton.

“So that’s what happened a little
while ago? I thought I heard a lot 0’
.noise.”

“Yes, and you’ve got to help. Is
your ’phone working?”

“It’s workin’ right enough,” said the
old man, still puzzled and unimpress-
ed; “but what gets you so het up?
Supposin’ the durned trestle is down?
They ain’t no more trains tonight, is
there?”

“But there is a train,” answered
Branton. “There’s trouble up at the
mines. A special’s on the way. My
wires are down, so that I can’t get the
junction—I can’t get any place at all.
The train will start on its way here
from Tower W in less than an hour.
You’re the last chance. Tell the tele-
phone operator to try for Altoona and
the junction. If you don’t get either,
try to get the \Vestinghouse radio
plant at Pittsburgh. Then tell them
to broadcast this message at once, and
to wire all other plants to send it out
also. And hurry, hurry!”

He scribbled a message on a tele-
graph blank and rushed Tompkins,
suddenly galvanized to action, out of
the door. There was only a chance,
a very faint chance, that the plan
would work. But Tompkins would act
swiftly and with intelligence, the sig-
nalman knew, for the man had gone
through several mine disasters him-
self, and would be spurred on by the
plight of the entombed men.

“I got ’em, boy, I got ’em,” came
a triumphant call some minutes later
from the doorway, and Branton turned
from his useless telepragh key to grasp
the miner’s hand.

“I gave the girl at the exchange
your message,” he said. “I said to
burn the wires to Pittsburgh. I got
the Westinghouse plant inside of three
minutes after she’d said the Altoona
wires was down, and no answer came
from the junction.

“ ‘I’m talkin' for Tower Z of the Mid«
land-Pipestone Branch,’ I says to ’em.
‘They’s been a landslide,’ I says, ‘The
wires is down.
for the cave-in up to the mines, and
will (run off a busted trestle unless
she’s stopped pronto. We can’t get
to the junction to warn ’em. If you
folks’ll broadcast this.here message

(Continued on page 257).

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~By Ruth Bishop, M. 0., Henderson,
Michigan.
, Yes, cross-word puzzles are bene-
‘ flcial. Successfully working out cross-
' word puzzles, more than any similar
amusement that any writer can recall,
satisfies a long list of the fundamental
desires of mankind. Included in this
list are social distinction; group by
alty, cooperation, competition, pleas-
ure, play, amusement, humor, curios-
ity, activity, and constructiveness. .
Social distinction is the reward of
one who the most skillfully and most
quickly solves a difficult puzzle on
which other puzzle addicts are work-
ing. Group loyalty and cooperation
are manifested in the bonds that join
puzzle fans, no matter how widely
their other interests may differ. Any-
one who has ever worked a cross-word
puzzle will admit that it satisfies the
desire for competition, play, pleasure,
and amusement. Humor finds its way
into the game in many .ways—some-
times by the far-fetched definitions

 

 

Loyd Van Sickle, of Hart, With ‘His
Pet Calves.

that are given for the missing words.
Curiosity, activity, and constructive-
ness, unquestionably, are displayed by
everyone who tries a puzzle.

Also, cross-word puzzles increase the
vocabulary. When One learns a word
once, he does not forget it easily.

Cross—word puzzles are about the
only means of amusement for prison-
ers, insane people, etc. What would
these people do without the cross—word
puzzles?

So, I say, "Let the cross-word puzzle
stay!"

 

By Frank Van Tassell, M. 0., Hart,
Michigan.

The cross-word puzzle is a very for-
midable looking object to me, espe-
cially when it contains very many
squares. But the very formidableness
of it should cause us to attack and
solve it. And my reason is that it re-
quires hard thinking to do it.

Habitual hard thinking is what we
need, and what we must do, to de-
velop brain efficiency. Of course, we
must not neglect other activities, for
the results would be very unsatisfac
tory in regard to our daily duties. We
must confine cross-word puzzles entire-
ly to our spare time, and be equally
ambitious in our other interests. But
we are not apt to become so infatu-
ated as to disregard these other things.

The nature of cross-word puzzles is
educational and impressive, so that
what we learn from them sticks per-
manently in our memory. And this
knowledge which is acquired from
them is useful in almost any common
need. They are within the reach of

 

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as she.

all the cousins?

ing the measles.
great?
don’t wish for ’em.

Frank, and Would be
face to face any time.
come here to see me.
tation.
to come and see you ye . ,

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By Prize
nearly everyone, and in general favor
everywhere. 7

If we let cross-word puzzles occupy
our mind, instead of allowing it to
dwell, perhaps, on harmful thoughts,
'or in reading every book, good or bad,
that we find, we will be doing a deed
very beneficial to ourselves. They are
a form of clean amusement, while at
the same time, they are a brain build-
er', so let’s apply our M. C. motto to
them, and watch for good results.

 

THE ADVANTAGES OF HANDICAPS.
TO OVERCOME IS TO WIN.

 

I HAVE been a silent reader of the
boys’ and girls’ page for a long
time. A letter some time ago attract-
ed my attention. That person, a girl,
I think, complained of being poor and
having no chance to work out her am-
bition. May I say she is having the
best opportunity for a beginning. That
girl does not understand it that way,
but those who have suffered poverty,
I think, have an advantage over those
who have always lived in luxury, for
the reason that it gives them a foun-
dation for ambition and something to
work for. Even though we may not
have material articles, we are building
in us something that will be of service
to our country as well as ourselves.
Though we often get discouraged,
We always have something to be glad
about if we but look for them. Lin-
coln, our greatest president, was the

  

       
   

       
   

Winners-

poorest of farmer lads. When he ,was
splitting rails he was forming the
foundation of his career. »

If we think of what we have, instead
of what we haven’t,_we would feel
much better and would make it pleas-
anter for mother and dad.

Is it any wonder mothers get gray?

Sis wants this, and brother must have
that, and baby must have something
else. Is there any mother who doesn’t
sacrifice herself for her children?
Doesn’t she always try to give them
‘all the pleasures she can, and doesn’t
she always work her life away for
them? Why are they so ungrateful to
her? So, Merry Circlers, be cheerful,
thoughtful and ambitious. Be thank~
ful for what you have, and help ma
and dad to make both ends meet.

Poverty isn’t a crime, after all. Mon-
ey has ruined many a young man and
woman. There are more beautiful
things in the world. It is the basis of
nearly all crime. If we had not money
our prisons would not be so full. Our
country would not have to spend so
much every year for protection.

If ambition isn’t worth working for,
it isn’t worth having. Do your duty
to make your home a happy one. Moth-
er has a hard time. Do your bit to
make it easier for her. It is a duty
which belongs to us all. They sacri-
fice all for us. Let us show our appre-
ciation by, not finding fault because
we haven’t what we want—Florence
Ford. .

 

 

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Dear Uncle Frank:

I agree with Arlene Campeau about

us going back on you, if you weren’t
very good looking.
flock of letters would come to you, all ,
saying they would write you, no mat-
ter what you looked like.

I do wish a whole

Say! Bob is a swellwriter, isn’t

I would like to write as well

If you keep from telling what you

look like, and your name, I guess I
can, too—Oriole.

You have my name. If you wanted

to send me a hundred dollars, I would
get it, but if I wanted to thank you
for it, Uncle Sam would not know
Which Oriole’s nest to put it in.
is a good writer.

Bob

 

Dear Uncle Frank or What?

Well, how is my Uncle “What” and
I just got over hav-
Aren't they just
You who haven’t had ’em,
I sure was sick.
Say, I’m not afraid of you, Uncle
glad to meet ‘you
You might
That’s an invi-
I haven’t had any invitation

Say, don’t you ever get tired of re-

ceiving all these crazy letters from us,
or do you find them interesting? I
sure enjoy reading them when they
are in print. We usually get our paper
on Friday, and if I get the mail I hand
the rest of it out, but keep the Michi-
gan Farmer and run off and read our
page the first thing.

Won’t you please let us know when
your picture is in the paper?

We can get over a little disappoint-
ment, but my curiosity is growing big—
ger and bigger.

I hope somebody’s letter you receiv-
ed before mine gave W. B. such a ter-
rible stomach ache that he won’t want

to eat mine, not even nibble it.

Please print this, pretty please-
Your loving niece, Una Crandall, M. C.,
Newaygo, Mich.

I’ve had both kinds of measles, so I
know all about them. How do I know
who has seen me and knows my name?
Well, “What” is as good as anything.
Why be afraid of me? My picture was
in the paper in 1913 and 1924. I have
not been arrested since, so I have re-
ceived no special notoriety. There is
an open invitation for all to come and
see me.

 

Uncle Frank Reading the Evening
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Dear. Uncle Frank and Cousinsz.

What have you been doing this sum-
mer? I suppose Just reading leads up—
on loads of letters. -

I wish you were with me on our
farm, picking cherries and raspberries,
and maybe sometimes .helping mania

7 and I with the dishes. There is such
a lot of them.

I am going to do my. best this month-
to help raise the M. 0. Fund to $200.
I think that buying this radio. is the
best thing we can do. I know it will
please the children at the Sanitarium.

Uncle Frank, have you ever been to
a circus? I was to the Greatest Show
on Earth this summer. It was the. Bar-
num & Bailey and Ringling Brothers
Shows combined. It surely was great.

I can remember seeing your picture,

eyes a d h flat, darkAhair, bfllue
, 11 very an some. ml ri t?
Ha! Ha. g

0h! Horrors! I sure wish you were
here now. Mama has left me all of
the dishes to do. I can work out on
the farm, and I like to do most of the
housework, but dishes—they sure get
my goat.

We have three boys and two girls
staying at our place picking fruit. In
the evenings we surely do have good
times, The boys are doing some prank
every minute. I suppose you never
got into mischief when you were
young, did you?

I’d send you a picture with my
knlckers on, and a. boy and my sister
if you wouldn’t be shocked.

Love. to Uncle Frank and all my
cousms—Marguerite Kerr, R. 2, Shel-
by, Mich.

I’m sorry I’m not there to help with
those dishes. I’ll take wiping for mine.
You can wash them. No, I never got
into mischief when I was young. Ask
my Ma. ’

 

Dear Uncle Frank and M. C.’s:

I have been a silent reader for over
three years, and often~times laughed
at the difference of opinions of the
boys and girls. Yes, I put the boys
first; I think boys belong first. They
have been first in everything, even on
earth, (unless it was monkeys, which
Mr. Scopes tried

disappointed. .

Say, Uncle Frank, if I was to try to
find you or send a friend to find you,
where should I look~—in the "Advisory
staff or in the “Associate Editors’
Staff?”

I am quite certain it would be in
one. Am I right?

.Oh, it’s _eleven bells right now, and
time, I think, all respectable want—to-
be M. C.’s should be in bed.——With
love to all, “Peter.”

Another girl with a boy’s name. My
name is not in the Advisory Staff, so
it must be somewhere else. I just hope
the M. C.’s would not go back on me
if I showed my face.

 

Dear Uncle Frank:

I bet you did not even know who
this 18. Well, it is no wonder. I have
done nothing but extend the time for
writing, but at last the time has come.

It is very busy around here. I have
to work in a dairy with an output of
seventy-five gallons of milk daily, and
then work on a seventy-acre farm with
my father, so you can imagine that I
am all in at night. ”

Please find enclosed a small part of
a dollar for the fund.

I will say good-bye now, hoping Un-
cle Frank won’t receive any wooden
nickels.——Your loving cousin, George

..Van Zytveld, M. C.

I don't blame you for putting off
writing if you are all in. every night.
It is nice to be busy all the time, but

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the. million-dollars if we had it.

1 Of ioburse; perhaps we’ll never getthat
, much, but it isijust' a-day dream. And
. I love. dreams. .

If I had a million dollars I’d keep it

I till I. passed the. voting age;- Then I
. would have a lovely home built.’ I

would have a yard containing a place

_to play'base ball, fopt ball, tennis, and

everything dear to the heart of a boy.
I’d also have a fine barn, with all kinds
of pets.

“Who would live in this home?”_I
hear you ask. ‘fWell, I would take all_
the orphan boys I could find, to live
there. We would raise farm crops,
fruit and flowers. Then we’d invite
you, Uncle Frank, to come to dinner
with us, and we’d treat you on fruit
salad and apple pie. And, oh, Uncle,
we'd cover you with flowers. Let’s
hear how someone else would use a
million dollars. Best wishes, "Wild-

. flower.”

Say, I'm going to dream about that
fruit salad and apple pic, but getting
covered with flowers is another: thing.
Please don’t, because it reminds me of
a funeral. I really don’t think I'm a
dead one, yet. Maybe you think that

‘I would gormandize myself so with

salad and pie that I would need flow-
ers afterward.

 

VACATION CONTEST.

 

HAVE just returned from my vaca-
tion and have had enough to fur-
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the summer months. Some may have
taken nice trips, others probably stay-
ed at home and worked. But, I believe
most all have had some experiences
which are worth telling. Therefore,
this contest. Tell us, in about 250
words, or less, the interesting things
you did this summer.

Ten prizes will be given; the first
two, handy school pencil boxes; the
next three, dictionaries; and the next
five, pocket knives. All who write
interesting stories of their summer’s
experience will get Merry Circle mem-
berships if they are not new members
of the Circle. The contest closes on
October 3. Send your letters to Uncle
Frank, The Michigan Farmer, Detroit,
Michigan.

PUZZLE WINNERS.

 

AYBE it was because of the hot
weather, or perhaps the thought of
starting school, that kept many from
answering the last cross-word puzzle.
Anyhow, it seemed that because I took
a vacation all the Merry Circlers
thought they would do the same. There
were only forty answers to that puz-
zle, and only eleven had the puzzle
right. Ten get prizes as follows:
Fountain Pens.
Hattie Krivak, Bannister, Mich.
Muriel Frey, Caledonia, Mich.
Dictionaries.

Alex Papp, R. 4, Carleton, Michu

Stephania Kobzal, Rossford, Ohio.

James Schocke, Washington, Mich.

Knives.

Ellen Van Deventer, Ithaca, Mich.

Edith Lockwood. Goldwater, Mich.

Helen Bale,.R~ 4, Fennville, Mich.

Geneva. Kohlerberger, 309 Sheridan
Avenue, Big Rapids, Mich. _

Miss Clara Wright, R. 1, Mic, Mich.

  
  
 

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maybe seine radio" nut near. the junc-
t on: will pick it up and tell ’em to stop
the ‘rtrain.’ Then’ I 'reads 'em your

. measage.”

During this time the amplifier, which
Branton had brought back to- the tow-
er was giving forth the strains of the
second opera. It fell on unhearing
ears, for Branton failed to share the
optimism expressed by the older man,
who seemed certain that the message
would be heard and the train halted.
Both men looked toward the wireless“.

“Stand by for important announce-
ment," came the voice of the broad-
caster again, this time breaking into
the music. . “The Harrisburg radio sta-
tion has just received the following
message from the Westinghouse plant
at Pittsburgh: '

“All persons living near the Midland
Railway system, and particularly on
the line running from Altoona to Pipe-
stone junction, are urged to see wheth-
er they can intercept special train on
way to disaster at mine. Trestle is
down and wires not working. You
have only a few moments to save more
than a hundred lives!”

“There’s your message, now, boy,"
cried Tompkins in triumph, “that’ll
get ’em. What’d I tell you?"

“It’s weird," returned Branton. "I
never felt before the way I do now.
The special won’t get to the junction
for twenty minutes. And I know of a
dozen people near there with radio
receiving sets. It may work, Tomp-
kins!"

In an effort to quiet his own nerves,
Branton made a cup of coffee for him-
self and the miner. His watch showed
that it was now eleven o’clock. Either
the special had been saved by this
time, or was beyond the reach of mor-
tal hands. Both men, from time to
time, looked appealingly at the radio
amplifier, as if their very anxiety
might persuade it to speak. At last
they heard the voice of the announcer:

“For the information of those who
heard the appeal to stop the special
(it said), we are happy to state that
the train was halted at the junction.
We have no further details. Good
night.”

'_“You done it, boy” burst out the
miner.

But Branton did not speak. The
strain of the past hour left him numb.
He was soon alone in the tower again,
as Tompkins returned to his home.
The telegraph instruments were still
silent. '

The hours of the night passed slow-
ly, but at last the eastern sky beyond
the horizon of the hills turned from
black to gray and from gray to white.
The rain had stopped entirely and the
coming of the sun brought faint touch-
es of pink, which rested, in kindly
fashion, on the rocks and crags of the
mountains. Branton stumbled to his
feet as the dawn crept through the
windows of the signal tower.

He hurried down the track to the
trestle, Where a scene of the wildest
confusion met his eyes. The track
swung crazily in the air on the near
side of the gorge, for the landslide had
torn away the supporting timbers and
braces.

Branton was eating a makeshift
breakfast when he heard the whistle
of a locomotive and again hurried out
of the tower. On the other side of the
ravine he saw an engine to which was
coupled a large derrick. A flat gondola
car at the end of the train was piled
high with lumber, rails, and other
equipment for repair work.

“Hello!" called out the engineer of
the locomotive, leaving his cab and
advancing along the track to the point
Where the break had occurred. “Hear
you had some trouble.”

“Just a little,” replied Branton,
standing on the side of the ravine.
“How long will it be before things are
going again? And what's happened
up at the mines? I can’t make a soul
answer over my wires.”

“Guess we’ll get the break done by
night,” answered the engineer. “I
haven’t any dope about the mine. The
Division Super sent this message to
you. I’ll wrap it around a stone and
toss it over.”.

The engineer folded a telegraph
blank, which he took from his hat,
around a pebble and threw it to Bran—
ton. The young man read the mes—
sage eagerly, and then frowned in be—
wilderment. _

“What does it' mean?” he called to
the engineer, who was watching him
with a delighted grin. ‘

“I don’t know a thing, son,” was the
reply. “Don’t know a thing. Well,
I’ll see you later.”

He turned and hurried back to his
Branton opened the tele-
gram from his chief once more.

“Listen in on the Harrisburg pro-
gram tonight,” (it said).

Branton, after getting a few hours”

rest, returned to his post in the after—
noon and was surprised when, at eight

(Continued on page 259).

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Of Howell

Ten Years Finished
August 30, 1925
The following shows the re-

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Bittersweet
Wanted

Farmer Boys and Girls
should gather the Bit-
tersweet from along

the fences. Write for :
instructions. We pay
10 cts. per pound for
good stuff. Hurry or

the season will be over.

Florist Supply company

6221 Iroquois Ave.,
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An unusual opportunity
for young farm men

astrous.

poultry house illumination.
finding is that when lights are turned

HENS UNDER LIGHTS. Nae-p LOTS

. HENS made to hit on all six in

, winter by the use of artificial
light, must be given a long fall‘vaca-
tion, and extra food. Otherwise, they
won’t stand the strain, and artificial
lighting will not only fall short of its
possibilities in stimulating winter pro-
duction, but may actually prove dis-

This is the main finding of Prof. G. . doing nicely until 19‘
S. Vickers, of the Ohio .State Univer-
sity, reviewing practical findings ,on

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trade rye for Wheat Md have less make recommendatmnsnafter handling
wheat, or invest the rye money in corn the birds and noting their condition.
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I on in the fall and off in the spring,

this should be done gradually so as to
avoid throwing the flock into molt.

“The whole idea of illumination is
to make hens eat more food by making
their day longer,” the writer states.
“The more they eat, the more they’ll
lay. But to force production without

. supplying additional food is to defeat

th?

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sole purpose of lighting.

Hens should be rested well into
midwinter before the lights are turned
on. Pullets may be started under the

the gall are probably‘ present, along -a
with some form of liver trouble. Some t
cause such
conditions. ‘Liver trouble and other
ailments of that kind are difl‘icult to
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kinds of poisoning might

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nd thrive for several months, and
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older stock. ‘
Perform a postmortem on the chicks
that die, and note the condition of the
internal organs. Wheat is a good grow-
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grain. Mouldy or spoiled wheat is a
very dangerous feed and will cause

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lights in November. Lights on both
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“Just how far can we afford to force
the flock in winter by lights? An
exact answer is impossible, but expe-
rience seems to show that about fifty
per cent production is the limit of
safety.”

 

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, I have been feeding ground grain and
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warm.”
sighed Brownie, “but it’s awful warm.”

and he brushed a trickle of sweat from
his forehead.

as a twinkle came into his eye. “Let’s
play Barber Billy.”

game,” said , Brownie.

 

chicks to die.

Large flocks of brooder chicks usu-
ally range close to home and the hop-
, pers of balanced dry mash are needed

. Some would go lame before
they died. I killed a well one and its to keep them all growing. The num-
insides were all covered with yellow ber of bugs and worms per ChiCk is

lumps. There was one sick afterwards rather limited when a small ran 9 is
and I killed her and made an exami- g '

PROBABLY TUBERCULOSIS.

 

We have lost about fifty hens this

nation. She was the same as the other used by large flock Of growing

one. Some say they have tuberculosis. poultry.

If souvlvhadt is the cure for it? hWill tit ———————_____

3 V9. e isease to anyone W 0 ea S J. N Harris, an apiarist of Gratiot

aighs‘cfiig tag; ,Efiggylfig'get had in- county, will harvest over twenty tons

S e ' ' ' ‘ . of honey this year from his 600
The hens probably had tuberculos1s, swarms of bees, located within a rad«

although a laboratory examination is ius of five or six miles from St. Louis.

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Doings In Woodland

Bruin, Bro'wm'e and Rally Play Baréer Shop

HE adventures of the three "I’ll show you,” answered Bruin.
Woodland Wanderers were lead- “Will it make us any cooler?” asked
ing them into a country that Rolly Rabbit.
was much warmer than Woodland, “I think it will,” said Bruin.
where they had always lived. In fact, At that they were right ready to
now it really was hot. But Bruin, play the game and Bruin produced two
Rolly Rabbit and Brownie were de- pairs of scissors from his pocket.
termined to reach Happy Land in Rolly Rabbit and Brownie were some-
spite of the hot weather or other hand- what surprised at this.
icaps. On this particular morning, "NOW the one Who is 'it’
that big rock there,”
ing to one near.

“I’ll be ‘it' first,” said Rolly, and he
hopped upon the rock.

Then Bruin showed Brownie what
he was to do. Rolly squirmed a little,
but he really enjoyed being ‘it.’ After
five minutes he hopped down from the
rock Where he had been sitting, and
he was a queer looking rabbit. With
the scissors, Bruin and Brownie had
cut his shaggy hair. Playing Barber
Billy had really made him cooler, Rol-
ly thought.

“Ho! Ho! He!” sang Rolly as he
hopped about. “I really believe the

weather has changed. It seems so
much cooler.”

 

    

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must sit on
said Bruin, point:

 

Rally and Brownie Cut Off Bruin’s
Shaggy Hair.

hat I am telling you about, it was
warmer than usual.

“0h, whew!” sighed Rolly, “but it’s

Next Bruin was “it” and sat in the
barber chair while Rolly and Brownie
played they were Barber Billy, and
clipped off Bruin’s long shaggy hair.
Brownie came next and he squirmed
and wiggled to the right and to the
left, but after a time they had Brownie
all barbered, too.

And their Barber Billy game over,
they skipped off toward Happy land

again, ever so much cooler than be-
fore. ‘ '

And, “Oh, whew! Whew!”

“Oh, whew, whew, whew!” sighed
ig Bruin, “but it’s getting warmer,”

“I know what we will do,” said Bruin

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substituted when it is somewhat cheap-
er. Oats- may form part of the ration,
but oats alone are not so desirable as
a. fattening feed except-«when very
cheap. Rye is not very satisfactory
except in small quantities. Barley and
rye must be ground, and oats should
be, except for feeding calves under one
year old.

Corn is usually fed as broken ear
corn, corn and cob meal, or shelled
corn. Grinding does not usually pay
if hogs are allowed to work over the
droppings. In fact, cattle feeders con-
sider hogs as part, of the necessary
“equipment.” Shock corn is fed suc-
cessfully by many farmers, especially
to older cattle. If a generous supply
of legume hay is available, two-year-
old steers weighing 800 pounds or
more will do very well on shock corn.
and hay. Even heavy calves have
made good use of shock corn as part
of the ration.

A full feed of corn will, of course,
produce a quicker finish, and unless
corn is very high in price, as com-
pared with the roughages, a good
heavy feed shows the most profit. If
silage is being fed and it is desired
to limit the corn somewhat, experi—
mental results show the most profit
when little or no corn is fed during
the early part of the period, and a full
feed is given during the latter part.
Cheap gains are made by the thin
animal on rough feeds, and the finish
is put on at the last with corn. In
fact, more profit was made with an
unlimited allowance of silage, with the
addition of linseed or cottonseed meal
and clover hay, and no corn, than
when a half feed of corn was allowed
throughout the feeding period. Purdue
University and the University of Mis—
souri obtained very similar results on
this point.

Unless a good supply of first-class
legume hay is allowed, it pays well to,
add the protein supplement. The usual
standard is two and one-half pounds of
linseed or cottonseed meal per thou-
sand pounds of live weight per day.
There is little choice between old proc-
ess linseed meal and forty-one per
cent cottonseed meal at the same
price per ton when used for fattening
cattle. If no silage is fed, linseed
meal is a little more desirable.

Even with silage and protein supple-
ment, the steer relishes some form of
dry roughage. The cheaper kinds, such
as oat straw, bean straw, corn stover
or mixed hay, give very good results
in that case. However, when the hay
forms the entire roughage and no sil-
age is fed, the legume hays are far
superior to these non—protein rough-
ages.

Kinds of Cattle to Feed.

The selection of cattle for feeding
purposes depends upon several factors.
Good to choice quality two-year—old
steers can usually be bought cheaper
per hundred pounds than can choice
calves. They will also make larger
daily gains and attain a desirable mar-
ket finish more quickly. They will
also consume larger quantities of
roughage in proportion to the grain
feed required than will the calves. On
the other hand, choice quality calves
will make more gains per hundred
pounds of feed consumed than will the
older cattle. More calves may be car-
ed for in the same space, and an equal
investment in calves will convert more
feed into beef than.will the older cat-
tle. Common grades of calves usually
will not fatten satisfactorily at so
young an age. There is usually a
broader market demand for lighter cat-
tle than for those weighing above
1,250 pounds. Calves can bemarket—
ed over a longer period of time more
profitably than can older cattle, due’
to their ability to continue to grow

re action ImMichigan

(Continued from page 243).
'duces fat very readily. Barley may be

vVVhen the older cattle are

finished for market they cease to gain
and lose their bloom if held on feed.
, Yearling cattle average between the
calves and the two-year-old steers in
all the above points. There is prob-
ably less demand for yearlings as feed-
ers than for either of the other kinds,
so that they. can often be bought at a
reasonable price on the 'market.

Choice caIVes fed at the Michigan
State Agricultural Experiment Station
during the past two winters made
very satisfactory gains and returned
a profit above feed costs. The average
daily gain made by calves self-fed on
grain was 2.39 pounds, and for those
fed a lighter grain ration, 2.30 pounds,
each lot receiving linseed‘meal, corn
silage and alfalfa hay. When the lin-
seed meal was omitted from the lim-
ited grain lot, a similar group of
calves made a gain of 2.13 pounds per
day. These tWo lots showed a net
profit above feed cost of $2.98 per calf,
while the self-fed lot returned a profit
of fifty-seven cents. During the past
winter when corn was rather high-
priced the self-fed calves returned
$1.20 per bushel for the corn eaten,
and the other two lots $1.40 and $1.47
respectively per bushel.

TEN MINUTES TO SPARE.

 

(Continued from page .257).
o’clock, the engineer, the foreman of
the wrecking crew, and a number of
the workmen appeared at the tower.

“We laid a little foot—bridge across
the busted part of the trestle,” 'eX-
plained the engineer. “We want to
hear this radio stuff. Got her wound

up yet?”
“Come on in,” smiled Branton,
“she’s wound up all right. Hello,

Tompkins; you here, too?”

“Stand by for news dispatches from
Harrisburg,” ordered the voice of the
broadcaster from the amplifier which
Branton had again attached, this time
so that his audience could listen in.
The little circle of men leaned for-
ward eagerly.

“Philadelphia, March 29 (began the
dispatch). A special train, with more
than a hundred people on board, was
saved last night when a farmer living
near Tower W at the Pipestone junc-
tion of the Midland Railway, heard an
app'eal on his radio set to waln the
engineer that a trestle on the b1anch
ahead had been torn away by a land-
slide.

“In a statement issued from his offi-
ces here today, E. H. Merriam, presi-
dent of the Midland system, declared
that the credit should go to Howard
Branton, a youthful Signalman.

“One of the worst storms in the his-
tory of the state swept through the
Allegheny Mountains last night. Branv
ton, having been told by wire that a
special was being hurried to the mine,
was on guard He—

“Hey, what’d you cut he1 out for?”
came from Tompkins, as the voice sud-
denly st.opped “VVhat’ s the big idea?
It was just gettin’ excitin’. ”

“I know most of the lest myself,” re-
turned Branton, his face crimson. “But
what did the relief workers Do?
they get to the mine? And where did
the newspaper get all that stuff?”

“I told ’em some of it,” admitted
Tompkins. “I got so blamed curious
about the fellers at the mine that I
called up a newspaper office at Johns-
town this mornin’. The editor tells
me that the relief squads continued
the trip by auto after the train was
stopped, and that most of the miners
was safe. Then he made me tell him
what you done. The boys fixin’ the
trestle said I wasn’t to let on.”

The audience then filed slowly out of
the door and back to the work of re-
pairing the trestle. Branton was alone
again—confused but happy and glad.
After all, his chance had come and he
had made good. He wondered whether
Susan had heard, Susan of the brown
eyes. Maybe she had just been listen-
ing in. Possibly promotion would fol-
low, and possibly she would not think
that he was so slow. His thoughts
were interrupted by the click of the
telegraph, the wires having been re—
paired. His own call sounded.

“Proud and happy,” (came the mes-
sage). “Heard it all. When will I
see you? Susan.” ..

“Can I send a return message?” he
asked the operator.

“Sure.” came the telegraphic answer.
“Coming first furlough,” (he click-
ed off).

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farmer who had been able toed-
ucate’ Six boys, and sent one through
the university, on'an eighty-acre sand-
farm. I was very much interested in
his methods and asked him-how he
was able to do what he was doing and
had already done.
He reluctantly told me that there
were no “push button” .methods in
making money in the farm business
these days and that his Success was
due to the fact that he always fed the
last fifteen per cent. , He further told
me that what money he had saved
Was profit. from his hens and cows.

fat." Yet in a regentsarticle in a Hol—
stein breed paper there was consider-
able bragging do‘ne because . Holstein
milk was making headway in certain
New Jersey towns against the richer
Guernsey milk. Then. towards the end
of the article the secret was revealed.

The competing Guernsey milk soured...

quickly while the Holstein milk re-
mained sweet a“ long time. To my no-
tion'it was not so much the‘lack of
fat in the Holstein milk which turned
the trick as the care with which it
was produced. '

‘ Therefore, in trying to build up a
market milk trade, by means of direct
delivery to the housewife, the first
consideration is sanitation every step

,of the production way. Clean, sweet,

Barred Rocks were being managed and

information from his state agricultural
college.

Since there were many other farm-
ers in the community who had not
done as well with more favorable op-

wholesome milk, complying with legal
butterfat requirements, will hold its
own on any market, regardless of the

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silo Filling _Days Are Busy Days, But When Over, the Corn Crop is En-
tirely Out of the Way. These Farmers Use Electric Power.

portunities, I persistently asked for his
specific methods, and What he did and
What he meant by the last fifteen per
cent. -

Since there was plenty of fried chick-
en left over from dinner, and being
anxious ‘to see his exact manner of
caring for the farm animals, I re-
mained until feeding time. He gave
the milk cows a large pile of clover
hay, a quart of cats, and a half gallon
of shorts and middlings, and two ears
of shelled corn. He milked three high-
grade Jerseys and carried to the house
nine gallons of milk.

After milking we went to the poul—
try house, where.250 high standard

breed of cows fr'om which it is pro-
duced.

Of course, with milk produced un-
dcfi‘ equal conditions, and with the
price disparity not too great, the
Guernsey and Jersey brethren may
have a little the advantage. The
cream line does count for milk used
for general table and beverage pur-
poses. Advocates of the lower testing
milk, it seems, lay too much stress
upon the “relatively greater digesti-
bility of their milk.” Individual cases
modify all general rules, and if the
fond parents of a. baby are feeding
Jersey milk, and the infant’s stomach
retains and digests the milk, there is
not much chance of the parents
switching to Holstein milk. If the
baby is thriving on Holstein milk, the
parents are not apt to risk complica-

fed according to the latest scientific

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ing. Elihu-lee Free. WRIT FOR
FREE BOOK on permanent farm build-
ings. including our Tile and Wood Silos.
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Dept. 423 Kalamazoo. Mich.

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Better and Quicker

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work than any others,
Don’t experiment. Choose a husker
that for more than 25 years has de-
monstrated its superiority in the field.

All-Feature Husker

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swiveling blower. Alemlte Oiling System.
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0d and I am making money. Feed the
last fifteen per cent, as the first eighty-
five per cent is used for maintenance.”
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enough to agree upon a general policy
_ of encouraging the 305 day oflicial

test. That is a long step forward in
'the interest of harmony, and the bet—
ter development of the whole dairy
Minimum Shelling. ThorOugh separating breeding business.

milk of the respective breeds, there is
far from being accord.

the general public is not much inter-

ested in the conflicting claims of the
' breed propogandists.
them, with two exceptions. The house-
wife notices whether the milk sours
easily, indicating unclean milk; and
she notices the depth or lack of depth
of cream line.

whole milk duestion is one of butter-

tions by changing to Jersey. The diet
of the modern infant is so closely
supervised by physicians that breed
appeals to the mother are partially
wasted.

Just as'there is a place for the fliv-
ver and the high priced eight-cylinder
automobile, so is there a, place for the
two types of milk. There are a cer-
tain number of people who will con-
tinue to demand a luxury milk, while
the vast percentage of our city popu-
lation will have to get along with the
general utility milk. If the breeds be- .
gin throwing stones at each other’s
milk, the consumer is apt to become
confused, and suspicious of all milk.

The best way to boost the consump<
tibn of all brands of milk is to per-
suade the producers of the necessity ‘
of producing this milk under the most ’
sanitary conditions possible. I per-
sonally don’t care much for milk which
has not been produced right, but when
I know that the milk is clean, and
processed right, I can drink it by the
quart. I think many of. the city con-
sumers feel just like that-WI. A.
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have buried their differences

But in the matter
f rivalry in promoting the sale of the

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tion ranks highest for the year in the t

two-year-ol‘d class. This cow is owned
by J. B. Duetsch and_produced 588

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of milk. John C. Buth, of the Kent-
.West—Alpine, and T. C. Tiedebohl, of
the Van Buren-North Cow Testing As-
sociation, owns the second and third
high. cows' in this class. . These are
_ pure-bred Holsteins and produced 547.2
pounds ofbutter-fat and 16,358 pounds
of milk, and 504.6 pounds of butter-fat
and 12,511 pounds of milk respectively.
Other cows in this age class are own-
ed as follows: Wm. Godfrey, purebred
Jersey of the Allegan-Central; J. C.
Coleman, Clinton-Shiawassee; C. H.
Shafley, Clinton-North; T. C. Tiedeé
bohl, Van Buren-North, all with pure-
bred Holsteins; J. B. Duetsch, Mar-
quette-Alger; P. S. & C. Faye Myers,
of the'Genesee No. 1 with pure-bred
Guernseys, and R. A. Ferrall, of the
Kent-Alto with a. pure-bred Jersey.

 

COUNTY CROP REPORTS.

Ottawa 00., Sept. 8.-—The yields of
grains were as follows: Wheat, 25
bushels; cats, 35 bushels; barley, 20
bushels. Potatoes look good; corn
promises to yield heavy; fodder is ex-
, ceptionally good; corn will mature in
ten days of good weather; had about
one to one and one-half tons of second
crop clover. Very little over normal
seeding of wheat and rye. Pastures
are real good just now. Some hay is
being sold.. Old baled timothy $15@
20. New clover sells for $20@22. Sec-
ond crop for $16@18. Very little
wheat being sold—F. C H

Wexford 00., Sept. 7.—Oats are
yielding about twenty bushels per
acre. Pickles a poor crop; not much
corn will ripen; potatoes below the
average; early potatoes hurt by dry
weather; late potatoes will make 80
per cent of a crop; pasture short. But-
ter-fat 42c; eggs 30c. There will be
about an average crop of rye sown.

Not much wheat in this county.—
G. A. E.
Missaukee 00., Sept. 7.——Hay less

than one-half crop. We have just had
a fine rain after being dry so long. It
will help all fall crops which are look-
ing good now. Early potatoes are a
light crop. Pastures are dried up and
cows have fallen away one-half in the
flow of milk. Oats are yielding on an
average of twenty-five bushels per
acrex No wheat sown as yet; most
wheat will be sown late. The usual
acreage of fall grain will be sown.
Wheat is $1.45; rye 80c; potatoes
$1.25 per hundred.——H. E. N.

Lake 00., Sept. 10.——The usual acre-
age of wheat and rye are being sown.
It is very dry, and it is hard work to
plow and drag clay grounds. Pastur-
age is very poor. Oats yielded from
twenty to forty bushels per acre.
Wheat that was early sown threshed
“about an average of fifteen to thirty
bushels per acre—Z. B.

 

NEED NO LEGISLATION.

 

FARMERS are the only group who
have ever asked the government

to control their business. In all
efforts looking toward human better-
ment, no other class or group of peo-
ple has ever voluntarily asked the
government to take them by the neck
and regulate their marketing activi—
ties. Industry and labor have both
opposed government interference. The
only legislation labor has asked for
from congress was to be freed from
the anti-trust law which labor organ-
izations helped to pass. Government
control would be justified only when
the farmers became extortionate in
their dealings with the consumers.
And the consumers can be depended
upon to take care of their own inter-
ests without the assistance of the pro
ducers.

Why are the farmers asking for a
board to be created to control them,
when no one else has ever asked for
it? Any board that might be appoint-
ed by the President Would be semi-
political. It could be expected to be

responsive to the politicians in power. ‘

The farmers are in a minority, there-
fore the board would be reasonably
certain to give the larger share of its
attention to the demands of the ma-
jority—the consumers.

. For this reason, if for no other,
farmers generally would be justified
in opposing every effort to control
their business by a federal govern-
ment agency. Looking first to their
o‘wninterests, they will closely scruti-

- nize‘ the commission’s cooperative

new" speedy; She should be well red. .

  
 

.16 .., a. I a?" 4.! in“
to controitheir‘ couperative ‘ marketing
assiomatio‘ns: . -‘

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JARDINE , TO DECIDE PACKERS’
' MERGER.

 

ECRETARY JARDINE must make

a decision on the legality of the

merger of the Armour and Norris
packing interests. Attorney-General
Sargeant, to whom the secretary re-
ferred the matter, has been advised
that congress specifically gave to the
secretary of agriculture full power of
administration of the packers and
stockyards act, and has turned the
matter back to Secretary Jardine for
further consideration. There is noth-
ing left for the secretary to do but
decide the case one way or another.

PEOPLE HEALTHIER.

 

PEOPLE are taking better care of
their health, or the season has

been unusually favorable to good
health, according to Surgeon-General
Hugh . Cummings, of the United
States Public Health Service, who re-
ports that the death rate in this coun-
try for the first seven months of this
year was lower than the average for
the last five years. A marked decline
is noted in cases of diphtheria, While
infantile paralysis is apparently on
the increase.

 

ONTONAGON LEADS.

 

THE July report of Mr. J. G. Wells,
dairy specialist for the Michigan
State College in the peninsula,
shows that Ontonagon county ranked
first among cow testing associations of
the district. In this association each
cow produced an average of 696
pounds of milk and 30.1 pounds of
butter-fat. On the basis of average
production, the rank of the associa-
tions was as follows: Ontonagon,
Chippewa, Dickinson, North Delta,
arquette, Houghton, North Menom-
inee and South Menominee.

VETERINARY.

 

Congested Udder.—Cow came fresh
four weeks ago, udder swelled, veter-
inary opened swelling, bloody water
came out. Is her milk fit for use? W.
J. C., Climax, Mich—Give her a half-
ounce of fluid extract of phytolacca in
drinking water three times a day;
do not use milk until she gets well.

Poisoned—I have two pigs three
months old with sores on head which
suppurate. Another pig suffered from
similar ailment last spring, and died.
J. F. P., ,Eaton Rapids, Mich—First,
apply hydrogen peroxide to remove
pus, then paint sores with tincture of
iodine. Treat the pigs daily. Doubt-
less their heads were injured, then
sore became infected.

Articular Rheumatism.—~Have a two-
-year-old ewe which seems to be af-
fected in both hock joints. E. B. S.,
Woodville, Mich—Paint hock joint
with tincture of iodine three times a
week, give her five grains of sodium
salicylate at a dose two or three times
a day. Don’t forget to examine her
feet, for some or all of her soreness
may be located there.

Shoulder Lameness.——I have a lame
horse and believe the trouble is in the
shoulder. Please tell me what I shall
do for her. C. H., Manchester, Mich.
——Before treating a case of lameness,
locate the trouble, then apply equal
parts of turpentine, aqua ammonia,
raw linseed oil, daily.

Ophthalmia.—Have a. young mare
that first had trouble in one eye; this
eye has partially cleared, now the oth-
er eye is clouded a little. A. W. G.,
Chelsea, Mich—Dissolve a teaspoonful
of boric acid in quarter pint of clean
water, apply to‘eyes three times daily.

Catarrh—Brain Trouble—Two days
after I bought a fourteen-year-old
horse his legs stocked, swelling ap-
peared under belly, and mucus ran
from both nostrils. He has a fine ap—
petite. I also have a twelve-year-old
horse which is inclined to move in a
circle, always going to the left. I
Work him. I. C., Winters, Mich—Dis-
solve quarter-pound of baking soda in
half gallon of tepid water, wash out
nostrils twice a day; give him one-half
ounce of Fowler’s Solution at a dose
in drinking water three times daily.
Give your twelve-year—old horse a half-
dram of potassium iodide at a dose
two or three times a day. His bowels
should be kept open.

Sweeny.——Our six-year-old mare has
a bad case of sweeny. The injections
of medicine our veterinary is applying
fails to do him much good. .
Harbor Beach, Mich—Atrophy of th
muscles, following severe sprain, will
be benefited by counter-irritation; ,rest
the animal, if lame, but as soon as
she walks sound, walking exercise will
do her good. Doubtless your veter-
inary is treating the case properly, and

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Fruit prospects show little change
since last month. Apples have suf-
fered from drouth in states south of
Maryland and Kentucky, and prospects
have declined somewhat in the north~
west. The total apple crop is esti-
mated at 162,000,000 bushels, or about
ten per cent less than the quantity
produced last year, but a large part
of the crop is in the commercial sec-
tion; and the quality is unusually
goo .

 

LENTY of work for the
horses right now. Don’t
let minor ailments put them

out of commission this fall.
Keep them fit with Gembault’s

Caustic Balsam. Apply it yourself.
Known everywhere for 41 years Is
the reliable remedy for Spavin,
Capped Hock, Curb, Splint, Laryn- ,
gitis, Thoroughpin, Quittor, Wind

- Gallo, Poll Evil, Sprains, Fistula,
Muscular Inflammation, Barb Wire
Cuts, Calk Wounds.

Won’t scar or discolor the hair. Far
more effective than firing. Keep it
handy—always. Get your bottle
to—day— $2.00 .8 all drugglsts, or
direct from u. upon receipt of price.
The Lawrence-Williams Company,
Cleveland, Ohio.

GOOD FOR HUMANS, T00

 

 

GOMBAULT'S
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Caustic
BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Twelve Dave before date of publication

 

 

 

4 2-year—olds due this fall,
cows have good records in the Coleman Union Cow
Testing Assoristion.

. producers and richly bred. Priced to sell.

B. E. KI ES.

  

 

‘ . em Cows, and

Y oung Bulls
When buying 3 young bun. secure one bred for m
er production and better type. We have them 0!
desirable conformation out of cows with very'cmdlta
able records. Also a. few young cows safe in cell

and with records up to 25 lbs. 3-yr.-old.
Send for extended pedigrees.

Lakefield Farm, Clarkston, Mich.
F O R S A L E

1 d R stored Holsteins. 8 cows due this fall,
7 Hes 8g! 5 yearling heifers. The

as Jr.

 

JOHN STERLING. R. No. I.

Beaverton. Mich.
Holstein cows and heifers frail
and some to freshen soon.
Satisfac-
Mich.

Registered

tion guaranteed. B. B. REAVEY. Akron.

' Bull calf. 34-lb. breeding. white.
HOlSteln $60, satisfaction or money back.
Hillodale. Mich.

Registered Herefords. one

FOR SALE herd bull, seven cows with

calves. R. W. BAKER. Marine City. Mich.

FINANCIAL KING JERSEYS

For sale. young bull ready for service, also a. few bull
calves. from Register of Merit cows. COLDWATER
JERSEY FARM, Goldwater. Mich.

ready
few females. All
Smith &

 

Bulls for service.
also a
Accredited herd.

Howell, Mich.

Jerseys For Sale
from ll. of M. dams.
Parker. R. D. No. 4.

BUTTER BRED warns?“

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.
Silver Creke‘ Allegan County, . Michigan

75 Cows. 4 Bulls from R. of M. Cows. Chance to
; select from herd of 70. Some fresh. others bred
for fall 'freshening. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersville. Mich.

 

Best of quality and breeding. Bulls,
Shorthoms cows and heifers for sale. BIDWELL.
STOCK FARM. Box 0. Tooumooh. Mich.

 

WILDWOOD FARM

FOR SALE—Six splendid young cows and two heif-
ers. Also two bull calves. 8 moa. old. All of best
milking ancestry. Beland a. Beland, Tecumseh. Mich.

Brown swlss Bulls, serviced

FOR SALE able age or younger. A. A.

Foldkamn. Manchester. Mlch.

 

 

[-1005
D U R O C S March furrow. long and pro-
lific strain. Siro's litter mate.

Grand Champ. Jr. Gilt. IMich. State Fair 1923. Sired

by twice Grand Champ. at International. Satisfaction
or money back. Later fall pigs. Write B. E.
KIES, Hillsdale, Mich. ,

DUROCS

Bred Sow:
Spring Boar!
Shropshire Rama ,
LAKEFIELD FARMS. Clarkston. Mich.

REGISTERED 0. I. c. GILTS
ready for breeding for my lax-row. Boats ready for
service. Also some extra good spring pigs. both sex.
All stock shipped on approval. FRED W. KENNEDY.

 

 

FOR SALE- Reg. Guernsey BuII Calf

Sire by Lone Pine Ranger whose dam has an A. it.
record of 17.6442 lbs. Milk. 936.6 lbs._lljat. No Fe—
males for Sale. Write J. M. Williams, North
Adams; Gilmore Brothers. Camden, Mich.

R. No. 2. Plymouth. Mich.
- Chester Whites—Real spring boa-rs
Blg Type with size and quality. A few

good gilts. LUCIAN HILL, Tekonsha, Mich.

 

March boars of quality

Chester Whites reasonable prices.

F. W. Alexander, Vassar. Mich.

 

Wallinwood Guernseys
Young bulls from A. R. cows for sale.
F. W. WALLIN. Jenioon, Mich.

 

FRANCISCO FARM

Poland-Chinas and Shel-thorns

 

 

Got a. boarlf'rom us and get a $19“ one. Or a bred

Re . Guernse Cows. Bulls and heifcr.wort1 the money. Only the best suits us:

For Sale 3.51 Calves. yA. It. Record May We suit you. P. P. POPE, Mt. Pleasant. Mich.
Rose Breeding. JOHN EBELS, R. 2, Holland, Mich. ‘ u b th t B Th
- (‘1 101‘ sex. y c grca car. 6

Reg. No. 98125, price $150. Fa“ PIQS Wolverine. Priced reasonable. Best

ZeYear-flld Guernsey Bull

llcifer or cow.
TRAYNOR. R.

. Or will trade for Guernsey
Write or F 21.

No. 2.

’phone 116 ROY

Flushing, Mich.

Some real bargains in reg—

Guernseys ist_cred cows and heifers, one
young bull. W. W. Burdlck. Williamston. Mich.

 

High Herd Production
Means Profit

The quickest and cheapest way to breed
high production into your herd is to use the
right kind of herd sire.

_Micl1imm State Hcrds have 14 sires in ser-
vice whose dams average 1067.5 lbs. butter
and 24,590.32 lbs. milk in a year. The cows
in these herds are high producers. During
the past your 824 rows in Michigan State
[lords averagud 10,188.? lbs. oar-h.

Use a, sire bred by Michigan State Hcrds
t0 msuro high production in your herd.

 

of dams.

C. .l. THOMPSON.

W1 E. Livingston. I’arma. Mich.

 

—

SHEEP

Thousands of Breeding Ewes

Lambs and Wool much more than pay for them in
12 months. (100%)

World Shortage of Sheep

Car lots only. Yearlings to matured ewes. No old
ones. Send stamp for "The Golden Hoof." '
Resume of tho Sheep situation.

George M. Wilber, Marysville, Ohio

10 yearling rams and a few ram.
lambs, priced at $20 to $30 each.
Rockford, Mich.

 

Shropshires

 

SHROPSHIRES

Yearling Rams
Ram Lambs

Lakefield Farms, Clarkston, Mich.

 

m, Bureau of
9"“ "5“” Animal Industry
occur-ll! Dept. C

 

Lansing, Michigan

 

 

Lambs.

. Two If I h‘ .
Entire Flock 113 153.7355 $5.6 Ra’i‘sga
M. A. CAIN, Hillman. Mich.

 

 

 

(Additional Stock Ads- on Page 263).

 

Double Dispersion “Sale
75 Registered Holstein Cattle 75

George Barnes :51

J. I. Van Keuren

Howell, Michigan

Thursday, Oct

Two Herd Sires from high record da
large yearly records.
records. 20 cows due
dyke.
Hengerveld Pontiac,
2 granddaughters of May Walker Ollie
record butter Champion).

Livingston County is on t

.4 cows with large yearly records.
1n Oct. and Nov. A granddaughter of Mabel Segis Korn-
20 daughters of Maple Plane King Johanna.

ober 8, 1925

ms. 4 young bulls from dams with
18 with C. T. A.

5 daughters of Fayne

who is a full brother to a former World’s record cow.

Homestead (The American yearly

he Accredited T. B. List.

For Catalogs, Address F. J. Fishbeck, Howell, Mich.

  

   

 
 
 
 
 

 
    
           
  


 

  

GRAIN QUOTATIONS 1 tries‘have

Tuesday, September 15. ‘ I
Wheat.

  

 

  
   

in quantity.

 

Chicago—Sept at $1.501/4@1.50%;
Delcgénéier $1.50%@1.50%; May $1.53%
@ . .

Toledo—Wheat: $1,86@1.87.
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Detroit—No. 2 yellow $1.04; No. 8 ible supply, the
yellow $1.03.

Chicago.~Sept. at 94%c; December cumulation will
83%c; May 8795c.

Old Oats

Detroit.-—No. 2 white 49c; No. 3 46c. under corn, and t
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Detroit.‘No. 2, $1.03.-
Chicago—Sept. at 87040; December
9214c; May 97140. The
Toledo.——$1.00.

grOWers for
20 crop.

kidneys $12@12.50. in important districts

New York.——Choice pea at $5@5.50;
red kidneys $11@11.50.

Barley tWO years ago, and $4
Malting 81c; feeding 760. ago.
Seeds

Detroit—October red clover $14.80;
timothy $3.60.

Buckwheat

feeds are in ample su
Detroit.—$2.20@2.25.

standard $24@24.50; No. 1 light clover
mixed $24@24.50; No. 2 timothy $22
@23.

at $11.50@12; rye straw $12@13.
Feeds l't h d

Detroit—Bran at $33@34; standard quai y, OWCVGI', an t
middlings $36; fine,middlings at $41; fancy graded stock ha
cracked corn $45; coarse cornmeal at reduced.
$43; chop $37 per ton in carlots.

Small Fruit—Prices at Chicago

able for a good fall 1

as fresh receipts hold

cases $5 stocks are not drawn

Plums—Michigan, 16. qt., $1.

Peaches—Crates of six baskets $2
@225. .
Huckleberries.—Michlgan fancy, 16

qts., $4.25.
WHEAT

After following a gradual downward
trend for a month, the wheat market
made a determined effort to turn in
the past week. An unexpectedly large
estimate on spring wheat stimulated
renewed speculative efforts to depress
prices, however, and finally brought stronger than Monda
on liquidation. Cash demand has con— tive and 150 higher;
tinued about equal to the receipts, so

 

Hogs

ness from pressure of the actual grain. $13.60-
$12.50@13.20:
spring wheat crop was 284,000,000 ing sows at $11@11,54):
bushels, or an increase of 21,000,000 weight sl
bushels over a month previous. This
makes a total wheat crop estimate of
700,000,000 bushels. The Canadian

attle.

when the final estimates are made.

RYE

Damage to the corn crop was con- and
firmed by the official forecast of 2,885,— and below.
000,000 bushels on September 1. Most
of the loss shown was in South Da~
kota. Further injury was done after _ Cattle.
that date, but in the last few days Receipts 1,200.
rains have ended the drouth over a Good
wide area. Receipts of old corn drop- dry fed ...............
ped off last week and buyers have been Best heavy steers, dry-fed
obliged to bid up. The southern states, Handyweight butchers ..
both east and west, are short of feeds Mixed steers and heifers
and have been buying. Some Pacific Handy light butchers
Coast demand appeared at Omaha, one Light butchers ...... .. . . .
sale of a moderate quantity. for export Best cows ..........
via'the Gulf was reported, and indus- Butcher cows .

  
  
 

   

 

 

 

been taking fair amounts. drag a seasonal advance is in order.
The trend of prices for old corn re- , C

cago.——Eggs, miscellaneous -30@
mains uncertain, but the damage to 310; di

timothy are the highest creamery in Detroit sells for 42@45c
Chicago.~Navy, fancy, $6.50; red since the 19.

Average prices per pound in tubs.
as reported by

ulture are $6.95
ast year, $5.45
.10 three years week, with deman

the department of agric
compared with $5.80 I

FEEDS

' Feed prices do not advance. Wheat fieggfiistts Eizgltvivebsk
than sufficient for theplzilgmgfig mg: than a year ago, but present prices 'are er_prices, while cauliflower, tomatoes.
mand for corn feeds is light, but pric- higher than last year. Northern round 8131118011 and Del)

Hay es held unchanged last week.
Detroit.———N0. 1 timothy $24.50@25;

POULTRY AND EGGS

, , was estimated
Egg prices gained last week. Re-

. _ agriculture from the September 1 con- crabapples $1.75@3 bu;
' . celpts are only slowly decreasmg from

No. 1 clover mixed $20@21, NO- 1 week to week, and advi
clover $18@20; wheat and oat straw country indicate co-nditi

heat in the past week h

. _ rains caused a small adcanve in bean beans 35@400 qt:
making a more rapid reduction lately, ' . . P.

gggstllilenoutput frgnli title four markets whites are quoted. at $4.70 per 100 $2@3.50>bu; leaf lettuce 50
Blueberries—Michigan, fancy, 16-qt. ' approac as year. So long

. volume, prices will pro
Pears—Clapp’s Favorite at $1.75@ t h
2; Duchess $1.50@1.75; Sugar pears O ang around the pres
$1.50.

CHICAGO

y’s average; ac- Stock bull
. . big packers are .................
, dOIDg little; bulk of better grade 160- Stockers

that there has been no speClal weak- 225-lb. weights $13.55@13.50; top at
le 240-350-lb.
bulk of pack-
a few strong

..................... 1550 16.00 tions strengthened the market on fruit
3 down. Others 5 @

, majority desirab
The September 1 estimate of the butchers

aughter pigs $1

C
Receipts 9,000. Market on fed steers

igrfoeadgag? $852133 hgra I g ...... P d S tStliawlbgrry $1@2 a bu-
‘ ‘sse's; .-ev- - oun ee .

.gral loads at $7.50@8.75; packers and Light and common ...... 8.00@11.25 W 3 dz) 5

Rye continues to be an “under dog,” eeders strong to higher: h00d Wyom-

eifers at $13; gair and good sheep . .. .

come—backs downward to $14.50

DETROIT

Market steady.
to choice yearlings

$10.50@11.25 mg sows and roughs $11.25@11.50.

    
   

 

   

'cessivenshelling and .
lng. Early reports show pickage of
rties 20@25‘c; checks 20@2Bc;

around eight per can. Demand is
the crop, declining receipts, and the fresh firsts 30@32$§c; ordinary firsts .air in the south but
Detroit—No. 1 red $1.68; No. 2 red broadening demand

pave the way for at 28@29c. Live poultry, hens at 27c;
$1.67; No. 2 white $1.68; No. 2 mixed strength until neW' crop is available springers 260;
$1.67. .

i OATS graded ‘31,@33c. . Live-poultry, broilers
The oats situation is gaining in 28
strength. While the last report show— 21c; roosters 16@17c; geese 16@180;
ed another huge increase in the vis- ducks 24c; turk c. _ ’
primary receipts are
falling off readily, and the rate of ac-
undoubtedly slow

slow elsewhere.

, - WOOL , . ,

Wool trade sentiment is mostly op-
timistic, although there is some, un-
certainty as to whether the large new
clip in ., the southern hemisphere. will
be absorbed by buyers without a mod-
erate decline in the world price level.
However, British and Continental

roosters 17%c; ducks
23¢; geese 17c; turkeys 200.

Detroit-Eggs, fresh, candied and
@30c;"heavy hens 280; light hens

eys 25

care of this fresh. supply, especially

per cent lower than they were ”late

declining. and last fall. Domestic goods trade is

,Receipts are
further sharp reductions in the make

healthy and mills continue to take a
The September 1 crop estimate Was are expected, due to the extremely hot
Chicago‘Sept. 38%c; December at 1,462.000,000 bushels, against 1,387,000,- Weather-

_ , sumption of wool
000.001051031351135Hfigxtzléséglio’iafidyéfgz' 150300 Pounds 01’ 5mm“ butter 18“

SEEDS

than previously anticipated. Pastures pounds, against 165
seed market improved last ve
week. Clover prices are believed by
Beans some dealers to discount the reported less favorable to m
Detroit—(Old) immediate and

shortage, but recent drought has been
prompt shipment $4.40; (New) $4.50 hard on spring seedings.
@455.

fair volume of raw wool frOm dealers.
The Short supply 0f fresh In the first seven months of 1926, 0011-,
butter resulted in the use of nearly by reporting mills

was 304,000,000 pounds. aInst 298,-
week. The outlook for the fall butter 000,000 pounds last year.‘ et imports,
production indicates a lighter supply including carpet woolbwere 210,000,000
,000,000 pounds in
the same period in 1924.

in, production. DETROIT CITY MARKET

(393 on 92-score creamery were; Offerings were liberal and the de-
Prices to the Chicago 45c; New York 47;“. Fresh mand for most stuff was fairly good.
Peaches were in ready demand. Plums
and first-class pears were ready sell-
ers, and good~sized, well-colored ap-

POTATOES ples were cleaned up early.

Potato markets were unsettled last stuff Was taken slowl .
d curtailed by hot were in, but the demand for them was

weather. The movement to market, limited. First-class cantaloupes had
which usually reaches its peak in 00 easy sale, and there was a EOOd de-
tober, when digging of the main crap mand for watermelons. ,. Carrots was
gradually gaining, the leading feature in the vegetable

were much larger lines. Good wax beans brought high-

been badly hurt by drouth and
high temperatures, and conditions are

pers were cheaper.

Whites, U. S. No. 1, were quoted at The demand for celery was fair. Cab~
$1.80@2 per 100 pounds, sacked, at bage, cucumbers and pickles sold
Chicago. A crop of 344,000,000 bushels SIOWIY- .
by the department of Prices were: Apples $1@2.75 a bu;

elderberries

dition.- This compares with a crop of $1@1-25 bu; grapes $3@4-50 bu; cant-
Ces from the 455,000,000 bushels harveste
ons are favor- and a. five
3’. Excessive bushels.
as affected the

d last year, aloupes, No. 1, $1@1.75 bu; pears 50c
—year average of 418,000,000 g3 bu; peaches $2.50@6.50 bu; plums

b @3350 bu; befits 60%6550053r25dogen

unc es; wax eans . . u;

BEANS green beans $1@1.75 bu; carrots $1.50

Fear of damage as a result of heavy @225 bu; cabbage 75C@$1 bu; 111113
cucumbers, slicers

40@500 bu; dills $1@2 bu; l3erk6ns
c u;

prices in the last two days. C H

pounds, f. o. b. Michigan, with dark green onions 60@65c dozen bunches;
up, and storage reds at $8.50. Th '

upon in larger much harm, thus far, however, as the ions $3@5 bu; potatoes $1@1-35 bu; I
bably continue ground was dry enough to soak up round radishes 4M19500 dozen.bunch~
ent level, even much water, and they

Live Stock Market Service

e rains have not done dry onions $1.75@2 biz; pickling on-

, turnips 50c dozen bunches;
spinach 75c@$1 bu; tomatoes 75@90c
bu; celery 35@65c dozen; summer
squash 50c bu; winter squash $1@1.50
bu; eggs, wholesale 38@40c; retail 45
,500; colored springers, retail 30@
. 320; Leghorn springers, retail 28@30_c;
ducks, retail at 30c; dressed poultry,
hens 30@38c; springers 45@50c.

GRAND RAPIDS

Tuesday, September 15.

Common cows ..........

3.00@ 3.50
Canners

2.50@3.75

_ Choice biillé,"d£y-iéd'.'.'.'.' 5.00@ 5.50 With many farm “”1“ gang mm
Receipts 3,000. Market steady to H

a complete body molt, and egg pro-

eavy bolggna bulls gggg 23g duction decreasing sharply, egg prices
""""""" 625(2) 7‘00 in Grand Rapids have swung into an
................ 5:00@ 6-00 advance, retailers now competing for
Milkers and springers. . . .$45.00@90.00 (stocks at 35c per dozen. Sloglgfrkrg;
' veal Calves. weak. Butter-fat was about steady at

0. Market 50c@$1 higher. 460 a pound. Home-canning operas

Feeders

Receipts 39
Best

......... 4.50@11.00 this week. prices ranging: Peaches.

Elbertas and Engles $3(a)3.50 bu; Pro-

and yearlings steady t0 stlong year Sheep and Lambs. 11332322550; Crawfords $3; Kalamazoos
crop estimate was 392,000,300, so that lings m mOSt active demand; gi'ain- Belgfcelpts 2530. Market 1s5te5abdyi iomlgrdso $1 Sue's P$gng58eeldlinpglgmssl
there are 38,000,000 bushe s more in fed steers strong; best weighty steers F _ l“.b ............... $ . @ 6,00 ,

North America than expected a month $16.25; light yearlings air am 5

ago, with a possibility of a further gain _

$13.00@14_50 @125 bu; grapes $2.50@2.75 bu; ap-

6.00@ 750 pies, Wealthy 50@75c bu; Wolf Rivers
ulls and common 2_00@ 4,50 60@75C bu;

bu ; crabapples
Heavy sheep

 

............ 4.50@ 5.00 $1-§5§>1-75 btu; caftalogggsgéfito $1@

' ~ B , . . . . u; we erme ons . . per
as receipts are in excess of milling ings. to feeders and vealegs at $..'75@ “Ck lambs 12 50@14 00 oz; tomatoes 500@$1.25 bu; potatoes
needs and exports are small. Its pres- 8'50’ top firm, vealers up “4131150- HOQS- 900@$1.15 bu; onions $1@1,35 bu; cel-
ent discount of over 60 cents below . Sheep and Lambs. Receipts 4,800. Market steady. ery 15@500 dozen; head lettuce 75c
wheat seems to be about enough. The Receipts 13,000. Market 9“ desir- oughs ................. $ 7 11.00 DOX.‘ cabbage. turnips, bagas and beets
combined yield in countries producing able fat lambs scarce; bulkof western Heavies ................. 12.50@13.00 50@75c bu; wax beans 750G331 b“-
78 per cent of the world crop. outside roughs; few early sales of, fat native Mixed and yorkers ...... 1390 M
of Russia is 36 per cent greater than lambs $15@16; some held higher; feed- Pigs . . . . . . ............. 13.25 WILL STUDY CORN BORER-
last year, ing lambs steady; desirable iat native 'Stags ................... . 8.00

' ewes $6@7.50; better grade of feeding Light lights '
CORN lambs $15.50@16; few weighty lrind

numbers so rapidly in' Monroe

BUFFALO county that a meeting has been

Hogs arranged for altlhfarrtners and 1iiixtenslfon

, peop e in sou eas ern ic an or

Receipts 5,000. Market is closing September 24' meeting at fife post

, steady; heavy $13.75@14; mediumel‘i office in Monroe at 1:00 p. m. From
' @14-50; light weight $14@1‘¥-255 light this point a trip will be made to var- ,.
lights $13.75@14.25; pigs $13.75; pack~ ious fields in the eastern half of Mon— ’

roe county, showing just what the in-
9.75@10.75 _ Cattle. . sect is doing, what the damage is, and
7.75@ 8.75 Receipts 150. Market steady. the proper measures to take to control
6.25@ 7.25 Sheep and‘ Lambs. the increase in number another year.
5.25@ 6.25 ”Receipts 500. Best lambs $16; best Every farmer in southeastern .Michi-
gggg E53133 ewes $5@7.50. ; l _ gan ils invitfitiilitotgttend. A complete
, ». . . ayes. crop oss w n roe e s 131' e t-
4.25@ 4.75 Receipts 300. Tapat $16. y or '3 Y1

 

' ‘Ne-«mpfirzt myrrh Waiter. - .

     

splitting iii thrash-M

. _ . stocks of wool are “low, so that the ,

tThe butitgr Hillarkiai Emalilnsh mla demand may easily broaden to take

_ srong pos on espe e g prc-.

iiigvgnas El: 1319;351:3310 adifiafiisiiu‘fi’t 88. but some reaction from the recent since Australian prices are already 25
he scarcity of rough sharp advance would not be surpris-

feeds is turning buyers to oats, be- mg.

Detroit—No. 2 white at 43c; No. 3 cause 0f their Cheapness-

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the fatherf'and“ other. . 7 ‘ , ,

Crowds were“attracted to this ex-
hibit by the flashes of rednlights on
thesign at the entrance.
were timed so that one flashed every
forty-eight seconds, signifying the
birth of a child in the United States
destined to die before ei ht'years of
age. Another flashed eve y fifty sec-
onds for the birth of a child destined
to go to jail or an asylum because of
abnormality. A small boy of twelve
stood watching this sign, and grasping
the meaning as best his childish mind
could. As the second light flashed he
remarked, “Gosh, there 'goes another
teller into the bughouse.” ~ .

The third light flashed every sixteen
seconds, when a person is born in the
United States. Another light told the
story that every seven and one~half
minutes a high-grade person is born
in the United States who will do ore
ative work. Four per cent of all Amery
icans belong in this class.

We spent some time with the ex-
hibit of the United States Department
of Agriculture. From the extensive
resourCes of the department it was
possible here to find in small compass
why a‘dairyman should use a good
bull in his herd; how he could secure
such a bull at even less outlay than
a scrub may now be costing; what
precautions will bring clean milk; how
it is that purebred dairy cattle have
added a half billion dollars of value to
the dairy herds of the country; the
definiteness with which one gets sat-
isfactory results when he proportions
out good feed in sufficient amounts
to good, cows; the managerial require-
ments for getting the maximum of
feed from the pasture lot; and the
steps necessary to produce good
calves. These charts and graphs and
pictures were thought—provoking, and
no doubt will be helpful in making
good dairymen better, and in lifting
some poor dairyman out of the rats.

 

 

CASH PRIZES FOR STANDARD
GRADE POTATOES.

 

TO bring to the attention of grow-
ers, and to the public, the import-

ance of knowing what constitutes
Michigan’s standard grades for pota-
toes, the State Department of Agricul-
ture is offering, at the West, Michigan
Potato Show at Greenville, October 29-
31, four cash prices—$40, $30, $20 and
$10—as premiums to growers entering
exhibits bf six packages of potatoes,
so prepared as to represent the four
standard grades. The judges of the

.lexhibit will be men familiar with the

handling and grading of potatoes. The
field-run sample must accompany the
exhibit in order that the judges may
know from what material the grading
samples were taken.

 

THUMB TO HAVE POTATO SHOW.

 

TO stimulate the production of a
higher type of potato, the first po-

tato show planned for the Thumb
districtvwill be held at Mayville, Tus-
cola county, November 11-13. The
Michigan State College and the State
Department of Agriculture are cooper-
ating in putting on the show and pro-
gram. The premium list is now being
prepared and approximately $750 will
be offered as prizes. Special attention,
in awarding these prizes, will be given
to table stock. Ernest Haas, of May-
ville, is secretary, and John W. Simms,
of Caro, is manager of this new en-
terprise.

 

CONDITION OF CORN, BEANS AND

These lights,

    

will}. . yield- -h, : ll». maiden“ ' s
any shortened“ as a result.‘ The esti-
mated production is 65.660300 bush-
els, as compared with 43,836,000 last
year; The condition is rated at ninety-
one per cent, six per cent better than
on August 1, twelve per ‘cent above
the average, and tWenty-seven per
cent better than on the same date
last year. The crop is maturing slow-
ly, but will be‘safe from frost damage
Within a. few days.

Potatoes—The outlook improved
during August in the southern half of
the state but declined from fifteen to
twenty points in the northern half.
This reduces the state average four
per cent, which is approximately the
same as the average decline for the
month, hence causes but slight change
in the forecasted production. The
'present prospect is for a crop of 26,-
529,000 bushels, as compared with 38,—
252,000 last year.

Beans—The condition is somewhat
variable. In some sections the pros-
pect is excellent, while in others,
blight and anthracnose have lowered
the yield and quality. Early matured
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hon Sale

M Brookwaior Farm

Friday, Seniemher 25. ’25

To settle the estate of D. C. Goodspeed.
Forty head of high class registered
Jerseys from high producing strains
and from the popular blood lines of
Island breeding. Will sell at your price.
Federal accredited herd No. 79370. For

Tom Dempsey, Sale Manager

Wootervillo, Ohio

SHEEP

    
 

 

     

aroRISALn-s firms. unafgood' " . outlines" . ‘i'dooes' "
land. Write for description: nova rm .
Howell. Mich. _ ~ . .

 

WANTED FARMS

WANTED—POULTRY FARM—Will lease with option
to buy. Must have buildings for not less than one
thousand birds. Home and poultry houses must be in
good repair. Small acreage desirable. Give full de-
tails. including loeatiorn, rental, price. etc. Address
Box 27—B, Michigan Farmer. Detroit, Mich.

MISCELLANEOUS

OLD MONEY WANTED—Will pay Fifty Dollars for
nickle of 1913 with Liberty head. (no Buffalo). We
pay cash premiums for all rare coins. Send 4c for
Large Coin Folder. May mean much profit to you.
Numismatic 00., Dept. M. Ft. Worth. Texas.

 

MAY—Timothy. clover and mixed—also alfalfa. Qual-
ity guaranteed. Ask for delivered prices. Harry D.

Gates Company. Jackson. Mich.

ALL WOOL KNITTING YARN for sale from manu-
facturer at great bargain. Samples free. H. A.
Bartlett, Harmony, Maine.

 

PET STOCK

LAKE LAND FUR EXCHANGE, Salem, Mich. (25

miles west of Detroit). The world’s most famous
breeds of tree. den and trailing hounds. Trained.

partly trained and untrained pups. all ages. Import»

ed. registered and pedigree st0ck. Ship on trial any-

ghere. tfiend for complete description. Photo group
n cen S.

 

 

I SPECIALIZE IN RAISING FERRETS—30 years'
experience. September prices. males, $3.25 each ; feanales.

 

 

owing to extremely dry weather, are
splitting badly. The average condi-
tion on September 1 was eighty-two
per cent, fourteen per cent better than
last year, and eight per cent above the
average. The decline of six per cent
during August was close to the aver-
age, and changes the forecast but
slightly from that of one month ago.
With normal conditions to the end of
the season, the crop ‘will aggregate
7.289.000 bushels.

size and good condition

 

oomph Address.
port. 23 Miles South of

 

FEDERAL CROP REPORT. Funmss. Nashville, Mic

 

 

HE general crop situation shows
no improvement since last month,
according to the report issued by
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture. Taking all crops together

is offering for sale a few

of the right fur bearing kind.

400 BREEDING' EWES

For sale. 1 to 5 years old. mostly black-faced. good

Postal address, A L M 0N D

B. CHAPMAN &. SON. South Rockwood. Mich. Tel-
Rockweod.

Mich. Telephone New-

Detroit.

' th P lled and Horned for
Delame Rams .35. °

HOUSEMAN BROS.. R. 4. Albion, Mich.

DELAINE RAMS

sell, Box 20. Wakeman, Ohlo.

Breeding Ewes For Sale

Come and see them.
free. F. H. Rus-

h & Shropshires. V. B.

W
The Old Reliable Angus Home Stock
Farm, of Davison, Mich.

choice Karakule ram lambs
Use a Karakuule on

fine ones. Photos

Good large Dalalnes

$3.50 each. One dozen. $36. Yearling females. spe-
cial rat. catchers $5.00 each. Yearling males 84.00
Will ship C O. D. Instruction book free. Levi
Fnrnsvvorth, New London. Ohio.

 

FOR SALE—Wolf gray police pups. whelped May
30th from imported sire. Beautiful specimens, priced
low. Homestead Kennels. Saranac. Mich.

 

FERRETS—Your choice of young or old. white or

 

brown. Instruction book free. Thos. Sellars. New
London. Ohio.
HUNDRED HUNTING HOUNDS cheap. Fur finders.

Catalogue. Kasknskennels, F 183. Herrick. Ill.

 

AIREDALE PUPPIES—Pedigreed. F'

dogs.
Cheap. Wm. C. Brown. R. 2.

ins farm
Battle Creek. Mich.

 

GERMAN POLICE PUPS FOR SALE—Prices reason—
able. Dr. . E. Bergman. Cassopolis, Mich.

l’EDIGREED WHITE
prices. John Teller.

 

COLLIE PUPPIES, Farmers'
Henderson. Mich.

 

FOR SALE—Black & tan hounds, males $10. females

 

the outlook is still for yields per acre
substantially below the average of re-
cent years.

 

During August, corn suffered from

drouth in the south, and in much of Karakules For Sale 1

$500.00 for bunch. L.

1-year ram. 1 2-year ram.
R. Kunoy, Adrian. Mich.

 

the corn belt. There was some im-

provement'elsewhere, but the forecast Merino {3:}; 1:31:11? 53% gaggslfungufifig:
for the United States has been reduc- wme s. H. Sanders. R. No. 2, Ashtabula, Ohio.

 

ed about two per cent. The present
forecast is for nearly- 2,900,000,000
bushels, or about an average crop.

OXFORDS

MANN, Dan-ville, Mich.

rams.

yearlings and ram
lambs. H. W

Registered.

 

The bean crop is expected to be the __
largest since 1914. very large in- 0X33) RAMS 25
crease was planted and a fairly good or phone. Wm-
yield is expected. Few other crops
are up to their usual average. The For Sale
potato crop is estimated at 344,000,000

to sell. Shipped on approval.
Van Sickle,

the best.
Write
M ioh.

years" breeding.
Dockerville.

Oxford yearlings and ram lambs.
registered. The kind that please
Geo. T. Abbott, Palms, Mich. Tel.

Deckerville. 78-3.

 

bushels, which would be the smallest
crop since 1919.

 

m

E 8 Etc—Small consignments from
gg 7 producers in your territory bring
very attractive prices NOW. Prompt re-
turns always. Refer to Dun or Bradstreet.
Ship us your next case. ZENITH BUT-
TER ll EGG C0.. ”0 Dunne 81., New York. N. Y.

 

 

R. 2. Greenville, Mich.

One 2-yr. Wardwell stuck
priced right. 0. Chapman

 

' . fl 1
Rambouillet Rams at?” my: 31“"
From ram shearing thirty pounds. H. W.
’Phone Gratian. Mich.

SHROPSH IRE RAMS

offers

IWIII [an SIOCk Farm Rams. one 3-yr., also 5 year-

yearlings.
registered.
H A RT,

ram. Year-lingo and lambs.
&. Son. 80. Rockwood, Mich.

registered Shropshire

 

 

HUGS lings. W. E. JENKS, Balding. Michigan.
‘ ' 150 head. mixed ages
. nice I I and fall B Breedmg;EW¢8 For Sale and Ores-(11118. $7.00
IIaIIIIISIIII'BS FM Sale Choice bred (Illa. 12th ,u'": per head. 0. A. Palmer. Balding. Michigan.

 

JOHN W. SNYDER. R. 4. St. Johns. Mloh.

 

yearling rams.

 

Flock established 1890.

40 head registered yearling Shropshire owes. a few
also ewe and ram lambs.

Quality
0. LEMON

 

native ewes. Turn your dead lamb loss to profit. $7.00, Harold Blackmer. Butternut Mich
Ask us; we will tell you how. ' '
' Hampshire Yearling Rams. Call TOBACCO
“Biggtefieci hOl' w'il'ite CLA’RI: “AME RANCH.
on r n ' .. rl o , ana er.
a ° ' '° c 3 °' ' ° LOOK HERE! Guaranteed, fragrant. mellow, dd).
2 1—year ewes, 1 ewe lamb, homespun tobacco. Five pounds chewing. 31.50;

smoking. $1.25. Samples. 10c. Clark’s River Plan-

tation. 190. Hazel, Kentucky.

HOMESPUN TOBACCO—Chewing flve lbs. $1.50: ten
$2.50; smoking rive lbs., $1.25; ten, $2; cigars. $2
for 50, guaranteed. pay when received. pipe free.
Roy Carlton, Maxon Mills, Kentucky.

LEAF TOBACCO—Chewing. 5 lbs.. $1.50; ton, $2.50:
smoking, 5 lbs.. $1.25: ten, $2. Guaranteed. Pay
when received. Pipe free. Albert Ford, l‘aducah. Ky.

IIOMESI’UN TOBACCO. Chewing 5 lbs. $1.50: 10.
$2.50. Smoking 5. $1.25: 10. $2. Mild 10. $1.50.
l'ay when received. F. Gupton. Bardwell, Kentucky.

 

 

 

 

 

POULTRY

PURE 200—EGG STRAIN White Rock Cookerels. 83
up. Fully guarantwd. Sent on approval. Excep-
tional values for early orders. Woodsmad Place.
Buchanan. Mich.

 

 

COCKERELS—Puhets: Rocks. Reds. Leghorns. Tur-
keys. Geese and Ducks. Send for prices. State
Farms Association. Kalamazoo. Mich. I

 

TANCRED \VHITE LEGHORNS. Bufl' Orpingtons.
Barred Rooks. State Fair Winners. Fenner Bailey.
Montgomery, Mich.

 

SHIP US YOUR FAT HENS and fresh eggs ova!
Tuesday. Write for a quotation. East Coast Poultry
00.. 1360 Division St... Detroit. Mich.

500 SINGLE COMB White Leghorn hens,
John Iiass, Bettendorf, Iowa. bullets.

S.‘ C. BUFF LEGHORN COCKEBELB—Pricei reason
able. Willard Webster, Bath, Mich. ‘

 

 

HORSES rash: tat...
MFWPRS MTflETLOQim The Maple: Shropshires

million! of me no «unity. International a. sum “5° 3'93- C- R- LEI-A”

Fair prize winners. If your locality is in need of a
good Stallion, you can easily scours one on our
lotion—service fee plan. FRED 6.

bum" Shropshires
STEVENS 00.. Inc., Breckenridge, Mich.

HER. R. No. 4,

 

 

Evari.

the wooly type.
35 ram lambs.

One 2—yr. stock ram,
yearlings and ram lambs.
D. R. 5. Ann Arbor, Mich.

15 yearlings,
DAN BOO-
Mich.

 

Small advertisements bring best results under classified headings.

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

 

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

This classified advertising department is established for the convenience of Michigan farmers.
' Try it for want ads and for adver—
tising. miscellaneous articles for sale or exchange. Poultry adiertising will be run in this department

Rates 8 cents a word, each insertion, on orders for less than four hiseu'tione; for four or more

 

 

POTATOES. consecutive insertions 6 cents a word. Count as a word each abbreviations. initial or number. No
dlsplay type or illustrations admitted. Remittances must accompany order. _ . _
—— LIVB stock advertising has a separate department and is not accepted as classified. Minimum
'I‘HE weather during August was ”an" '0 "or "
nearly ideal throughout the sough- o r
ern half of the state for t e 3° our FOlfl' (ZIIAMI’AIGN ('OUN’I‘Y. OHIO. 154 acres. Near
' 10 30-80 33-40 $6.24 Urbma. about 35 acres rich red clay loam. undei-laid
growth and develoDment Of all field 88 1.64 6.48 with gravel: balance black loam. Level with natural
crops. Hay and pastures made degld— ii: 3.3 gramagg. Good was? Swen—mom gousecmd £2;
- ' ‘ - . tion. ank barn 4 x 0, good enccs. ear ‘entra '1
ed gains. . Exceedlngly dry weat er 3-36 7.20 school. Just right for stock or dairy farm. A bar-
prevailed III the Upper Penlnsula‘ and 3-60 1.44 gain for someone at $125 per acre. Paul E. Nollen.
northern portion of the Southern Pe- 3.3; n: Springfield. 0.
nin'sula. which caused ad mtalrked de— 4:” ‘16
terioration ”1 potatoes an 0 er grow- {:3 8-40 FARM, 120 ACRES, located on improved highway.
111g CI‘OpS. In that reglon’ the ralnfall 5'04 2% 7 miles from city of 40,000; 15 acres timber: first-
ranges from eight to twelve inches 5:28 9-" class pasture. running water; 2 orchards: loi-room
11 113.1 avera 8 while in ‘52 9.36 house, new hardwood floors, furnace; 2 barns. chicken
below t e seaso _ g . _ 5-” - house. garage; 40 loads hay, 12 acres oats, 8 com.
the southern counties the defic1ency (00 3‘22 5 buckwheat; .13 cows, team. all farm unplinncnts;
since January 1 ranges from three to ' - iéidmgidfihaihifi‘11ttm‘f‘i‘iéinf 513m? ci'cahiery:
five inches, according to Ellie Sep‘t‘enii- REAL ESTATE - - . . . .
her report issued by L. W itney a -

kins, commissioner of agriculture, and
Verne H. Church, United States Agri-
cultural Statistician. The fruit crops
are light, although apples and pears
made some improvement during the
month.

Corn—The crop is in good condi—
tion throughout the southern half of
the state although, in some sections,
the effect of dry weather was becom-
ing apparent-”at the close of the month.
There is'a heavy growth of fodder,

 

 

 

 

 

FLORIDA—It is summer time the year round in
Florida. St.
a. pleasant place in which to live.
tial. progressive. fast growing and beautiful section of
Florida. Propert
are being made. and where homes are being built. is
a safe investment that will yield good returns. I
represent an old established company and sell lots
within the city limits of St. Petersburg where the
city is building new schools. roads and Street Railway
lines. Bank references as to financial standing and
business methods of company, sent on request. H.
Thorbum.
Florida.

WAN TED—To
{.11 delivery.

 

 

 

 

GREENE COUNTY. OHIO.
clay loam underlaid with
good wells
Delco lighting system.
Barn 40x80, well equipped
school facilities. only two

Petersburg, “The. Sunshine City." is

It is a substan—
y bought where city improvements

versi ty.
desirable property.

. Modern seven-room house, hot water heat;
Beautiful lawn and orchard.

Price $130 per acre not. a low price for this
Paul E. Nollen. Springfield, 0.

140 acres. Level. yellow
Havel. well drained. Two

with convenient-es. Good
miles from Antioch Uni-

 

eitheragriculture or stock
to 6 miles from railroad
tracts of 160. 240. 360. 64
Write or come at once.
Mich.

243 2nd Avenue North. St. Petersburg.

hear from owner of farm for sale. for
0. Harley. Baldwin. .Wls.

 

OUR LOSS~YOUR OPPORTUNITY—4000 acres of
fine cut-over lands in Gladwln Co., Mich. ideal for

U. G. Reynolds. Gladwin.

grazing on good roads. 4
and market. Will sell in
0 acres at $ .00 per acre.

BABY CHICKS

SUPERIOR CHICKS—90 up. 13 varieties.
layers. Delivery guaranteed. Postpaid.
ences. Catalogue Free. Superior Hatchery. Boa 858.
Windsor. Mo.

SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK

SEED WHEAT FOR SALE—Michigan No. I, a heavy
yielding bcardless red wheat, and American Banner.
8. beardless white variety,- both produced under the
finest conditions, and thoroughly cleaned and graded.
We are the largest growers of wheat in the state.
and use the best seed obtainable. Write at once for
prices. Gotfredson Farms. Ypsilanti, Mich.

ALSIICE AND TIMOTHY MIXED SEED, $4.95 bush«

 

 

 

 

cl. Alfalfa. cloyers. timothy. rye, barley, native
seeds. “rite for price list. Fulghum Seed CO..
Lorain, Ohio.

 

REGISTERED American
high yielding white variety.
4. Jackson, Mich.

Banner Seed Wheat. 0
Fairview Farm. B. No.

AGENTS WANTED

MICHIGAN MEN with sales ability and well known
through counLy, can make large income weekly selling
guaranteed Motor and Tractor Oil in drums and half-
drums on thirtyday terms to farmers and preferred
dealers. Must have auto. State ago. Will arrange
interview. We ship direct from nearby branches.
Divmion Manager, LOck Box 135, Saginaw, Mich.

EASY TO SELL GROCERIES. Paints. Lubricating
0115, from samples to consumers in towns and coun~
try, Prices meet all competition. N0 capital or ex—
perience ncyessary. Profitable, steady work. Com-
mission advanced. Satisfaction guaranteed; 63 years
in business. Write Loxerin & Browne Co.. Whole~
sale Greccrs. 1770 So. State St. Chicago. Ill.

FREE TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. Get tli

sponslble farmers to go with you to lung-:00“

state approved lands. Opportunity for one good man

in each community to join largest loud arm-

ization in U. 8. Write for details. Human has.

1195 Transportation Bldg., Chicago, Ill.
new Household

AGENTS~Our Device

washes and dries windows. sweeps. cleans walls.

scrubs, mops. Coats less than brooms. Over half

profit. Wflte Harper Brush Works 173 3rd St"
owa.

Fairfleld.

A Michigan FarmerdLinel
Gets Results. Try One.

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Added Beauty and U tility—
Closed Cars In Colors—
No Increase In Price . ~ . .-

All-steel bodies onTudor
Sedan, Coupe and open
cars. Bodies and chassis
both lowered. Larger,
more attractive fenders,
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transmission and rear axle
brakes on all types. One-
piece ventilating wind-
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double ventilating type
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Opening with all dOOrs on
Touring car and Run-

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